general problems of the 2012 Ford Fusion

My car has a very hard time shifting when I go to take off, I have not been in a wreck because of it yet but when it does shift it shifts very hard I’m afraid to even pull onto a busy road I’m worried one day it will just not shift and I’ll cause a crash.

Heated drivers seat got too hot to sit in and now the heating element is not working the switch will come on for a few second then shut off. The fix is $600 replacing elements according to the mechanic "this is very common problem with this vehicle" the heating up of the seat was a huge concern but now seat does not heat . Please help.

The driver seat, when I turn on the heated seat it gets so hot it burns you.

The heated seat on the driver's side becomes very hot after several minutes. Passenger heated seat is ok. It becomes hot enough that it has to be turned completely off or it seem as it may even cause a burn. I have not left it on continually to see how hot it would get.

Drivers heated seat gets to hot and then some times doesn't work.

Passenger airbag intermittently turns off while a full sized adult is in passenger seat.

I was stopped at a red light when a Toyota corolla rear-ended my vehicle. The speed of the corolla was probably between 40 - 50 miles / hour based on a road speed of 40 miles / hour. My driver seat collapsed backward during the impact leading to injury of both my shoulders, burst a couple of cervical spine discs, lead to bulging thoracic discs and a slipped lumbar vertebrae, bilateral knee injury from sliding up the chair, left perineal nerve paresis, intermittent numbness of upper and lower extremities and chronic back pain. I was lucky that nobody was sitting behind me in the car, otherwise my head would have impacted their body parts. I contacted Ford company to inquire about failures of their seats in rear-end impacts. Initially, they offered to inspect the car seat to asses if a failure has occurred and fix it. However, a couple of days later, I was dismayed to hear from them that if I wanted to file a claim for medical bills then I should do that with my car insurance company and Ford would mitigate the insurance company losses. Car seats should not collapse backward in cases of intermediate speed accidents since that could exacerbate spine injuries. Also, for the company to decline to inspect my car seat for defects based on their legal counsel recommendations show lack of care for their customers. I did some literature and according to it, when car seats collapse during rear-end accidents there is a lack of support of the spine. Even Ford's website claim that their cars are safe in rear-end impacts up to 60 miles / hour. I have proof that the injuries sustained were due to the car accidents. About 3 weeks prior to the accident, I had an mri of whole spine which did not show the above mentioned injuries on follow up mri after the accident.