Ford Focus. Published by Transport Canada as 2012120 on 3 April 2012. System: Visual System.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, a seal plug may have been dislodged from the wiring harness connector to the passenger side wiper motor during vehicle assembly. This could allow water or other contaminants to enter and accumulate in the connector, resulting in an intermittent or inoperative passenger side wiper motor. An …
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Ford FOCUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford FOCUS is named on 19 American notices, 56 British, 29 European and 16 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2012120
- Recall date
- 3 April 2012
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- Focus
- Model years
- 2012
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Visual System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 19,062
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, a seal plug may have been dislodged from the wiring harness connector to the passenger side wiper motor during vehicle assembly. This could allow water or other contaminants to enter and accumulate in the connector, resulting in an intermittent or inoperative passenger side wiper motor. An inoperative passenger side wiper may result in reduced driver visibility in certain driving manoeuvres, which could result in a crash causing property damage and/or personal injury. Note: The driver side wiper uses a separate motor that does not use a seal plug within the connector and is not susceptible to this condition. Correction: Dealers will inspect, clean and properly seal the passenger side wiper motor connector. Inoperative wiper motors will be replaced.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2012120.
Ford elsewhere in this register
Ford is named on 818 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2012028 · 30 January 2012 · Navigator, Expedition · Seats And Restraints
- 2012004 · 6 January 2012 · Freestar · Powertrain
- 2012003 · 5 January 2012 · Escape · Brakes
- 2012002 · 4 January 2012 · F-650 · Steering
- 2012218 · 18 July 2012 · Escape · Fuel System
- 2012235 · 25 July 2012 · Escape · Other
- 2012324 · 28 September 2012 · F-650, F-750 · Lights And Instruments
- 2012325 · 28 September 2012 · Explorer · Accessories
The same system: Visual System
424 notices in this register name Visual System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2012122 · 5 April 2012 · Traverse, Enclave, Acadia · Visual System
- 2012111 · 29 March 2012 · J4500 · Visual System
- 2012194 · 29 June 2012 · Cxu, Gu, Chu · Visual System
- 2012195 · 3 July 2012 · Aspire, Anthem, Cornerstone · Visual System
- 2012283 · 17 August 2012 · Sonic · Visual System
- 2011275 · 27 July 2011 · E4500, J4500 · Visual System
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Ford: 1,346 in the register, and 444 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2012.
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