Volvo XC90: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 35 recall campaigns for the Volvo XC90, model years 2003 to 2025. NHTSA has 962 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 23 model years have a page on this register.

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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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Volvo XC90: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2025 Volvo XC90	2	0	0%	826,302
2024 Volvo XC90	3	0	0%	829,213
2023 Volvo XC90	6	0	0%	872,737
2022 Volvo XC90	4	0	0%	26,142
2021 Volvo XC90	6	0	0%	32,509
2020 Volvo XC90	7	0	0%	217,794
2019 Volvo XC90	6	1	2%	227,850
2018 Volvo XC90	3	8	19%	20,621
2017 Volvo XC90	7	16	38%	150,195
2016 Volvo XC90	8	53	127%	189,581
2015 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	1	0	0%	2,911
2014 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	0	2	5%
2013 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	0	11	26%
2012 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	0	2	5%
2011 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	1	12	29%	350
2010 Volvo XC90	3	7	17%	3,260
2009 Volvo XC90 NHTSA page	1	5	12%	416
2008 Volvo XC90	3	24	57%	37,518
2007 Volvo XC90	2	32	77%	37,416
2006 Volvo XC90	3	41	98%	249,590
2005 Volvo XC90	6	215	514%	460,793
2004 Volvo XC90	6	442	1057%	429,601
2003 Volvo XC90	5	91	218%	427,015

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

1,408 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 XC90: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Electrical System	207.4	292
Power Train	200.3	282
Engine	66.1	93
Engine and Engine Cooling	56.1	79
Exterior Lighting	46.9	66
Fuel System, Gasoline	41.2	58
Fuel/Propulsion System	41.2	58
Unknown or Other	32	45
Air Bags	31.3	44
Structure	30.5	43

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volvo XC90, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 5 campaigns.

Complaints about the Volvo XC90, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 139 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

S6040 campaigns
V7022 campaigns
S8027 campaigns
S706 campaigns
8505 campaigns
S4012 campaigns
V70XC4 campaigns
XC7019 campaigns
9601 campaign
7406 campaigns
XC6036 campaigns
C7010 campaigns
VNL64T0 campaigns
9403 campaigns
VNL87 campaigns
7700 campaigns
VN6100 campaigns
VN7700 campaigns
Volvo2 campaigns
V405 campaigns
Volvo Truck12 campaigns
7608 campaigns
VN47 campaigns
V508 campaigns
S9013 campaigns
WIA12 campaigns
C304 campaigns
7802 campaigns
8544 campaigns
V6016 campaigns
8554 campaigns
WXR6 campaigns
VHD61 campaigns
V908 campaigns
24512 campaigns
VNM45 campaigns
WG23 campaigns
24412 campaigns
XC4013 campaigns
7453 campaigns
7442 campaigns
9644 campaigns
9654 campaigns
ACL19 campaigns
VT16 campaigns
WXLL11 campaigns
WAH11 campaigns
WX24 campaigns
V60CC13 campaigns
WCA9 campaigns
24210 campaigns
S60CC3 campaigns
FE72 campaigns
VAH20 campaigns
VNL (4)19 campaigns
VNR17 campaigns
FE10 campaigns
VNRE (electric)7 campaigns
V90CC9 campaigns
F864 campaigns

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Volvo XC90: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volvo/xc90/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

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 CARS OF N.A. 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 XC90 model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2016 with 8, 2020 with 7, 2017 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volvo XC90 model year has the most complaints?: The 2004 model year, with 442 of the 962 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volvo XC90 name?: Electrical System: 207.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 200.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 66.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volvo XC90?: 6 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.