Adaptive Equipment Problems of Ford Fiesta

As I was leaving work pulling out of the road I stepped on the gas and the car stalled. Making multiple vehicles come to a screeching stop almost causes multiple wrecks. This was the first time. Other times I was in traffic passing people or just driving down the road and the car started to shake and would stall not accelerating. Last of all my car would not start at least 3 times in one week due to code p2837 and p2832.

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A couple a months ago, my sister tried to close the rear door on the passenger side. The door just bounced off and I have to tie it to the passenger seat because Ford told me that it's not covered and that I have to pay out of pocket for this something that it's not only my car that it happened too. This car is giving me headaches I just want my door fixed it's dangerous that I'm driving it this way but it's my only car. My door is making the seat lose because of it being tied to it. The door wont close!!.

Me and my children were at the mall and when we went to the car we discovered the driver's rear door was damaged. The door would not close completely and posed a threat to my children's safety. I paid $144. 00 for the latch piece that seemed to be the problem. And another $128. 00 to get it installed at my dealer. I use the highway to get home usually and I am afraid that any other one of the doors might open on their own while I'm getting home or while I'm driving with my children.

The front doors to my 2013 Ford Fiesta would not latch properly after unlocking, getting into my car and trying to close them. The latch would not close, therefore leaving my doors unable to close and making the car non-driveable. To be fixed, the entire locking mechanism needed changed costing $785 dollars to repair. Recently this past week, the same thing happened to my rear driver side door while I was getting ready to turn onto the interstate to go to work. The door swung open, making it very unsafe to operate on the road, and I turned around to go back home to switch to my wife's car. Again, the whole mechanism needed changed to repair to the cost of $345 dollars. A car that is 2 years old with less than 50k should not have big and potentially dangerous issues such as this. Hopefully Ford will do the right thing a do a recall for this model.

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As I arrive home open the back door and was not able to closed again had to go to dealer to buy the part and had it replace. The latch stop working part # be8z 5426412 b.

Passenger rear door latch broke. All I did was unlock the door and now it will not close. Have to have a cord across the back seat to hold it shut! there needs to be a recall on this immediately! I should not have to spend $250 on this defect that Ford screwed up!.

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I was loading items into my backseat after vacation in the back right door and went to shut the door when it bounced back. It was not locking at all. I have had this vehicle since January and have maybe opened the back doors 20 times a piece as I drive alone 90% of the time and with my significant other who sits in the front seat the other 10% of the time. We tried to fiddle with the latching mechanism, but no combination of adjusting the latch would yield closure. We eventually settled on taking a taxi to the hardware store and getting 2 bungee cords to hold the door shut on our drive back home. The current issue is that my dome lights will not turn off and I fear for my battery in the time it will take me to get to the dealership. My car is still under manufacturer's warranty at 29,500 miles so I'm hopeful that they will fix this issue for me promptly. Otherwise, it was an unnecessary cost and safety hazard for a car I purchased 8 months ago.

My right rear door that is hardly ever used will not close due to the latch. I was 200 miles from home and it was labor day weekend so couldn't get to dealership. Had to buy a bungee cord to secure the door from the inside and it still opened slightly going around curves and backseat items almost fell out. My vehicle is a little over 2 years old but due to my job of driving frequently (driving children) I am well past the 36k warranty and will have to pay to fix this. Since I can't afford at the moment the battery needs to be disconnected since the lights stay on and the doors remain unlocked. This clearly needs to be addressed after so many complaints.

Transmission constantly jerks, bucks, hesitates, and revs to high rpm. My nervousness begins when going from a complete stop to trying to cross four lanes of traffic. The automatic transmission hesitates, bucks, jerks, while praying I can cross the lanes of traffic without getting killed. Once the transmission kicks into 3rd and 4th gear, jerkiness stops and it behaves like a car should. April 2014, Ford service center finds a leak from bellhousing. Replaced seals. Cleaned the clutch. Sent me on my way. May 2014 - car continues to shudder and jerk. Clutch replaced. February 2015 - transmission still continues to buck, jerk, make noises. Ford service center performs reflash and relearn adaptive. Another clutch ordered. 2-4 week back order. March 2015 - Ford sends field engineer to inspect car (lemon law). Car passes all of Ford's inspections. Car continues to hesitate, jerk, and make grinding noises. May 6, 2015 - bring car to Ford service center for several recalls. Clutch finally replaced. May 18, 2015 - check engine light goes on. Fiesta goes to Ford service - catalytic converter needs to be replaced (16,300 miles) going to arbitration for lemon law this week.

