Recall Register

Volvo XC60: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 36 recall campaigns for the Volvo XC60, model years 2009 to 2025. NHTSA has 135 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 17 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. 20091
  2. 20107
  3. 20114
  4. 20123
  5. 20133
  6. 20142
  7. 20151
  8. 20163
  9. 20174
  10. 20185
  11. 20198
  12. 20206
  13. 20215
  14. 20226
  15. 20235
  16. 20242
  17. 20253
Volvo XC60: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Volvo XC60300%826,305
2024 Volvo XC60200%826,302
2023 Volvo XC60500%869,826
2022 Volvo XC60600%868,682
2021 Volvo XC60500%29,598
2020 Volvo XC60600%301,947
2019 Volvo XC60800%360,462
2018 Volvo XC6058101%153,064
2017 Volvo XC604225%92,063
2016 Volvo XC603563%390,142
2015 Volvo XC60 NHTSA page123290%308,260
2014 Volvo XC602788%316,027
2013 Volvo XC60313164%308,276
2012 Volvo XC60315189%343,554
2011 Volvo XC60423290%331,472
2010 Volvo XC60739491%341,426
2009 Volvo XC60 NHTSA page100%308,260

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

190 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 XC60: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Unknown or Other163.231
Electrical System126.324
Visibility/Wiper73.714
Structure68.413
Engine57.911
Steering52.610
Vehicle Speed Control47.49
Air Bags47.49
Wheels42.18
Service Brakes42.18

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo XC60, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2009, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo XC60, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 23 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo XC60: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/xc60/. 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 Car USA 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 XC60 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 8, 2010 with 7, 2022 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo XC60 model year has the most complaints?
The 2010 model year, with 39 of the 135 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo XC60 name?
Unknown or Other: 163.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 126.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility/Wiper: 73.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo XC60?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.