Consumer called complaining about having fuel pump problems. Stated that has contacted the dealer, and the dealer stated that they had a problem with that on some vewhicles, but thee was no recall. So consumer would have to pay for the repairs out of his own pocket.
2000 Ford Focus fuel system complaints
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After driving to work and parking in the parking garage, went inside for about 20 minutes. Came back out to car to find a puddle of gasoline which had leaked from the fuel tank. A very dangerous fire hazard. The exhaust system was extremely hot and fuel had leaked all over it. Had to have the vehicke towed to the repair garage.. The problem ended up being that the cheap plastic fuel line quick-connector coming from the fuel pump to the fuel line had broken, causing the fuel line to come apart from the fuel pump, allowing fuel to spray all over the tank and exposed parts under the vehicle as well as the concrete garage floor. A spark or lit cigarette butt would have been disastrous. Fortunately a fire or explosion did not occur or their surely would have been fatalities.
On 7/5/2003 while driving at 85 MPH on the highway engine stalled. The vehicle had this same problem last year ,and the fuel pump was defective. The vehicle will be taken to the dealer on 7/8/2003.
Nov of 2002 took to dealer the car was purchased from, told them it was running sluggish and the gas guage didn't always register. Told nothing wrong, could not dulpiate problem. Took to neighborhood dealer for same problem, replace fuel filter. Had all this work done before warranty expired in feb 2003. Never was notified about possible fuel pump. I feel this was left out so the ford deaership and company didn't have to cover this part. I have had problems with both locate dealership on getting repairs completed. Having to return the car two or three times to one dealers. I have filed complaints about the leak of service with ford. My milage is 39,400, I have my service done regularly by ford. Went to take my daughter to school on june 27th,2003. My car started then died, them wouldn't start again for about 30 minutes. Drove to dealer very sluggish. I have spoke to ford about paying for the repairs with no luck. Their service managers was the one who bought it to my attention this was a common problem with the focus. Then I starting to investigate it myself and his right. He told me of about 10 fuel pumps his replaced in less then 2 months. I personally found other focus owners with the same problem. Ford needs to recall fuel pump and make this car safe.
I'm losing power while driving, worse while making turns. It occasionally stalls out, mostly while making hard right turns. I talked with someone in the service dept. Of a ford dealership and she says it's the fuel pump which will cost $480. She also stated that there have been a lot of problems with them. I have found that many focus owners are having the same problem and ford is aware of it, but still they have made no recalls.
While driving vehicle started to leak fuel in the engine, then, vehicle caught on fire. As a result vehicle was totaled. Consumer states ford motor company refuses to tell her what exactly happened. Dealer notified.
I have a 2000 ford focus w/ 2.0 zetec engine that started having problems in may of 2002 when I was driving home on the expressway. Symptoms included the car lurching in higher rpms (necessary to maintain speed) and eventually the car was unable to maintain 55 MPH and stalled on the expressway. It started up half an hour later, and I was able to limp home at 50 MPH on the e-way. That problem disappeared after a week, and showed no signs of coming back until the next time I made a long car trip, when it did the same thing, but thankfully did not stall. The car continued to do this, and ford dealers never did find anything wrong with the car, although one dealer charged me $400 to drain and clean the tank because of debris in the tank causing the car to stall on right turns. If not for the focaljet.com website, I would be stuck with an out-of-warranty defective car that ford flatly refused to cover during the warranty, but was happy to split the cost 50-50 one day after the warranty ended. After making another long trip and having the car sputtering at 4000 rpms, I dropped the fuel tank, removed 2 clogged filters from inside the gas tank fuel-sending unit, and the car has worked perfectly since then. I now have more power, smoother power delivery, no stalling or stumbling on the e-way or on right-hand turns, and the car no longer hesitates with the A/C on. These clogged filters have cost me countless hours, trips to the dealer, and $400 when the fix is just to let the external (and user-serviceable) fuel filter do its job. I have kept the 2 filters that I removed and taken pictures of the fuel canister that contained the clogged filters, in case there is any need to investigate them.
Focus has around 60,000 miles. But now all of a sudden the motor will sputter after you start the car and just die out. I had one of the egr sensor replace its located on the firewall and also I had an oil change and just installed new spark plugs, wires, air filter and fuel filter and I had a friend have a quick look at the fuel rail and the vacuum hose they look fine. I here that the fuel pump is the issue with late model focus. I just notice when parking the car backwards at an incline in the driveway, it would start but rev-up very high for about 5-10 seconds and still die out. My next step is to have obd ii test done at aaa to see if they can help out, if not my last choice is ford but I rather not the hell them ford, well my point is I also have acura 90 with 183,000 miles and not even close to the repairs.
Dealer replaced on september 2002 the fuel pump because the fuel rail was leaking. In june vehicle has been twice at the dealer with the same problem.
Fuel pump failed in my 2000 ford focus. The pump went out as I was coming to a stop causing the car to stall and the power steering to go off. I was unable to steer, and was fortunate that there was a red light so I could restart the vehicle. This was the fourth time that happened.
Was driving south on i44 when fuel pump quit working. Car stalled on highway going 75 MPH. I pulled over to the shoulder as soon as possible. There could of been a wreck if there was more traffic or no shoulder. Very dangerous.
