2012 Ford Focus Tires Problems

“When making a left turn from a main road onto a side street I encounter massive grinding noises coming from what sounded like my left front tire area. I thought maybe it was my imagination. From then on there is intermittent noises coming from that area (sounds like plastic rubbing on something) I took it to the dealership on sat, 7/14 they did a visual safety exam and found nothing wrong but they did rotate my tires just in case. …”

“I purchased a brand new 2012 Ford Focus on 2/20/2013. On sunday, april 21, 2013, while it was sitting parked in my drive way, I noticed that the front passenger tire had a rather sizeable bubble in the sidewall. Fearing that it could burst, I decided that my best course of action was to slowly drive it to the dealership I purchased it at which is only about 5 miles from my home. Once they looked at it on monday, they informed me that I must have hit something and the tire needed to be replaced and it would cost me $200. …”

“In june 2012, my daughter was driving and her front passenger tire exploded. This was the 3rd set of new tires we had placed on this vehicle (by 30,000 miles - averaging 10,000 miles per set of tires). Then in july 2012, she was driving home and started to skid. She was not able to recover from the skid and hit a tree head-on. The front of her car was destroyed. The tree centered her car and the front end looked like a volkswagen bug. The air bags did not deploy. We had this vehicle into the dealership 3 times for problems with the front end. …”

“Driver side front tire lost pressure 2 twice in the week as indicated by tps. Then the tire lost all air overnight. Took tire for repair/ discovered that the tire was not repairable because it had side wall leak. Close inspection revealed some steel wire that had dislodged from its embedded position the surface of the tire. Also notices other areas where the steel wires were still embedded in the tire but also visible in some areas.”

“Driving a 2012 Ford Focus avis rental at approximately 5 MPH in a lowe's parking lot. I turned to park the vehicle and the sidewall of the left front tire, a continental -conti 215/55/16-conti pro, brushed the concrete curbing and the sidewall blew. The tire could not be repaired, had to be replaced. Avis wants $200+ to replace a tire that seems to have a serious sidewall problem; a tire that should not have been installed on a rental in the first place.”