Other wheel or tire problem on the 2007 Ford Focus
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 23 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Ford Focus report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 17 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 35,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 27,160 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
88% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,040 miles | 14,100 miles | 17,542 miles | 25,000 miles | 35,200 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2002, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 62,500 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 135; the 2007 has 23. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I bought a new 2007 ford focus and it is four months old with 20,000 miles on it. The tires are bald with different patterns. The tire that concerns me the most is the one that has a wave like pattern on it. The dealer said its normal wear and tear but all the people including mechanics I showed it too before I went to ford said they had never seen anything like it before. I am concerned that there is a major defect that could seriously injure someone. *jb
While traveling east on interstate 10 in arizona, rear tire (drivers side) on a 2007 ford focus separated (18,000 miles on car and tires) car slide sideways into the right shoulder and flipped twice. Totaled car. *tr
The first incident occurred while parked during shopping hours; daylight. The left, back tire let out a hissing sound that was coming from the tire area. The valve stem was leaking air. The tire was going flat. This was the first incident; 06/09/08; mileage on the ford focus 2007 hatchback was 14,143. The second incident occurred on 07/31/08; the right front wheel, passenger side, also was losing air; again it was the valve stem; mileage 14,933; vehicle purchased on 02/16/07. Hankook optimo h725 tire size p195/6or15 87t hankook usa corporate headquarters 1450 valley road wayne, new jersey 07470 www.hankooktireusa.com treadwear "620" traction b temperature b m + s radial tubeless standard load made in china (2) valve stem failures/2 door hatchback----ford motor company plies: thread 2 steel + 1 polyester sidewall 1 polyester VIN# *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Ford Focus
Other body or interior problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Alternator or charging system failure
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 23 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2007 Ford Focus?
Across 17 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2007 Ford Focus?
23 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 46 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed