2000 Ford Focus recall: electrical system
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. A decklid wire harness CAN fatigue and develop broken wires in the bend area of the wire harness.
💥 The risk
This could result in either a loss of individual lamp functions, or in the case of a short of the broken wires that causes a fuse to open, in the loss of stop lamp or tail lamp function. Loss of stop lamp or tail lamp function could increase the risk of a crash.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will replace the decklid wire harness.
Is the fix free? Yes. Safety recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer under federal law, including parts and labor. (Vehicles more than 15 years old when the recall was announced can be excluded, but most manufacturers still fix them.)
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V411000
- Manufacturer recall #
- 00S50
- Manufacturer
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY
- Vehicles affected
- 74,500
- Component
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
- Owner phone
- 1-800-392-3673
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Dec 19, 2000
- Built
- Mar 8, 1999 – Dec 15, 1999
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Owner notification began december 19, 2000. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact ford at 1-800-392-3673. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).