Recall Register

Volvo XC70: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Volvo XC70, model years 2001 to 2016. NHTSA has 347 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 16 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. 20015
  2. 20024
  3. 20034
  4. 20043
  5. 20052
  6. 20062
  7. 20072
  8. 20088
  9. 20095
  10. 20105
  11. 20113
  12. 20122
  13. 20132
  14. 20142
  15. 20151
  16. 20162
Volvo XC70: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2016 Volvo XC702314%316,115
2015 Volvo XC70 NHTSA page115%308,260
2014 Volvo XC70215%316,027
2013 Volvo XC702418%308,546
2012 Volvo XC702732%340,812
2011 Volvo XC703941%324,052
2010 Volvo XC7051151%331,094
2009 Volvo XC7051151%338,962
2008 Volvo XC70831143%344,468
2007 Volvo XC7021988%194,962
2006 Volvo XC7021360%194,962
2005 Volvo XC70225115%194,962
2004 Volvo XC70387401%353,695
2003 Volvo XC70424111%574,102
2002 Volvo XC70435161%574,102
2001 Volvo XC70566304%744,201

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

429 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 XC70: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train156.267
Suspension104.945
Electrical System90.939
Fuel System, Gasoline83.936
Vehicle Speed Control79.334
Fuel/Propulsion System74.632
Engine and Engine Cooling44.319
Seat Belts39.617
Wheels3515
Engine32.614

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo XC70, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2009, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volvo XC70, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2011, with 42 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volvo: all 86 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo XC70: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/xc70/. 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 XC70 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 8, 2010 with 5, 2009 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo XC70 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 87 of the 347 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo XC70 name?
Power Train: 156.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 104.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 90.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo XC70?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.