Volvo 242: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Volvo 242, model years 1975 to 1983. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 3 of the 5 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 Volvo 242 NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 500% | |
| 1978 Volvo 242 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 28,000 |
| 1977 Volvo 242 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 89,000 |
| 1976 Volvo 242 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 299,273 |
| 1975 Volvo 242 | 9 | 0 | 0% | 474,273 |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
1 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 1,000 | 1 |
Counts by year
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- S706 campaigns
- 8505 campaigns
- S4012 campaigns
- V70XC4 campaigns
- XC7019 campaigns
- 9601 campaign
- 7406 campaigns
- XC6036 campaigns
- C7010 campaigns
- VNL64T0 campaigns
- 9403 campaigns
- VNL87 campaigns
- 7700 campaigns
- VN6100 campaigns
- VN7700 campaigns
- Volvo2 campaigns
- V405 campaigns
- Volvo Truck12 campaigns
- 7608 campaigns
- VN47 campaigns
- V508 campaigns
- S9013 campaigns
- WIA12 campaigns
- C304 campaigns
- 7802 campaigns
- 8544 campaigns
- V6016 campaigns
- 8554 campaigns
- WXR6 campaigns
- VHD61 campaigns
- V908 campaigns
- 24512 campaigns
- VNM45 campaigns
- WG23 campaigns
- 24412 campaigns
- XC4013 campaigns
- 7453 campaigns
- 7442 campaigns
- 9644 campaigns
- 9654 campaigns
- ACL19 campaigns
- VT16 campaigns
- WXLL11 campaigns
- WAH11 campaigns
- WX24 campaigns
- V60CC13 campaigns
- WCA9 campaigns
- S60CC3 campaigns
- FE72 campaigns
- VAH20 campaigns
- VNL (4)19 campaigns
- VNR17 campaigns
- FE10 campaigns
- VNRE (electric)7 campaigns
- V90CC9 campaigns
- F864 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Volvo 242: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/242/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 15 May 2019
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- VOLVO OF AMERICA CORP.
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Volvo 242 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1975 with 9, 1976 with 5, 1977 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Volvo 242 model year has the most complaints?
- The 1983 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Volvo 242 name?
- Suspension: 1 component mention.