2000 ford focus fuel pump problems. I think that this is something that ford needs to recall. The amount of people that are having to pay ridiculous amounts of money to fix this is stupid. I know that ford is a better company than this and I believe that they need to show their true colors and step up to the plate and recall this part on the focuses. It's also a serious safety issue as well. The car will just die when you round a corner. I don't think that's exactly safe. I can't see paying almost 500.00 to have something replaced that's happening on so many cars. I could see paying that money if it was a scarce problem, but it's not. Every focus owner that I know has had to replace the fuel pump at least once. Some have had to do it 2 or 3 times. This needs to be a recall and ford knows it.
When turning right it seems the fuel pump stops working.
Engine cutting out on 2000 ford focus while driving.
When I started my car to go home from work I started to smell gas. I didn't think much of it untill I got home. When I turned the car off, I lifted the hood thinking there would be a problem in there. I could here what sounded like something boiling. Then I walked around the car untill I got to the gas tank. Thats where I could really smell the gas. I looked under the car and there was gas dripping from the gas tank. My car only has 24000 miles on it, and only a month out of warranty. So I had the car towed to a local garage thinking that maybe it was just a crack in the fuel line. What was found out is my car has a plastic gas tank and has broken at the seams. The boiling noise I heard was the gas spitting on the exhaust. The mechanic said I was lucky that the car did not catch on fire. So I called ford to see what they could do since it was obvious that the gas tank was faulty. They said they would not do anything untill I got the car to my ford service station. I will have to call them and see what they will have to say. I hope I don't have to pay for fords mistake. How can they expect a plastic gas tank to last, when mine has busted at only 24000 miles.
I am an owner of a 2000 ford focus that has been to the dealer for 10 problems/recalls. The latest and my major concern is my daughter was driving down the road at a very low speed just after leaving a parking lot she hit a very small pothole and immediately the car stalled. Luckly a gentleman stopped and helped her get the car off the side. We have 40k miles on the car. We had the car towed to victory ford in lagrange ga. The car was there from may 10-may 23 finally repaired at a cost of 670.00. My concern is that I have heard and read of hundreds if not thousands of these fuel pump failures and after many nice but ineffective answers from ford I feel that someone will be injured seriously or die due to these faulty and possibly dangerous fuel systems. Also my dealership previously worked on this fuel system under warranty. After filling the gas tank the only way it registered was after slamming the car doors. That was repaired it seems.
The vehicle stalled without warning. The dealer stated the fuel pump failed.
The dealership refused to honor the recall for the pinch bolt 02 v 289 000 due to a discrepancy. *jb the steering wheel started to vibrate and the wheel shook. The vehicle was taken in for the recall, but the consumer was told that there was another problem which was with the oil.
2000 ford focus zx3 persistent fuel pump issues. Stalling under hard right turns. Long turnover and starting times.
My 2000 ford focus with 45,000 miles on it had been experiencing dramatic hesitation problems around highway exit curves/corners. This happened about 4 separate times, with it finally just stalling and breaking down the last time. Thank god the cars behind me were not speeding and didn't crash into my rear end. I was able to roll safely a few feet away to a small shoulder area. I turned the car off and waited a second before starting it again. It started right up with no problem. Also a few weeks earlier the car wouldn't start one morning. I had it towed to my local ford dealer, who said it simply needed transmission fluid, they added it and it started up. But in the next two weeks is when it began hesitating on curves and feeling like it was going to cut off. But it had happened once prior to that, it hesitated after the curve and wouldn't accelerate even though I was stepping on the gas. When I took it back to ford, they did a full inspection and told me I needed a new fuel delivery module, a new fuel filter and injection cleaning (the latter 2 being regular maintenance). But this fuel delivery module was major. And my extended warranty (not through ford, but with gm major guard) almost didn't cover it, but decided to cover most of it. The ford dealer told me that the cause for the fuel delivery module going bad was just basic wear and tear over time. I find this hard to believe, especially after reading other customer's complaints of the same problem on this web site and an article on www.cartalks.cars.com. Please recommend to ford to address this problem before someone is seriously injured.
60000 miles on car, 4 sets of tires, 7 recalls, defect in gas tank cover filler, 2 sets of brakes, rear alignment not adjustable (advised by independent shop) and horrible shaking at highway speeds after all this. Dealer has been no help with tire problem. Never buying a ford again.
Car stalling during right hand turns.
When the gas tank was half full the vehicle would stall on right turns and hills.
While driving the vehicle stalled. The dealer stated that the problem was due to fuel injector failure. *nlm
While driving up hill with less than a quarter tank of gas the engine lost. When the accelerator was pressed the vehicle reacted like it was out of gas.
Loss of power, stalling when fuel tank is less than one quarter full. According to ford service employee this results from problems with either fuel pump or fuel filter(due to build up of sludge and/or debris in fuel tank.
Engine stalls or shudders when fuel level reaches a quarter of a tank.
The seal on windshield came off and there was a noise in the front end of the vehicle. *ak the engine stalled, and the vehicle experienced a fuel system problem.
The vehicle experienced problems with the wiring, transmission-(jump out of gear), fuel gauge level is inoperative, and the motor would race. The shifter and cable was removed, and the center console was removed to replace the shifter assembly. The dealer could not duplicate the fuel gauge problem. Mr scc
Problems with transmission / sway control arms have been replaced. Electronic fuel pump replaced. Mr
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