Volvo Car USA LLC: Air Bags › Frontal › Driver Side › Inflator Module
Volvo Car USA LLC reported this defect to federal regulators on Nov 4, 2020 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 54,124. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.
The defect
Volvo Car USA LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2001-2003 S80 and S60 vehicles sold or ever registered in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The driver side frontal air bag inflator may rupture, sending metal fragments into the passage compartment, when the driver side air bag is deployed.
The risk
Metal fragments can strike vehicle occupants increasing the risk of serious injury or death.
The remedy
Volvo Car will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver side air bag module, free of charge. The recall began April 20, 2021. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10058.
6 model years covered
Newest first| Vehicle | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 Volvo S60 | 120 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 Volvo S80 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 Volvo S60 | 186 | 9 | 3 | 4 |
| 2002 Volvo S80 | 42 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 2001 Volvo S60 | 223 | 9 | 5 | 5 |
| 2001 Volvo S80 | 164 | 8 | 2 | 7 |
What this page is, and what to do next
A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.
This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 20V681000.
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