general problems of the 2005 Ford Focus

Fuse continued to blow out causing entire left side of lights from front to back to turn off until new fuse replaced old. Was connected to continued lifting of hatchback on wagon model. Electrical harness was arcing and insulation flaking off and would have caused a fire had not the harness been replaced. This had been on and off for approximately 2 years starting with blowing out the bulbs then the fuse started blowing out in Jan 2021. Midas replaced harness this March. Car is a 2005 Focus wagon,.

Bought a 2005 Ford Focus in April, 2018. Told sales man that airbag engine light remains on. Was told is ok. On 6/112018, called customer service Ford coporate spoke with a lady. She ask for VIN number, I gave it to her. She said 2005 Focus has no airbag recall. I told her that air bag light stays on since we bought the car. She didn't take interest on that. I asked her what company made 2005 Ford Focus airbag? she would not tell me. I called local Ford dealer in wesley chapel FL. Told service tech same thing that I told coporate of engine light airbag always stays on. He too said is nothing. That VIN number is no recall. I asked him as well which company put airbags in 2005 Focus, was it tahkata? he too wouldn't answer me. So I email mr. W. Ford to explain above situation with airbag light and who placed air bags in 2005 Focus. Have not heard from him or his office, explained to mr. Ford, that airbag light being always on and his dealers want to charge me $200 to check engine light is absurd. When this is a national safety recall. That we as their paying customers deserve an answer and better treatment. Can you please tell me if this is a safety violation? would like to hear from you. Thank you. J. James smith.

Hatchback wiring harness between body and hatchback, has multiple wire insulation failure and wire breakage causing fuses to blow and non-functioning parking lights, reverse lights, break lights, instrument column lights, and uncontrolled release of electrical trunk while driving.

Bulb melts housing.

The contact owns a 2005 Ford Focus. The contact stated that the instrument panel, overhead dome light, rear windshield wiper, and rear exterior lights failed without warning. The dealer and manufacturer were notified, but the vehicle had not been diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was 135,000.

This is the third time I had to place front left and right head lamps and high beams . I brought this car off of enterprize dealer in nevade. Over the years I bgain havein lots of problems with this car. So much needed to be done on this car and I spent lots of money too. Not knowing untill now this car has some recall issues. Passenger rear door replace and broken again. The rear brake are rusted and needs to be replace,drums pads ext. . Noice in the stearing weel when I turn the car.

1)there wasn't much leading up to the failure. It just happened. Not one, but both of the casings for our rear/brake signal lights melted. That meant that the lamp assembly, or hole, that the light bulb socket goes into, melted in both the left and right rear lights even though we never changed the bulbs before in our car. The casing, or lamp assembly, became warped after melting so that we couldn't even twist the light bulb socket to change the bulb. 2) this made it so that both rear/break lights do not work. 3) we took it to the dealership. This is incredibly frustrating. It should have taken us no more than $4 to buy and change a light bulb. Instead it took the $181. 89 to replace the left casing (lamp asy), bulb and socket asy. Dealer said problem might be due to driving in stop-and-go traffic and that he has seen this problem before in our car. We need to get the right/rear light fixed also, same problem. I contacted the customer relations division for the car company. They contend they are siding with the dealership that this is a stop-and-go traffic problem. They refuse to fix it and say it's not covered by my warranty. My concern is that there are all these people driving in cities whose plastic parts are incompatible with the heat of the lightbulbs. This is a safety problem as I don't know if this could cause a fire if plastic parts, like the casing, can't withstand heat.