2012 Ford Fiesta lighting problems

Owners reported lighting problems in 22 complaints for the 2012 Ford Fiesta, 3% of the complaints on file.

Complaints: 22 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage: 111,000 miles 18 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires: 1 and 0
Injuries and deaths: 2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When lighting problems show up

Based on 18 complaints that include mileage. 11% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.

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Mileage	Complaints
0k to 20k miles	0
20k to 40k miles	0
40k to 60k miles	2
60k to 80k miles	1
80k to 100k miles	4
100k to 120k miles	4
120k to 140k miles	4
140k to 160k miles	3
160k to 180k miles	0
180k to 200k miles	0
200k+ miles	0

What the data shows

Of the 18 lighting complaints that report mileage, the median is about 111,000 miles, and 11% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

We were on the highway while it was snowing. All of the other vehicles were slowing down because there was an accident blocking off the highway. Eventually we all came to a stop. After we stopped there was a yukon that was unable to stop because of conditions and its load and hit us from behind. He was probably going 35 MPH. Both the passenger and driver's head flung back against seats. No airbags deployed. Passenger has suffered in the spine from this accident.

March 2014 CrashInjury

Both low beam headlights stopped working at the same time. High beams still work. I looked it up on the web and fiestas in canada have been recalled for this problem, but for some reason not in the us. Car was moving when this happened. I turned on the lights and the low beam headlights and they were out.

Reported at 120,000 miles, August 2020

Lighting problems in other years

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