While depressing the brake pedal, the steering wheel started to vibrate intensely. Was at approx. 60 MPH. Took car to dealership, they said the pads and rotor were bad. This car only has approx. 30k miles. This is fast wear on brakes. This is a serious safety problem. The brakes are slow to grab.
2007 Ford Focus brakes complaints
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Applied brakes, hit snowy spot on road, brakes locked up, anti lock did not work. Hit curb. Anti lock brakes seems to work only on certain situations. Contacted dealer. Dealer said anti lock brakes don't work on snow.
I wear a size 13 shoe & occasionally went I depress the brakes my shoe also engages the gas pedal. 2007 ford focus.
I was passing a car and just completed the pass (approx. Speed was 60 MPH), when the back right tire locked up. This caused me to go into on coming traffic. I then went off the road and flipped end over end once and barrell rolled three times. The car was totaled. I had minor injuries. Witnesses stopped and told police and fire personnel, that after I had passed them, the right rear tire locked up and spun me out of control. The car landed on its driver side. During the spin as I applied the brakes to regain control of the vehicle it felt as if the vehicle was trying to accelerate. The airbags never deployed. My concerns are the braking system, tires, air bags, and wheel bearings. This crash should not have happened, this is an obvious problem for ford.
I have two problems with design flaws in my 2007 ford focus sse: (1) .because of where the door lock is located, just above the door handles (front driver and passenger sides) all the doors will lock at times and you don't realize it when you open, get out, then close the door. Most often in situations where you have left the motor running with the key now locked inside. This happens because of coming in contact with this lock with your fingers or hand while opening the door with the handle. This has occurred on several occasions despite now knowing what causes the problem. This is a complete nuisance and dangerous if children would happen to be left in the car with the engine running and the doors locked and no second key on hand. (2). The second problem I have with the automobile is I have experienced the "audi effect" where the car accelerates on occasion when braking. This I also ascribe to a design flaw: the brake pedal and gas pedal are placed too close together and at a relative close height to one another. After taking the defensive position, in a potential braking situation, if you have to depress the brake quickly and hard, the car accelerates. This takes you completely by suprise and it takes time to respond. I have been driving the same way for 45 years, with many vehicles, and this is the first time I have experienced this problem. Luckily the car sat most of the winter because of the problem I described previously and no one had this experience on snow covered or icy roads. I brought this up at the end of april in a visit to the dealer and was told to file a complaint by service manager steve lovalvo. I want to bring both of these defects to your attention because I feel that I have leased a lemon that has problems that cannot be serviced by the dealership and presents potential problems for many other drivers also.
I came home and parked my focus as usual. I put the car in neutral as always and engaged the emergency brake. When I got up the next morning and went outside, my car had rolled into a light pole at my house and done considerable damage to the driver's door. The emergency brake was still engaged. I had just gotten my car the day before from the repair shop so all was in working order with this vehicle. I am concerned about the emergency brake system. I have had this car for 9 months and this is the first time this has happened and I always do the same thing each day.
Had brake failure, resulted in accident, hit a pickup truck and approximately 35 MPH, airbag failed to deploy. However, the light came on and it did require a switch to be replaced which cost me a couple hundred dollars.
November 19th, attempted to brake, brakes went to floor, I hit a pickup. Requested dealer check brake system, they did a test drive said brakes are fine. November 30th, driving on highway, went to stop noticed brakes were mushy, not same tension as usual but car did brake. December 5th, making right hand turn to get on freeway, tapped brakes, brakes did not work, tapped again they worked.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 ford focus. The contact hears metal grinding from the front driver side when making a left turn. He stated that the brakes have been replaced twice, but are still squeaking. When he releases the clutch and shifts into neutral, he hears a knocking sound. The contact stated that the engine makes a ticking sound as if it will explode. The dealer has been unsuccessful in diagnosing and repairing all of these failures. The repairs usually last approximately 3-4 weeks before the failures recur. The contact requested that the dealer replace his vehicle with a new vehicle. The speed was unknown. The current mileage was 14,701 and failure mileage was 300.
Was driving in good weather conditions and 2007 ford focus began to veer to the left and right out of control - I had no control over the steering or brakes is was as if the car went on auto pilot and started driving itself. After about twenty seconds of rocking left and right in the road the car made a sharp right and left the highway hit and flipped twice with my daughter and myself inside - fortunately we are both still alive the 2007 ford focus is totaled.
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