Recall Register

Volvo WIA: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Volvo WIA, model years 1988 to 2002. NHTSA has 29 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 15 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. 19902
  4. 19912
  5. 19922
  6. 19932
  7. 19943
  8. 19954
  9. 19967
  10. 19976
  11. 19984
  12. 19991
  13. 20001
  14. 20011
  15. 20021
Volvo WIA: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Volvo WIA NHTSA page100%5,532
2001 Volvo WIA NHTSA page100%5,532
2000 Volvo WIA NHTSA page100%5,532
1999 Volvo WIA NHTSA page1152%5,532
1998 Volvo WIA4152%117,126
1997 Volvo WIA68414%119,977
1996 Volvo WIA78414%104,628
1995 Volvo WIA47362%107,350
1994 Volvo WIA300%101,316
1993 Volvo WIA23155%9,165
1992 Volvo WIA200%9,165
1991 Volvo WIA200%9,165
1990 Volvo WIA200%9,165
1989 Volvo WIA NHTSA page1152%3,633
1988 Volvo WIA 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

91 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 WIA: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension219.820
Electrical System153.814
Power Train131.912
Engine and Engine Cooling76.97
Structure76.97
Steering65.96
Equipment54.95
Visibility444
Service Brakes, Air444
Unknown or Other333

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo WIA, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo WIA, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 11 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo WIA: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/wia/. 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 WIA model years have the most recall campaigns?
1996 with 7, 1997 with 6, 1998 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo WIA model year has the most complaints?
The 1996 model year, with 8 of the 29 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo WIA name?
Suspension: 219.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 153.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 131.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo WIA?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.