Recall Register

Volvo 245: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Volvo 245, model years 1975 to 1993. NHTSA has 10 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 13 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.

  1. 19759
  2. 19765
  3. 19772
  4. 19781
  5. 19820
  6. 19830
  7. 19850
  8. 19861
  9. 19871
  10. 19880
  11. 19890
  12. 19921
  13. 19930
Volvo 245: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1993 Volvo 245 NHTSA page01130%
1992 Volvo 245 NHTSA page11130%7,526
1989 Volvo 245 NHTSA page03390%
1988 Volvo 245 NHTSA page01130%
1987 Volvo 245 NHTSA page11130%34,811
1986 Volvo 245 NHTSA page100%34,811
1985 Volvo 245 NHTSA page01130%
1983 Volvo 245 NHTSA page01130%
1982 Volvo 245 NHTSA page01130%
1978 Volvo 245 NHTSA page100%28,000
1977 Volvo 245200%89,000
1976 Volvo 245500%299,273
1975 Volvo 245900%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

15 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.

Volvo 245: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling466.77
Vehicle Speed Control133.32
Electrical System66.71
Seat Belts66.71
Seats66.71
Fuel System, Gasoline66.71
Tires66.71
Visibility66.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo 245, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Volvo 245, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo 245: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/245/. 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 245 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 245 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 3 of the 10 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo 245 name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 7 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 2 component mentions. Electrical System: 1 component mention.