Recall Register

Volvo S80: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the Volvo S80, model years 1999 to 2016. NHTSA has 675 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 18 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. 19994
  2. 20004
  3. 20017
  4. 20024
  5. 20035
  6. 20044
  7. 20055
  8. 20063
  9. 20075
  10. 20087
  11. 20095
  12. 20105
  13. 20114
  14. 20123
  15. 20133
  16. 20141
  17. 20152
  18. 20162
Volvo S80: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2016 Volvo S80200%316,115
2015 Volvo S80200%316,027
2014 Volvo S80 NHTSA page100%308,260
2013 Volvo S80300%310,015
2012 Volvo S80300%342,281
2011 Volvo S80400%325,521
2010 Volvo S80525%334,050
2009 Volvo S80500%341,918
2008 Volvo S80725%354,323
2007 Volvo S80513%333,020
2006 Volvo S80338%279,499
2005 Volvo S80525%448,491
2004 Volvo S8041745%448,518
2003 Volvo S8051437%693,063
2002 Volvo S8042361%472,656
2001 Volvo S807150400%795,830
2000 Volvo S804281749%369,802
1999 Volvo S804180480%395,262

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

914 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 S80: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Vehicle Speed Control211.2193
Engine and Engine Cooling148.8136
Electrical System133.5122
Fuel System, Gasoline8174
Suspension74.468
Power Train73.367
Service Brakes, Hydraulic48.144
Steering4642
Air Bags32.830
Visibility31.729

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo S80, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2009, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo S80, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 253 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo S80: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/s80/. 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 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 S80 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 7, 2001 with 7, 2010 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo S80 model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 281 of the 675 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo S80 name?
Vehicle Speed Control: 211.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 148.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 133.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo S80?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.