LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH
A door that is not securely latched could open while the vehicle is in motion, increasing the risk of injury to a vehicle occupant.
3 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations, 1,039 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
A door that is not securely latched could open while the vehicle is in motion, increasing the risk of injury to a vehicle occupant.
A door that is not securely latched could open while the vehicle is in motion, increasing the risk of injury to a vehicle occupant.
An occupant in the right rear seating position will not have coverage from the side curtain air bag in a side impact collision when the front passenger seat is empty, increasing the risk of injury to the right rear occupant.
Two 2011 FORD FIESTAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.