Door problems of the 2009 Ford Fusion

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Fusion. While the vehicle was parked, the contact attempted to exit the vehicle, but the driver's side interior door handle fractured. The contact had to roll down the window to open the door from the outside. The vehicle was taken to a dealer for diagnostic testing, but the results were unknown. The door handle was replaced. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 89,500.

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that the interior driver side door handle failed to open the door and the door lock malfunctioned. There were warning indicators illuminated indicating that the doors would not work. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic. The manufacturer was not made aware of the issue. The VIN was invalid. The approximate failure mileage was 76,000.

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that the handle on the exterior front passenger side door fractured. As a result, the occupant sustained lacerations to the right hand on two separate occasions. There was no medical attention required. Also, the interior front driver side automatic door locks failed to unlock. The contact could only exit the vehicle from the passenger side door. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 60,000.

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that the interior driver side door handle failed to open the door. The dealer stated that the door handle needed to be replaced. The contact believed that the failure was due to the door handle being made of plastic. The vehicle was repaired and the manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that the front driver side door lock no longer worked. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 83,000.

This may be a huge coincidence but immediately after being sideswiped with only passenger side view mirror damaged, the driver's side door would no longer open from the inside. We thought it was related to the impact on the passenger side but this seems to be a recurring problem with Ford Fusions. We have to keep the motor running, lower the window and reach out to the exterior driver door handle to open the driver side door. This should be a Ford recall item. For awhile the airbag light will intermittently stay on while driving.

Went to work Monday, March 11th, and when I got to work my driver's side door would not open from the inside so I had to roll down window and open from outside. It will not lock either.

The chrome on the inside driver door handle is peeling and severely cut my finger.

After parking my car I pulled my door handle to get out of my car, when my door handle broke. The plastic is poor quality and snapped leaving my handle nearly hanging by a few pieces. This is a very common problem even so as much that when calling Ford to get it repaired they laughed at me citing it has happened with many other people. Seeing as there are several occurrences of an unanticipated problem with this vehicle I would like to recommend that this become a TSB.