Recall Register

Volvo V70XC: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Volvo V70XC, model years 1998 to 2007. NHTSA has 410 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 10 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. 19981
  2. 19992
  3. 20002
  4. 20011
  5. 20021
  6. 20030
  7. 20040
  8. 20050
  9. 20060
  10. 20070
Volvo V70XC: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2007 Volvo V70XC NHTSA page0410%
2006 Volvo V70XC NHTSA page037%
2005 Volvo V70XC NHTSA page037%
2004 Volvo V70XC NHTSA page0512%
2003 Volvo V70XC NHTSA page01127%
2002 Volvo V70XC12766%3,242
2001 Volvo V70XC1144351%149,799
2000 Volvo V70XC2103251%267,099
1999 Volvo V70XC279193%267,099
1998 Volvo V70XC13176%97,000

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

520 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 V70XC: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Vehicle Speed Control225117
Electrical System161.584
Power Train128.867
Engine and Engine Cooling90.447
Fuel System, Gasoline90.447
Suspension42.322
Service Brakes, Hydraulic30.816
Exterior Lighting26.914
Fuel/Propulsion System2513
Latches/Locks/Linkages19.210

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo V70XC, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo V70XC, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 185 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo V70XC: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/v70xc/. 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 V70XC model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 2, 1999 with 2, 2002 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo V70XC model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 144 of the 410 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo V70XC name?
Vehicle Speed Control: 225 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 161.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 128.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo V70XC?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.