2003 Ford Focus Clutch Assembly Problems
- 6
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
Among these 6 stored complaint records:
- 0 indicate a crash
- 0 indicate injury
- 1 indicate fire
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 30–60k mi | 2 |
| 1–30k mi | 2 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Clutch Assembly
Clutch slips during attempts to pass vehicles, especially trucks on two lane highways. During acceleration suddenly the car looses speed and the tachometer revved up, making safe pass impossible. Had to slow down and merge again behind the vehicle. Only seemed to happen when the car has been drive more than 100 miles non-stop. No problems in city or freeway driving. Really scary when it happened so far about 9…
ODI 10194131
Clutch Assembly
My daughter drives a 2003 ford focus svt. On february 28, 2007 she was returning to easton, pa from state college, pa when the transmission destroyed itself resulting in a catastrophic failure of the gearbox, flywheel,bell housing and pressure plate. This took place on i-80 . I feel you should be informed due to the amount of damage and severity of the explosion. A fire did result from the failure/explosion. I have…
Fire reported
ODI 10184713
Clutch Assembly
Vehicle, a 2003 ford focus w/ 20,000 miles, became disabled due to complete failure of clutch to reengage when i shifted - rolled to stop in evening rush hour traffic on interstate 66 in fairfax, virgiinia. Car had prevous intermittent problem with clutch not engaging and was returned from dealer two days earlier, february 2, saying the clutch was "performing ok at this time npf." i could not maneuver from the…
ODI 10112723
Center Support Bearing · Clutch Assembly
In july, 2004 took vehicle to the dealership to replace the throw-out bearing and clutch plate at about 1,000 miles the same issue happened again in september. *ak
ODI 10094832
Clutch Assembly · Manual Transmission
2003 svt ford focus: flywheel, pressure plate, clutch assembly failure. Multiple cases have been submitted to dealers. Vehicle has been in shop for 15 business days with no end in sight. I have also heard of bellhousing cracking however i'm not sure if this was a case with my car, no information about that from dealer.*ak
ODI 10045601
Clutch Assembly · Equipment · Lock · Tires
Buy the car in livingston montana 09-28-2002 the vin [xxx] the car had only like 20 miles we drove it off the lot. We went on vacation that summer we had a blow out on the rear driver side. We called the ford company in livingston ,montana we were in id so they said that they could not do any thing for us. We had to drive to the next town about 14 miles back . We got back we took it to ford company. The car was…
ODI 10107707