NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Ford Focus Recalls
The 2008 Ford Focus has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on November 21, 2007.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 Ford Focus. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 250
- Crashes reported
- 21
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 Ford Focus, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2008 Ford Focus
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 07V541000
- Reported
- November 21, 2007
- Vehicles affected
- up to 45
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 208, occupant crash protection
- Same campaign
- also 3 other models
Exterior lighting: headlights
- Campaign
- 08E050000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2007 Focus, 12 other models
2008 Ford Focus complaints by year
NHTSA has received 250 owner complaints about the 2008 Ford Focus, the newest on June 9, 2026. Of these, 21 describe a crash (8%); owners reported 20 injuries.
In complaints about the 2008 Ford Focus, the component group named most often is the electrical system (23%), followed by the structure (16%) and the air bags (10%).
1 of the 2008 Ford Focus's 2 recalls also concerns the air bags.
Where 2008 Ford Focus owners gave the mileage (199 complaints), the median was 61,640 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Electrical System57
- Structure41
- Air Bags26
- Latches/Locks/Linkages25
- Power Train23
- Suspension23
Complaints received, by year
| 2007 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | |
| 2009 | 13 | |
| 2010 | 23 | |
| 2011 | 26 | |
| 2012 | 19 | |
| 2013 | 19 | |
| 2014 | 36 | |
| 2015 | 14 | |
| 2016 | 29 | |
| 2017 | 19 | |
| 2018 | 10 | |
| 2019 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 7 | |
| 2021 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 2 | |
| 2026 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2008 Ford Focus peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 36. 29% arrived between 2007 and 2011, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2008 vehicles, the 2008 Ford Focus drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Ford Focus year in the same window: 17th highest of the 19 ranked years.
That makes 2008 one of the three best-measured Ford Focus years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
The 250 complaints about the 2008 Ford Focus are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Ford Focus by model year
Other 2008 Ford models
Newest record on this page: June 9, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted