Recall Register

Volvo WAH: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Volvo WAH, model years 1988 to 2000. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 13 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. 19881
  2. 19891
  3. 19901
  4. 19911
  5. 19921
  6. 19931
  7. 19942
  8. 19953
  9. 19961
  10. 19975
  11. 19984
  12. 19994
  13. 20002
Volvo WAH: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Volvo WAH21650%38,277
1999 Volvo WAH41650%39,096
1998 Volvo WAH400%129,956
1997 Volvo WAH500%130,879
1996 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%95,013
1995 Volvo WAH300%103,503
1994 Volvo WAH200%97,469
1993 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633
1992 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633
1991 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633
1990 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633
1989 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633
1988 Volvo WAH NHTSA page100%3,633

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

4 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 WAH: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train5002
Service Brakes, Air2501
Suspension2501

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo WAH, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo WAH, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo WAH: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/wah/. 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 TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA 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 WAH model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 5, 1999 with 4, 1998 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo WAH model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 1 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo WAH name?
Power Train: 2 component mentions. Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention. Suspension: 1 component mention.