P0420 on FORD FOCUS

"Vehicle has difficulty starting after refuel. Vehicle stalls randomly to the point that is too much of a danger to drive. All of the symptoms correlate to recall (18S32) yet this particular vehicles vin was not listed in the list of recalled vehicles. The DTC's are as follows,P0420, P0456, P1450."

"Vehicle is reading code p0420 indicating hat the catalytic converter is operating under threshold. light would turn on and off periodically until it finally remained turned on and soon after the vehicle started struggling to drive up hills and the gas milage has decreased."

""purge valve"-my vehicle was taken into red mccombs ford due to a p0420 code which is a problem with the catalytic converter. before the engine light came on, i had not had any performance issues or noticed any problems while driving or idling on any type of road."

""ford purge valve" my 2012 ford focus was incorrectly diagnosed at longmont ford for a p0420 fault code. my complaint was a rough idle at times, vehicle dies at times when coming to a stop."

"Faulty canister purge valve caused vehicle to stall and shut down while driving on public roads. Canister purge valve is also causing check engine code P0420. Catalytic converter is also giving out while operating causing a lot of white smoke from the exhaust and catalytic converter."