2014 Ford Focus: pulls to one side

Filed Apr 29, 2021 · Steering · 140,000 miles · MI

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 ford focus. The contact stated while driving 55 MPH, the vehicle started pulling to the left. The contact manually pulled the steering to the center to correct the issue and pulled over to the side of the road. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact drove the vehicle slowly in manual steering mode to his girlfriend's residence. The vehicle was then towed to an independent mechanic to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the rack and pinion unit needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 140,000.

Filed Jun 17, 2020 · Acceleration, Fuel system · TX

While driving on highway my RPM will fluctuate up and down. Rpm's will raise high while my speed doesn't increase. My steering wheel pulls to the left. Car wants to stall periodically. It has a hard idol.

Filed Oct 31, 2015 · Steering · 10,000 miles · WA

Purchased the car used with only 10k miles, after leaving dealership driving home on freeway speeds I noticed the car would not track correctly as is wanders left and right with a jerking pull requiring correction inputs the whole trip. Took car to dealership, first thing they did is rotate and balance tires. Did not fix problem. I have read of numerous reports of this same issue. When will ford stand up to this problem before it takes someones life. The electronic steering problems are a serious and dangerous issue. I do not recommend anyone purchase any ford focus until this poor system is replaced, or a recall is instated to fix this serious issue.

Filed May 12, 2014 · Steering · 50 miles · ME

Driving my new focus is a challenge, especially on the highway,keeping the car in a straight line. The car wanders in either direction, demanding a constant grip on the steering wheel to keep it going in a straight line. When the car drifts left or right, and you slightly steer to correct, it darts in the other direction. This is very scary driving on the highway especially when there are cars on either side of you. The service dept at my dealership claims there is nothing wrong. The sales dept. Wants to take the car in for trade at a discount of $3500 and I have owned the car a month! I have driven 3 other focuses, same tires, etc and they track straight without the constant correction/overcorrection issue. Advice? I see others have experienced this same issue stressful and unsafe! Why should I lose this kind of money, or accept this on a new vehicle, when this is not a problem I have created?!

Filed Feb 22, 2014 · Steering · 100 miles · OK

Steering sometimes wanders at highway speeds when problem occurs the wheels seem to wander left or right and small corrections are needed to keep the car going straight in the lane proper level of correction is impossible to make. As you correct in one direction you now are wandering in that direction. This causes the problem to happen over and over again. The result is the car "ping-ponging" in the lane problem is intermittent, problem is more pronounced at higher speeds problem seems to occur after driving the car for 40+ minutes problem is not "torque steer", the problem has nothing to do with throttle input wind seems to be unrelated to wandering sensation road surface quality seems to be unrelated to issue when making minor corrections on the highway: if I attempt not to overcompensate then I will veer too far in the direction that the car was wandering in the first place. You can't not overcompensate with the way it behaves. It's like you either don't compensate at all or you overcompensate, nothing in between.