2013 FORD FIESTA Complaints

FRONT PASSENGER DOOR LATCH BROKE INTERNALLY. THE DOOR WILL NO LONGER LATCH. IT WAS NOT ABUSED JUST CLOSED NORMALLY. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED. THE FIRST WAS THE PASSENGER REAR DOOR ABOUT 2/3 MONTHS PREVIOUS. *TR

THE REAR PASSENGER DOOR LATCH ASSEMBLY FAILED. THE DOOR WILL NOT CLOSE OR LOCK. *JS

JERKING, SHUDDERING, LOSS OF POWER ON ACCELERATION. WAS ALMOST BEEN REAR ENDED BECAUSE OF THIS. THIS IS A RECURRING ISSUE. RECEIVED RECALL FROM FORD FOR TRANSMISSION. TOOK CAR IN TO DEALERSHIP AND WAS TOLD THEY FOUND NO PROBLEM OR ISSUE WITH MY CAR. CAR CONTINUES TO BE A CONCERN BECAUSE OF THE JERKING, STUTTERING AND LOSS OF POWER ON ACCELERATION. *JS

SLUGGISH ACCELERATION, SPUTTERING, HARD SHIFTING UPON ACCELERATING FROM STOP (LOWER GEARS). DAY AFTER PURCHASE OF VEHICLE RETURNED TO DEALERSHIP AND/OR SERVICE DEPT. SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE - SPOKE TO SALES WHO ADVISED THIS IS NORMAL DUE TO TYPE OF CLUTCH SYSTEM. WAS ADVISED NO SERVICE COULD/WOULD BE ATTEMPTED. DEALER SUGGESTED ALTERING STYLE OF DRIVING... PROBLEM HAS PERSISTED AND I HAVE TAKEN VEHICLE IN SEVERAL TIMES, EACH TIME BEING TOLD THE SAME THING (WITH NO DIAG OR WRITE UP BEING DONE). ON 11/24/14 WHILE TRAVELING OVER 350 MILES IN OPEN DESERT, PROBLEM ESCALATED TO ALL GEARS AND VEHICLE WOULD NOT ACCELERATE OR DECELERATE PROPERLY WITHOUT LURCHING, JERKING, SHUDDERING, ETC. TOOK TO SERVICE AT DEALERSHIP OUT OF HOME STATE AND WAS ADVISED, PRIOR TO INSPECTION, CLUTCH WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED AS SAME YEAR, MAKE, AND MODEL COMING IN DAILY. CONFIRMED WITH INSPECTION CLUTCH WAS FAULTY. PARTS ON BACKORDER AT LEAST 3 WEEKS AND WOULD NOT ORDER ON MY BEHALF AS WOULD NOT BE IN THAT LOCATION TO HAVE WORK DONE THERE. CONTACTED PURCHASE DEALERSHIP AND CONFIRMED BACKORDER. REQUESTED PARTS BE ORDERED BUT WAS ADVISED THEY WOULD NOT ORDER UNTIL VEH INSPECTED BY THEM (2 WEEKS OUT AS OUT OF STATE) AND THEN 3 WEEKS AT LEAST FOR PARTS. I CONSIDER THIS A SAFETY ISSUE AS LURCHING, JERKING, ETC CAUSES VEH TO BECOME UNMANAGEABLE AS WELL AS EFFECTING ACCELERATION AND STOPPING TIMES. *JS

REAR PASSENGER DOOR WAS WORKING FINE THEN THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING I OPENED THE DOOR TO RETRIEVE SOMETHING FROM THE BACK OF MY CAR AND WHEN I TRIED TO CLOSE THE DOOR THE LATCH WOULD NOT ENGAGE AND THE DOOR REMAINED OPEN. THE VEHICLE IS INOPERABLE IN THIS STATE BECAUSE THE DOOR WILL NOT STAY CLOSED. *TR

A YEAR AND A HALF AGO I BROUGHT MY CAR, 2013 FORD FIESTA IN FOR A REGULAR OIL CHANGE AND THE SHOP NOTIFIED ME TO BRING CAR TO FORD DEALERSHIP IMMEDIATELY FOR A MAJOR OIL LEAK FIX, WHICH, I HAD THOUGHT WAS THE REASON FOR MY CAR SPUTTERING AND HESITATING FROM A COMPLETE STOP TO ACCELERATION. FORD FIXED OIL LEAK AND REPORT HAD ALSO CLAIMED THE TRANSMISSION WAS REMOVED TO CLEAN UP "CONTAMINATED CLUTCH". AFTER, MY CAR SEEMED TO RUN SMOOTHER AND ACCELERATION AND SPUTTER WAS ALLEVIATED. A MONTH LATER MY CAR BEGAN INTENSELY SPUTTERING AND IN A COUPLE INSTANCES WOULD BEGIN TO ACCELERATE THEN COMPLETELY STOP EVEN THOUGH MY FOOT WAS ON THE GAS PEDAL. IT SEEMED TO STALL OUT ONE TIME AND I WAS ALMOST T-BONED BY A CAR COMING AROUND THE CORNER, EVEN THOUGH I WOULD HAVE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO TURN IF THE CAR ACCELERATED PROPERLY. MONTHS PASS AND MY CAR WAS STILL ACTING WEIRD, SHAKING WHEN IN A LOW GEAR AND STRUGGLING TO ACCELERATE. AT 35000 MILES I BROUGHT THE CAR IN(STILL UNDER WARRANTY) AND THEY FIXED THE CLUTCH IN THE TRANSMISSION. UPON LEAVING THE SHOP THE CAR FELT BETTER, BUT STILL HAD A SHAKE TO IT, ESPECIALLY ON HILLS. I CALLED COLONIAL FORD AND NOTIFIED THEM IT NEEDED TO BE FIXED AGAIN (THIS WAS FOUR DAYS AFTER I PICKED IT UP FROM BEING FIXED) THEY TOLD ME IT WAS FIXED TO "THEIR STANDARD" AND THE SPUTTER IS "ALWAYS GOING TO KIND OF BE THERE". MY CONCERN IS MY SAFETY, I DO NOT FEEL SAFE AT ALL DRIVING THIS VEHICLE AND I DO NOT WANT TO ENDANGER ANYONE ELSE ON THE ROAD. IT'S BOTHERSOME THAT I'M PAYING FOR A BROKEN CAR THAT I DO NOT FEEL SAFE IN. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 FORD FIESTA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER DOOR FAILED TO LATCH. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 3,100. UPDATED 1/7/15*CN UPDATED 9/7/2017*CN

