2006 Ford Focus air bags problems
43 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2006 Ford Focus, which is 16% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 43 16% of this year's complaints
- Typical mileage
- 65,000 miles 32 complaints with mileage
- Crashes and fires
- 17 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 16 and 1
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
When air bags problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 4 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 6 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 5 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 5 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 5 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 3 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 1 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 32 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 65,000 miles, and 47% were reported before 60,000 miles.
These complaints mention 17 crashes, 16 injuries, 1 death.
What owners wrote
I have recently been doing a review of several incidents involving the ford focus one of which was relating to my father, where on instances the air bag did not deploy on the vehicles during the incidence of a crash. This is something that I have noted on several accidents involving the vehicle, where in determination of the impact should of activated the deployment of the vehicles airbags but rather the system has not reacted in any form as of thus far there has been on noted death that I know of being my father…
Involved in an auto accident. Vehicle pulled out into my path of travel and I was forced to hit their vehicle head on at 50 MPH. After the initial impact I spun around and our vehicles hit again on the rear quarter panels. No air bags in my vehicle ever deployed.
Other problems reported for the 2006 Ford Focus
- Electrical system 48 complaints
- Cruise control 25 complaints
- Fuel system 19 complaints
- Brakes 16 complaints
- Body & structure 15 complaints