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2001 Ford Focus body & structure problems

Owners reported body & structure problems in 62 complaints for the 2001 Ford Focus, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
62 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
110,000 miles 33 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 2
Injuries and deaths
6 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When body & structure problems show up

Body & structure complaints by mileage, 2001 Ford Focus Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 110,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 2 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 2 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 3 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 7 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 1 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 6 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 6 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 1 complaints 200k+ miles: 4 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 110,000 miles
Based on 33 complaints that include mileage. 21% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles2
20k to 40k miles2
40k to 60k miles3
60k to 80k miles7
80k to 100k miles1
100k to 120k miles6
120k to 140k miles6
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles1
200k+ miles4

What the data shows

Of the 33 body & structure complaints that report mileage, the median is about 110,000 miles, and 21% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 2 fires, 6 injuries.

What owners wrote

Driving ford focus slowly in snow,a jeep spun out of control hit the drivers side front of car spun around and hit us again from the rear.airbag deployed and it my passenger full in face. Damaged her face with chemical burns and created a coroidital tear in her eye that is permanent and permanent vision loss in one eye. The impact of the airbag jarred her brain and she now has a brain injury called chiari malformation,

Reported at 20,000 miles, December 2001 CrashInjury

The latches on three of the doors either do not latch which makes the door fly open or it latches and doesn't open, after inspection the latches are so corroded with rust that they do not work at all. Before I realized that the door wasn't latching I had a propane tank for a grill in the back seat when I made a right hand turn and it hit the door and the door flew open and the tank went flying down the street and almost hit a pedestrian.

Reported at 130,000 miles, August 2011

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