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2000 Ford Focus fuel system, gasoline problems

366 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the fuel system, gasoline on the 2000 Ford Focus10% of all complaints for this model year.

366
Fuel System, Gasoline complaints
10%
share of all complaints
52,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
11 / 7
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Tl* the contact owns a 2000 ford focus. Shortly after the vehicle was repaired according to nhtsa campaign number: 03v482000 (fuel system, gasoline), the failure indicated in the recall notice recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer twice for repairs, but the dealer stated that they did…

    filed Jul 22, 2014

  • Tl* the contact owns a 2000 ford focus. The vehicle stalled while the contact was driving approximately 40 mph. The contact was able to restart the vehicle however, the failure recurred intermittently whenever the fuel tank was one quarter of a tank fuel. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for…

    filed May 10, 2012

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.