1998 Volvo 940

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Tires › Tread/Belt	1		0	0	0
Air Bags › Frontal	1		1	0	1

What owners reported

Newest filings

Tires › Tread/Belt

Filed May 22, 200772,889 milesAR

MICHELIN TIRES CUSTOMER STATES THAT THE TIRES ARE DEFECTIVE AND HAS BEEN REPLACED MANY TIMES**NAR**CC THE CONSUMER STATED MOST OF THE TIRES SUFFERED TREAD SEPARATION. THE CONSUMER STATED MICHELIN HAS DISCONTINUED THE TIRES, WHICH LED HER TO BELIEVE THEY KNEW THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE TIRES. *JB THE CONSUMER STATED THE FLAT TIRE THAT WAS REPAIRED WAS NOT DONE PROPERLY. THE PATCH WAS APPLIED WITHOUT BUFFING THE TIRE TO ENSURE THE REAPER WOULD ADHERE. UPDATED 06/06/07. *JB

Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured

Filed Oct 15, 2002MA

CONSUMER STATES THAT WHILE DRIVING AT 5 MPH THE CONSUMER WAS HIT NEAR THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE THE FRONT AIR BAGS DEPLOYED AND THE CONSUMER SUFFERED SOME MINOR ABRASIONS. CONTACTED DEALER. MR

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
1998 — this page	2	0	0	Routine
1997	1	0	0	Routine
1995	27	0	0	Routine
1994	41	0	0	Routine
1993	23	1	2	Routine
1992	16	0	0	Routine
1991	11	2	3	Routine
1990	1	0	0	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.