Recall Register

Volvo 780: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Volvo 780, model years 1987 to 2016. NHTSA has 26 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 12 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. 19871
  2. 19881
  3. 19892
  4. 19902
  5. 19911
  6. 19990
  7. 20040
  8. 20050
  9. 20060
  10. 20090
  11. 20100
  12. 20160
Volvo 780: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2016 Volvo 780 NHTSA page0292%
2010 Volvo 780 NHTSA page0146%
2009 Volvo 780 NHTSA page03138%
2006 Volvo 780 NHTSA page0146%
2005 Volvo 780 NHTSA page0146%
2004 Volvo 780 NHTSA page05231%
1999 Volvo 780 NHTSA page0146%
1991 Volvo 780 NHTSA page13138%9,684
1990 Volvo 7802146%28,970
1989 Volvo 78023138%28,970
1988 Volvo 780 NHTSA page13138%9,684
1987 Volvo 780 NHTSA page1292%9,684

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

39 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 780: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering153.86
Seats128.25
Engine and Engine Cooling102.64
Visibility76.93
Suspension76.93
Air Bags76.93
Fuel System, Gasoline51.32
Vehicle Speed Control51.32
Service Brakes, Hydraulic51.32
Structure51.32

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo 780, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Volvo 780, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo 780: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/780/. 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 CARS OF NA, INC.

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 780 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 2, 1989 with 2, 1991 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo 780 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 5 of the 26 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo 780 name?
Steering: 6 component mentions. Seats: 5 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo 780?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.