Four problems related to other fuel system tank filling/charging have been reported for the 2013 Ford Focus. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Ford Focus based on all problems reported for the 2013 Focus.
One day while filling car up. . I noticed a few drops of gas on the ground afterwards. Today I wanted to add $8 to my gas tank. The moment I started pumping the gas started coming out. I tried a few times to continue but I kept coming out.
I am having an issue with filling my car with gasoline. It can take me up to 20 minutes to put $10 worth of gas in the car. The gas nozzle constantly will click off when I am filling the tank. It does not matter if I am doing it manually or if I set the gas nozzle to the automatic feature. I have to continually depress the nozzle to fill my car and it constantly clicks off. I have tried different gas stations, and I will try to hold the nozzle in different way, but it never works properly.
After filling up the tank with gas, the vehicle stutters and feels like it's jumping when I am at a stop light and start to go. The gas gauge goes up while I am driving and the vehicle runs out of gas randomly. I was parked at my house and it wouldn't crank when I ran out of gas the 1st time (about three weeks ago) and the 2nd time (6/6/2018), I was on the interstate and the vehicle died due to no gas, yet the gauge was not on empty. Fortunately I was able to get off the side of the road and call roadside assistance. The vehicle is now at at Ford service repair shop and I am waiting to hear from them but the service repairman said this is a common problem, that he had the same vehicle in the week before with this same issue. Last Friday, I had a customer service representative with a Ford dealership tell me this is a common problem that occurs in this vehicle. Obviously running out of gas randomly is very dangerous. There needs to be a recall on this immediately to save lives. Ford needs to take responsibility for this manufacturing defect.
Filling up with gas the gas pump turns off after about every 1/2 gallon. Something to do with the venting of the gas tank.