Recall Register

Volvo WCA: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Volvo WCA, model years 1990 to 2002. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 5 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. 19901
  2. 19911
  3. 19921
  4. 19931
  5. 19943
  6. 19954
  7. 19965
  8. 19976
  9. 19984
  10. 19991
  11. 20001
  12. 20011
  13. 20021
Volvo WCA: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
2001 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
2000 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
1999 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
1998 Volvo WCA400%117,126
1997 Volvo WCA611300%119,977
1996 Volvo WCA500%104,547
1995 Volvo WCA400%107,350
1994 Volvo WCA300%101,316
1993 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
1992 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
1991 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532
1990 Volvo WCA NHTSA page100%5,532

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

1 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 WCA: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo WCA, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo WCA, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo WCA: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/wca/. 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 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 WCA model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 6, 1996 with 5, 1998 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo WCA model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo WCA name?
Electrical System: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo WCA?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.