THE 2013 FORD FIESTA JERKS, HESITATES AND SPUTTERS DURING ACCELERATION GREATLY. IT ROLLS BACKWARD ON INCLINES LIKE A STICK SHIFT, BUT THE CAR IS AN AUTOMATIC. THE CAR FEELS UNSAFE. *TR

THE CAR IS UNSAFE!!! ITS JERKS, SHAKES, ROLLS BACK, ACCELERATES ON ITS OWN AND THE TRANSMISSION MAKES WEIRD SOUNDS. A FEW DAYS AGO I TOOK IT IN BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T MOVE. THAT WAS THE SECOND TIME I HAD TAKEN IT IN FOR THAT ISSUE. I PICKED THE CAR UP MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY IT WAS BACK IN THE SHOP. THE CAR STALLED IN MID TURN, ALMOST CAUSING ME TO GET INTO AN ACCIDENT. I AM NOW AFRAID TO DRIVE MY CAR. FORD KNOWS THE VEHICLE NEEDS TO BE RECALLED. INSTEAD OF DOING SO, THEY EXTEND THE WARRANTY IN A EFFORT TO MAKE CUSTOMERS HAPPY. IN THE MEANTIME THE PROBLEM ISN'T BEING SOLVED. THEY ARE WASTING COUNTLESS MANHOURS ON A SITUATION THAT ISN'T GOING AWAY. *TR

I'VE HAD THE CAR FOR TWO YEARS. I'VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT THE CAR "SHUTTERING" ISSUE FOR A YEAR AND A HALF. WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR I COMPLAINED ABOUT IT THEY SAID THAT THEY WERE GETTING SIMILAR COMPLAINTS AND HANDED ME A FLYER FROM A STACK THAT THEY HAD READILY AVAILABLE AT THEIR DESK WHICH MENTIONS WHAT I'M EXPERIENCING IS NORMAL AND WILL GO AWAY WITH TIME. EARLIER THIS YEAR I BROUGHT THE CAR IN WITH THIS ISSUE AND THEY HAD TO REMOVE THE TRANSMISSION AND REPLACE PARTS IN THE GEARS. THE ISSUE SEEMS TO BE GETTING WORSE. YESTERDAY, I WAS AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT WAITING TO TURN LEFT. I STARTED TO ACCELERATE THEN THE CAR STARTED TO MAJORLY SHUTTER. IT CAUSED A SIGNIFICANT DELAY IN TIME THAT IT WOULD NORMALLY TAKE TO MAKE THE TURN WHILE I WAS IN MID TURN AT A VERY BUSY INTERSECTION WITH APPROACHING TRAFFIC. A FEW WEEKS AGO I MADE AN APPOINTMENT TO BRING MY CAR IN TODAY. WHEN I EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY THEY SAID THEY WERE AWARE OF THIS "SHUTTERING" ISSUE AND HAD MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS. I ASKED THEM MANY QUESTIONS....SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WERE: WHEN I BROUGHT THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION IN THE FIRST YEAR WHY DID YOU IGNORE MY COMPLAINT AND HAND ME A FLYER TELLING ME THIS IS NORMAL? WHEN MY HUSBAND BROUGHT THE CAR IN FOR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE A FEW WEEKS AGO WHY DIDN'T YOU INFORM HIM THAT THERE WAS A RECALL NOTICE ON THE TRANSMISSION THAT EXTENDS THE SERVICE WARRANTY AND THAT THERE COULD BE A SAFETY ISSUE? SHE EXPLAINED THAT FORD WAS TO BLAME AND NOT THE DEALERSHIP. SHE SAID THAT FORD WAS GIVING THEM MISINFORMATION AND TOLD THEM ALL ALONG THAT THIS WAS NORMAL OF THE TRANSMISSION AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE TELLING THEIR CUSTOMERS. I URGE YOU TO PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A SEVERE SAFETY HAZARD. *TR