2007 Ford Focus problems
The 2007 Ford Focus has 524 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (23%) concerns air bags. After that come electrical system (17%) and latches & locks (6%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 524 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 23% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 86 and 11
- Injuries and deaths
- 109 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 55,000 miles 442 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 78 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 82 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 75 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 70 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 57 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 39 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 17 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 12 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 7 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 2 |
| 200k+ miles | 3 |
What the data shows
Among the 442 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 55,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 60,000 miles (99 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 86 complaints mention a crash; 11 complaints mention a fire; 109 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 92% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2007 ranks 14th most-complained-about out of 19 model years of the Ford Focus with enough data (320 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 ford focus. While driving 35 MPH, the contact's vehicle struck and killed a horse. The front air bags failed to deploy. The insurance company is investigating the crash. The vehicle will be towed to a body shop. A police report was filed. The contact sustained neck and head injuries and the passenger sustained head injuries. The failure mileage was 36,000.
My car was in a single vehicle accident as we hit a power pole head on going at least 50 MPH. I wasn't the driver. At impact both the driver and myself had our heads crash into the dashboard. The driver smashed his head into the steering wheel and I hit the area above the glove box. My head also hit the passenger door. The car caught on fire and burned completely to the ground. My concerns are that with an accident of that magnitude, not a single airbag deployed in the car.
I own a 2007 ford focus with 45k miles on it. Around 42k miles I begin to experience problems with my car when I need to accelerate quickly such as merging onto an interstate highway. The car would begin to accelerate but once it reached 3rd gear the car would jerk and start revving very loud but be stuck and would not accelerate. Initially it was occasional and would not be very bad to overcome, simply release the gas pedal for a while then it'd fix itself.
I have a 2007 ford focus zx5 and have had nothing but problems with the climate control switches and cables I have replaced these several time from the control lever cable,heat control cable they have both broke several times and they will work for a while and then they break or will not work, I recently purchased the whole control switch with heat, climate control, and speed and the cables and the mechanism that it hooks up to and within a week it does not work again, when I go from vent to defrost it will not go…