Recall Register

Volvo 960: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Volvo 960, model years 1990 to 1997. NHTSA has 179 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 7 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. 19900
  2. 19920
  3. 19930
  4. 19940
  5. 19951
  6. 19960
  7. 19970
Volvo 960: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1997 Volvo 960 NHTSA page01974%
1996 Volvo 960056219%
1995 Volvo 960156219%132
1994 Volvo 960 NHTSA page01974%
1993 Volvo 960 NHTSA page0727%
1992 Volvo 960 NHTSA page02182%
1990 Volvo 960 NHTSA page014%

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

252 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 960: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling202.451
Service Brakes, Hydraulic115.129
Air Bags95.224
Electrical System91.323
Vehicle Speed Control79.420
Steering59.515
Fuel System, Gasoline59.515
Tires39.710
Structure39.710
Seat Belts35.79

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo 960, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Volvo 960, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 27 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo 960: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/960/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 960 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo 960 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 56 of the 179 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo 960 name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 202.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 115.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 95.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo 960?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.