Front Seat Recliner Problems of Ford Focus

Under normal wear the back of the driver's seat broke on the 2003 Ford Focus.

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Focus 3 door seat back latch failure. Secondary release to allow access to rear seat failed and will not hold seat back in upright and locked position.

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The Focus seems to have a drivers seat recliner defect. With our zx3 the recliner handle broke off. We now use a screwdriver to recline the seat, haven't had time to fix it yet. My sister who also owns a Focus her seat does not recline at all. She uses a pillow to help with the recline. She is a college student has no money to fix it. However I do think its funny that both cars are having similar problems both within 6 months of each other, both are 2000 Ford Focus.

While as a sole driver and occupant of a 2005 Ford Focus, I was stopped at a red light and rear-ended by a four door 1995 Dodge intrepid at a speed of approximatley 50 miles per hour. My driver's seat collasped in the collision which jerked my neck and back into the rear seat. As a result my thorasic spine, cervical sipne was so injreud as to cause my neck and back including my both arms to suffer a degree of paralysis, and injury to the upper spinal cord.

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While driving at any speed driver's seat rocked forcibly during acceleration and stopping.

The front drivers seatback has completely failed: I. E. The right side of the seat back has collapsed with no warning, while driving, which almost caused an accident! after reviewing the NHTSA listing of customer complaints I realized this is not the first complaint of this kind.

While exiting the rear seat, the passenger seat back release assembly broke (part number ys426161184aa). When I examined the broken part it was obvious that the clevis had broken from "metal fatigue" failure. I brought my Focus into the dealer the next day. To my surprise, I discovered that another Ford Focus, same year, same model, had experienced the same failure, suggesting that the casting / forging for that part is faulty. The parts department just received the part to repair the other Focus. The dealership is investigating, for me, the milage of the other vehicle. I will up date this report when the milage of the other Focus is known.

Both front seats completely collapsed backwards when vehicle was struck from rear. Dealer was notified. Consumer was pushed into an intersection, had no control over steering wheel, 2 people were injured in accident.

Driver's seatback handle broke, unable to adjust the seat.

Back seat of the wagon does not come back onto the catch after it has been used as a wagon bed. I have written Ford several times, talked to the dealer five times and talked to Ford three times. Each time they have told me they would not use the seat and they are refering the problem to engineering. What I think furthur complicates the problem is the fact that the dealership is closing and the model is being taken off the makrket. Hence no reason to fix it.

The bushing broke on the drivers side back seat causing the seat not to lock into the upright position after being lowered to create a flat surface. Nlm.

Tested my brand new Focus rear seat release in the trunk and had trouble releasing the 60 of the 60/40 seat. When it did release, I had trouble securing the seat into the latch. The latch didn't seem lined up. Went to the dealer, waited on a new latch. The latch didn't fix it so they're going to try a new cable.

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