Recall Register

1993 Volvo 850: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1993 Volvo 850. NHTSA has 73 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1993 Volvo 850. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 73 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

73 complaints, 96 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.

  • 1993 Volvo 850
  • All 1993 vehicles
1993 Volvo 850: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1993 850All 1993 vehicles850, all yearsMentions
Power Train291.784.999.728
Air Bags12534.757.412
Electrical System93.882.299.79
Engine and Engine Cooling83.3140.475.18
Equipment72.921.947.87
Structure62.545.134.26
Steering52.134.134.25
Fuel System, Gasoline52.152.575.15
Service Brakes, Hydraulic41.7185.6132.54
Exterior Lighting20.832.620.52

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 19.

Complaints that report a crash
3
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
3
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
30 May 2008

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1993 Volvo 850, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 11 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1993 Volvo 850
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA03008Engineering analysisFUEL TANK LEAKSFuel System, Gasoline / Storage11 Jun 200328 Jul 200404V368000
PE03003Preliminary evaluationFUEL TANK LEAKSFuel System, Gasoline / Storage / Tank Assembly16 Jan 200311 Jun 2003

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19930
  2. 19942
  3. 19952
  4. 19962
  5. 19973
  6. 19990
  7. 20000

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1993 Volvo 850: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/850/1993/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
VOLVO CARS OF N.A. LLC.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Volvo 850 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Volvo 850, model years 1993 to 2000. None of them names the 1993 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1993 Volvo 850 name most often?
Power Train: 28 of 96 component mentions, or 291.7 per 1,000. For all 1993 vehicles the figure is 84.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1993 Volvo 850 open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.