Ford Focus, Escape, C-Max, Transit Connect, Mustang, Mkc. Published by Transport Canada as 2016432 on 6 September 2016. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the pawl spring tab in the side door latch could break. This condition typically will prevent the door from latching. In certain situations where the door is able to be closed, the door may be partially latched and could unlatch while driving. This could increase the risk of injury to a vehicle …
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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
- 2016432
- Recall date
- 6 September 2016
- Make
- Ford, Lincoln
- Models
- Focus, Escape, C-Max, Transit Connect, Mustang, MKC
- Model years
- 2012 to 2016
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 233,034
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the pawl spring tab in the side door latch could break. This condition typically will prevent the door from latching. In certain situations where the door is able to be closed, the door may be partially latched and could unlatch while driving. This could increase the risk of injury to a vehicle occupant seated next to the door, or result in damage to property. Correction: If a door will not latch, dealers will replace all four door latches with a more robust part.
Note: A door that is partially latched can cause the courtesy light to remain on, set a door ajar message in the instrument cluster and sound a door ajar chime to alert the driver that there is a door latch problem.
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 2016432.
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.
- 2016475 · 27 September 2016 · Focus · Structure
- 2016474 · 27 September 2016 · Transit Connect · Structure
- 2016410 · 23 August 2016 · Escape · Structure
- 2016411 · 23 August 2016 · Flex, Taurus, MKT · Powertrain
- 2016412 · 23 August 2016 · Transit · Fuel System
- 2016493 · 11 October 2016 · Edge · Brakes
- 2016526 · 25 October 2016 · F-550 Super Duty, F-450 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty · Fuel System
- 2016527 · 25 October 2016 · Mustang · Engine
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2016431 · 6 September 2016 · Mazdaspeed3, Mazda3, Mazda5 · Structure
- 2016434 · 7 September 2016 · V-Express9.0, C-Express9.0 · Structure
- 2016473 · 26 September 2016 · Chateau, Four Winds · Structure
- 2016475 · 27 September 2016 · Focus · Structure
- 2016474 · 27 September 2016 · Transit Connect · Structure
- 2016410 · 23 August 2016 · Escape · Structure
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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 644 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2016.
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