Recall Register

Volvo C70: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Volvo C70, model years 1998 to 2013. NHTSA has 135 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 15 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. 19984
  2. 19993
  3. 20003
  4. 20012
  5. 20021
  6. 20030
  7. 20040
  8. 20062
  9. 20074
  10. 20083
  11. 20093
  12. 20102
  13. 20111
  14. 20121
  15. 20130
Volvo C70: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Volvo C70 NHTSA page0222%
2012 Volvo C70 NHTSA page1444%20,611
2011 Volvo C70 NHTSA page1556%20,611
2010 Volvo C702333%21,027
2009 Volvo C703667%22,047
2008 Volvo C70312133%22,047
2007 Volvo C70412133%29,969
2006 Volvo C702889%21,027
2004 Volvo C70 NHTSA page013144%
2003 Volvo C70 NHTSA page0333%
2002 Volvo C70 NHTSA page1556%170,099
2001 Volvo C702778%415,993
2000 Volvo C70325278%512,993
1999 Volvo C70323256%512,993
1998 Volvo C704778%606,863

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

180 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 C70: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System161.129
Structure105.619
Vehicle Speed Control10018
Power Train66.712
Wheels66.712
Tires61.111
Engine and Engine Cooling61.111
Steering509
Unknown or Other509
Service Brakes, Hydraulic33.36

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo C70, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo C70, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 27 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo C70: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/c70/. 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 N.A. LLC.

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 C70 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2007 with 4, 1998 with 4, 2009 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo C70 model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 25 of the 135 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo C70 name?
Electrical System: 161.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 105.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 100 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo C70?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.