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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
1FADP3N24EL••••••2014 Ford FOCUS
That is about average for the 2014 Ford FOCUS — 20 complaints per build across 120 builds.
13on this build
2433on the model
120builds in total
1involved a crash
1injuries
Most reportedPower Train 7Fuel/propulsion System 4Air Bags 2Steering 1
What owners of this build wrote
Air BagscrashSep 2016
Going less than 10 mph the car was making a wide turn on my street in front of my house when focus accelerated and went through a wire fence, taking down a metal stake, over limestone boulders before hitting a tree, stumps, and bushes on my property. Air bags did not employ.…
Unknown Or OtherJun 2024
Issues with (i'm guessing transmission) vehicle lurching forward when applying brakes, as if brakes aren't being applied at all. I was in traffic and trying to stop, and multiple times while my car tried to switch gears it lurched me forward and almost into the car in front of…
Power TrainOct 2021
My Vehicle Transmission Gear shifting Malfunction while I was Making a Maneuver with my Vehicle going into forward Driving mode. I had too make a sudden Brake and place the gear back into the Park position. I turn the Engine off and restarted the Engine and placed in drive mode.…
Fuel/propulsion SystemJul 2019
The contact owns a 2014 ford focus. While driving 65 mph, the vehicle failed to move forward as the accelerator pedal was depressed to the floorboard. In addition, the check engine warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to korf motors ford lincoln (located at 520 e…
Visibility/wiperJun 2017
My rear windshield spontaneously exploded when I turned my car on. Frontier ford santa clara dealership now refuses to take responsibility despite some clear evidence that this is a manufacturing error and not the result of blunt impact (uniform sharding, including at the edges,…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 1FADP3N24EL261670 · decoded Oct 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.