Recall Register

Volvo Volvo Truck: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Volvo Volvo Truck, model years 1977 to 2002. NHTSA has 66 complaints on file for this model line. 13 of the 23 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. 19772
  2. 19782
  3. 19793
  4. 19803
  5. 19813
  6. 19823
  7. 19834
  8. 19842
  9. 19852
  10. 19861
  11. 19871
  12. 19880
  13. 19901
  14. 19930
  15. 19941
  16. 19951
  17. 19963
  18. 19973
  19. 19983
  20. 19991
  21. 20002
  22. 20011
  23. 20020
Volvo Volvo Truck: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page0270%
2001 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page13105%208
2000 Volvo Volvo Truck27244%211
1999 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page112418%208
1998 Volvo Volvo Truck313453%752
1997 Volvo Volvo Truck33105%752
1996 Volvo Volvo Truck35174%758
1995 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page110348%382
1994 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page15174%382
1993 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page0270%
1990 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page1135%214
1988 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page03105%
1987 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page100%14
1986 Volvo Volvo Truck NHTSA page100%19,921
1985 Volvo Volvo Truck200%29,314
1984 Volvo Volvo Truck200%29,314
1983 Volvo Volvo Truck400%38,487
1982 Volvo Volvo Truck300%9,214
1981 Volvo Volvo Truck300%9,622
1980 Volvo Volvo Truck300%9,622
1979 Volvo Volvo Truck300%9,622
1978 Volvo Volvo Truck200%9,173
1977 Volvo Volvo Truck200%9,173

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

104 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 Volvo Truck: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension365.438
Electrical System12513
Engine and Engine Cooling96.210
Steering76.98
Power Train67.37
Service Brakes, Air57.76
Visibility38.54
Unknown or Other38.54
Tires28.83
Latches/Locks/Linkages19.22

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo Volvo Truck, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo Volvo Truck, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 26 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo Volvo Truck: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/volvo-truck/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
VOLVO GM HEAVY TRUCK CORP

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 Volvo Truck model years have the most recall campaigns?
1983 with 4, 1998 with 3, 1997 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo Volvo Truck model year has the most complaints?
The 1998 model year, with 13 of the 66 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo Volvo Truck name?
Suspension: 365.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 125 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 96.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo Volvo Truck?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.