Other body or interior problem on the 2014 Ford Focus
5 crashes 1 fire 2 injuries 1 death 9 of the 80 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 body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2014 Ford Focus report other body or interior problem at a median of 35,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles, from 43 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 11th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 2,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 95,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 91,760 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
49% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,040 miles | 7,000 miles | 36,000 miles | 60,500 miles | 94,800 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, 5 a crash, 1 a fire, 2 an injury and 1 a fatality 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–$2,000 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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 87,500 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 301; the 2014 has 80. 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 have a 5 door hb. On the day of this incident, I had driven the car several times with no problems (and no prior problems) and the car was fully warmed, inside and out. The weather was dry and sunny, the temperature had climbed from 17f the previous night to 36f by 11am when this incident repeatedly occurred. The front passenger door opened normally from the outside when I pulled the handle, but when I attempted to close the door, it wouldn't latch (it bounced back from the door jammed and remained ajar) and the instrument panel showed an 'open door' warning. The latching mechanism in the door appeared to be in the proper position, but could easily be moved with my finger (resistance was felt in this mechanism on all other doors.) after several attempts, the door finally appeared to latch and the instrument panel did not show an 'open door' warning. When backing out of my parking spot, and again after driving approximately 100 feet at 10mph, the front passenger door opened (fortunately, the passenger seat was unoccupied.) after several attempts each time, I was able to again close the door. While on the highway going to the…
I bought this car new on dec 31, 2013. Here's my list of problems... 1) trunk was way off alignment, dealership fixed best they could... 2) wipers are hitting the side of frame when they wipe. It makes a very loud noise when wipers are on and is very annoying. Dealership is installing new wiper motors as I write this... 3) molding on both rear doors at top of window keep falling down, also being repaired now. 4) car drops rims when at a stop and almost kills the engine..... 5) car hesitates when accelerator is pressed, then jerks forward. I drive this car very conservatively , like an old man, I take great care of all my cars. I am very disappointed in this purchase! I've owned fords for 25 years and the quality is greatly going down. Looks like I'll have to file another lemon law suite against ford....I did win my first suite in 2010 on a new ford ranger! *tr
My car has generated a horrible smell in the interior. It started out as a faint smell. Then after a couple weeks it has gotten significantly stronger. Took the car to the dealer and they took out the entire interior and cleaned everything. The smell was then gone. It started to smell again about 2 months later. The same exact smell. It is 20f outside currently now and the smell is not noticeable until the car gets warm or it sits in a heated garage. The smell is hard to describe. Its a foul smell, on the same level as a dead animal smell, but it smells nothing like that. The dealer and I have confirmed that it is not the smell that is coming from the AC when water condensation collects in there. This is an entirely different smell than that. It almost smells like some sort of chemical. Im still working with the dealer and ford to sort out this deal. While they have been accommodating, it is frustrating to say the least. They have talked about replacing the entire interior, but the dealer and I do not believe that will work. *tr
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How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 80 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2014 Ford Focus?
Across 43 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2014 Ford Focus?
80 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 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