Recall Register

Volvo 854: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Volvo 854, model years 1994 to 1997. NHTSA has 23 complaints on file for this model line. 3 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. 19940
  2. 19952
  3. 19962
  4. 19972
Volvo 854: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1997 Volvo 85427122%77,530
1996 Volvo 8542587%77,530
1995 Volvo 85429157%31,790
1994 Volvo 854 NHTSA page0235%

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

28 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 854: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic178.65
Fuel System, Gasoline142.94
Engine and Engine Cooling142.94
Electrical System142.94
Air Bags107.13
Power Train107.13
Fuel/Propulsion System71.42
Visibility35.71
Tires35.71
Steering35.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo 854, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo 854, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo 854: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/854/. 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 854 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 2, 1996 with 2, 1995 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo 854 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 9 of the 23 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo 854 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 5 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 4 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo 854?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.