2003 Ford Focus: broken coil spring

Filed May 29, 2013 · Suspension · 132,000 miles · MI

Right front coil spring broke. While checking consumer reviews on an auto parts website for a replacement, others have had the same spring failure.

Filed May 1, 2013 · Steering, Suspension · MA

I started the car in the drive, put it in reverse, began to back up and heard a loud clunk. After some investigation, my husband (a former auto mechanic) found that the front coil spring on the driver's side was broken, and the tire was at risk of damage/potentially damaged. I am very, very glad this did not happen while I was driving on the road.

Filed Mar 14, 2013 · Suspension · 41,000 miles · MA

Right side coil spring broke, cut into tire. Ford will not fix, they know the focus spring breaks tsb expired sept 2012 ( I called ford!); don't drive these cars. Replace your springs first.

Filed Jul 2, 2012 · Suspension, Tires · 90,000 miles · MI

I was driving my 2003 ford focus on the road when this incident happened. Suddenly I heard a crash sound in the right front side of my vehicle. I felt there was a force on the right front side tire. Then I noticed black smokes behind my car and then I stopped. I called aaa to have roadside assistant. The aaa guy came and checked my car and told me the coil spring was broken and the broken part damaged my tire too. I found there was a recall for the coil spring on 2000-2003 focus then I called a local ford dealer to get it fixed. However, the local ford dealer told me my focus was not eligible for the recall. Clearly this is the fault of ford. The aaa guy told me if this happened on the freeway, I would probably be killed. I urged the federal safety agency to contact ford about this issue before this actually killed lots of people. I also urged ford to place a recall to check all the coil spring on all cars they make to make sure this part has no problems.

Filed Dec 19, 2010 · Suspension · 150,100 miles · IL

I was turning and I heard a very loud snap! My car then began to pop extremely loud everytime I turned. It turned out to be a snapped front coil spring. This is very dangerous because the spring could very easily have ripped into the tire causing a "blow out" which leads to accidents in many occasions!! The more I talk about it, the more people who say they have had the same thing happened on their focus!

Filed Feb 24, 2010 · Suspension · 21,500 miles · 00

The front passenger suspension spring snapped causing a blow out of the tire on my 03 ford focus, vehicle was taken to dealership who advised that the recall for this problem on this vehicle was no longer in effect as the vehicle was manufactured some 3 months after the close out of the re-call.

Filed Jul 15, 2008 · Suspension · 79,595 miles · MN

Failure of front right-side oem coil spring due to excessive corrosion under rubber sleeve on coil spring. Coil spring was replaced.

Filed Jul 1, 2008 · Suspension · 79,370 miles · KY

Driving under normal conditions at 45 MPH I heard a pop followed by a grinding noise from the front passenger side wheel. I immediately pulled over to find my car leaning noticeably to the front passenger side. Car was towed to ford dealership and I was told that both front coil springs as well as the front right tire needed replaced due to coil spring corrosion and resulting failure of the front right coil spring.