Recall Register

Volvo 265: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Volvo 265, model years 1975 to 1978. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 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. 19751
  2. 19765
  3. 19771
  4. 19781
Volvo 265: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1978 Volvo 265 NHTSA page1028,000
1977 Volvo 265 NHTSA page1028,000
1976 Volvo 26550299,273
1975 Volvo 265 NHTSA page1057,000

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.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo 265, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Volvo 265, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo 265: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/265/. 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 265 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1976 with 5, 1978 with 1, 1977 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo 265 model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.