My Ford Fiesta 2013 has been having issues with shuddering, lunging, jerking, and failing to engage gear shifts. I have been told by several Ford dealers and servicemen that I need to drive the vehicle as if it were a stickshift and hesitation between gear shifts is normal for this car. A Ford dealer hooked up a laptop and reset the vehicle to TSB 13-4-5 "intermittent transmission clutch shudder dps6 automatic transmission". The problem was not resolved, so I filed a complaint with Ford motor company; complaint #2989023. I was told that I need to bring the car to a dealer and they need proof that there is something wrong with the car. The service person said I need to be driving the car while faults are documented because the car has an adaptive learning program that responds to the driver's actions. I brough the car to schaumburgh Ford in illinois. The service director test drove the car while I was in the passenger's seat. He said he did not experience any faults with the vehicle. However, there was one instance as we were returning back to the dealership, that the car shuddered. The dealer took the car for the afternoon 8/29/2013 and said he reset the car again for TSB 13-4-5 update although they were unable to provide me with a receipt of work that was done. On the morning of 8/30/2013 the car experienced overheating and burning under the hood. A service person from the schaumber Ford dealership in illinois met to pick up the vehicle. The service person told me they would not be able to provide a rental car due to the weekend schedule. The issue is still being addressed by the dealer at this time.

The transmission in my 2012 Ford Fiesta seems faulty. When driving the car I do not feel safe and at times feel like the car "has a mind of its own". There are times when I try to slow down when coming to a stop light, etc. And the car surges forward as the rpm dial spikes. There are other times when trying to change lanes or pull out of the street and I need to accelerate quickly the car will not accelerate as I should, putting me in the path of an oncoming car. While going a consistent speed on a straight road the car will jerk, as if I'm adjusting a manual transmission. I've brought the car to Ford and was told this was "normal" for the car. It seems that myself and others are having this issue and how it has not been deemed a safety issue with repercussion of a recall is beyond me.

This vehicle has had consistent transmission shudder and engine rattle upon acceleration which affects the the initial acceleration of the car. The sporadic delay in initial acceleration has been an ongoing safety concern. Most recently the vehicle almost stalled completely after beginning to accelerate into a merge. There was a few second delay in any movement or power to the car. Luckily there was no one coming at the time or this vehicle malfunction would have caused a serious accident. My car has been in to a Ford service center 5 times for this complaint and it is still not resolved. I am also concerned that Ford knowingly replaced the clutch and seals in my car with malfunctioning parts. Apparently newly engineered parts were produced as a patch for this issue. Either the old parts were used to fix my car, which would be quite an egregious safety issue, or the newly engineered parts are still malfunctioning. Either way I do not feel that my Ford Fiesta is safe to be on the road and Ford has not adequately address this issue to resolve the matter.

2012 Ford Fiesta: purchased 12/4/12 original owner! have had my vehicle in several times for transmission concerns since my I purchase of the vehicle. Took it to the dealer I purchased it with, they told me nothing about the awareness of the transmission issues. In fact I ran into the salesman who stated he just found out himself and is he had known he would not advised the purchase of this vehicle. Since they had been repairing the transmission/clutch with no cost out of my pocket, I continued to have them repair the transmission. But, I have now spent more time back and forth between the dealer and having to leave my car for diagnoses and repair work and it is getting very old. Not to say what this does for the resale of the vehicle. The repairs for the transmission/clutch have been endless, replacing seals, reprogramming computers etc etc. I have been into the dealer five (5) occasions for the same issue, with some occasions having to leave the car with the dealer for days (parts were back ordered). Clearly Ford was not initially willing to acknowledge the issue until most recently, the dealer now states the symptoms from the transmission are a common occurrence with a 6 speed auto & dual clutch. Repair work on transmission: date, mileage, repairs thus far: 5/03/9,659: reprogramming, adaptive learning 7/11/13,193: ids updated, reset adaptive learning 10/29/19,945: clutch assembly, seals, gaskets replaced, transmission assistance programming 5/21/33,062: replaced output shaft: seal asy. , bearing asy. , clutch asy. Etc etc. 10/7/42,757: power control, transmission control and computer updates. 11/called Ford dealer service: reported the transmission/clutch [problems continue. Their response was the shuttering and hesitations are normal transmission operation, can bring to dealer for additional diagnoses, if I felt so inclined.