2010 Ford Focus: key fob or push-button start problems

Filed Nov 16, 2018 · Body, Electrical · 200,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford focus. While the vehicle was stationary and the contact was inside the vehicle, all four doors would not unlock. The contact stated that the key fobik could not unlock the doors and the driver side door would not open when prompted. The contact stated that the front passenger side door finally opened with the key fobik. The contact was able to climb out of the vehicle. In addition, the contact stated that the rear passenger door had a history of becoming stuck and remained locked after the contact exited the vehicle. A dealer was not made aware of the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the federal safety agency. The failure mileage was approximately 200,000.

Filed Mar 20, 2014 · Locks · 78,000 miles · VA

My car locks fine, but sometimes different doors will not unlock. It started with the driver's side rear door, one day it just wouldn't unlock with the key fob or manual. It has now done this with all the doors except the driver door. My concern is that when this happens, whichever door it is cannot be opened, so what happens if I'm either locked out of my vehicle or I'm locked in during a crash?

Filed May 10, 2013 · Body, Locks · 58,000 miles · KS

Rear doors will not lock or unlock. Started out intermittent problem, now they are permanently shut and locked. Will not respond to key fob or power lock button. Unable to pull up the manual locking knob; it's frozen in place. Basically the rear seat is now useless as I can't access it.

Filed Apr 9, 2012 · Electrical, Locks · 700 miles · OR

All but the driver's door would not unlock. I tried the inside door latch, the outside door latch, key fob, and even tried to unlock with the key from the outside. Car was taken to ford dealer twice when getting there everything worked fine third time it would not unlock for them they replaced door lock latch 'actuator assembly and door lock switch assembly. Worked fine for about a week and started doing the same thing called and got appointment for that friday got ready to take in and they started working again and have worked since but still concerned about this happening and us not being able to get out of the car period.

Filed Sep 26, 2011 · Electrical, Locks · 38,000 miles · TX

I was locked in my own car! The driver's side door would not unlock. I tried the inside door latch, the outside door latch, key fob, and even tried to unlock with the key from the outside. I had friends trying to help me get the door unlocked, with no luck. I had to crawl out the passenger side of the car. After letting the car sit of over an hour, the door would finally unlock. The dealer is saying it is the actuator motor going out, cost for the motor alone is $400. That does not include the labor to install it. I think it is ridiculous that an electrical motor would go out with only 38000 miles on it. From what I have read, there most certainly should be a recall. Hopefully it will not require someone getting trapped in a car and loosing their life for that to happen.

Filed Sep 1, 2011 · Locks · MO

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford focus. The contact stated that all four doors exhibited failures when unlocking the vehicle using the key fob and manually. The contact had taken the vehicle to the dealer twice and the dealer was able to get the doors opened by replacing the linkage. The contact believed the failure to be a manufacturing defect. The contact had to crawl through the window in order to enter the vehicle. The failure mileage was 10,900. The right and left rear doors would no longer open; not even manually. Updated 09/29/11 updated 9/27/11 *cn ford informed the consumer, they were not responsible for any repairs, due to the fact the consumer lives on a gravel road and dirt was getting inside the door locks. They claimed it was an environmental issue. Updated 10/14/11.*jb updated 11/07/11 *bf the consumer stated he/she did not crawl through the window. Ford told the consumer to crawl through the window in the event of an accident. The consumer declined due to being disabled. The consumer stated the failure mileage was before 10,900. Updated 06/13/2012 *js updated 06/15/12 updated 06/21/12 ... Updated 08/15/12 *bf updated 08/20/12 *bf updated 08/20/2012 *js the consumer stated the right rear door could not be unlocked manually or by remote. Updated 08/21/12 updated 08/11/12 *bf updated 09/17/2012 *js the consumer stated the left rear door and right rear door would not unlock manually or with the remote. Updated 09/24/12 updated 10/29/14