1990 Volvo DL

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the steering › rack and pinion › rack. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Steering › Rack and Pinion › Rack1
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Automatic Transmission
Filed Aug 16, 2005NC

MY CAR WOULD STALL IN TRAFFIC, STALL WHILE IDLING AT STOP LIGHTS, VARIOUS THINGS WERE REPLACED IN THE LAST YEAR, INCLUDING THE SPEED SENSOR, AND IT STILL IS DOING IT. IT LOSES POWER AT TIMES WHILE MAINTAINING 60 MPH, SHIMMIES AND SHAKES AT IDLE WHEN STOPPED IN TRAFFIC, IT SOMETIMES "HICCIPS", APPEARS TO STOP THEN ACCELERATES AGAIN WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY. *NM

Steering › Rack and Pinion › Rack
Filed Feb 28, 1995MA

STEERING RACK REPLACED. *AW

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

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.