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2012 Ford Fusion stability control problems

Owners reported stability control problems in 80 complaints for the 2012 Ford Fusion, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
80 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
86,000 miles 72 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
7 and 0
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When stability control problems show up

Stability control complaints by mileage, 2012 Ford Fusion Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 86,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 4 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 8 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 10 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 11 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 11 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 14 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 5 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 5 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 3 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 86,000 miles
Based on 72 complaints that include mileage. 31% 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 miles4
20k to 40k miles8
40k to 60k miles10
60k to 80k miles11
80k to 100k miles11
100k to 120k miles14
120k to 140k miles5
140k to 160k miles5
160k to 180k miles3
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 72 stability control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 86,000 miles, and 31% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 7 crashes, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

"takata recall" I received the notification concerning the airbag recall in the mail the day before the vehicle was involved in an accident and was eventually considered to be a total loss. The airbag in the drivers side did deploy and pieces of what I thought were glass were embedded in my skin on my left hand though there wasn't any glass in that area that seemed to be loose. I also noticed that the airbag continued to burn for an extremely long time.

Reported at 141,000 miles, October 2017 CrashInjury

I was on my way home from work and the lights just came on for no reason. Steering wheel locks on sharp turns at slow speeds. Cuts off bluetooth when it happens. ABS, traction and brake light come on. I looked on cars.com and saw a recall in 2015 for this same thing. I got my car in early 2016. Under my VIN it says the power steering was serviced in 2014 before they even knew about the recall. Now the ford dealerships don't see the 2015 recall in their computers.

Reported at 104,003 miles, October 2017

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