Car Problem DataNHTSA records

2001 Volvo VNL64T

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine › gasoline. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline2
010
Steering › Linkages › Drag › Link › Connection1
100

What owners reported

Newest filings
Steering › Linkages › Drag › Link › ConnectionCrash
Filed Oct 23, 2006650,000 milesIN

DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING 68 MPH ON A DRY 4 LANE HIGHWAY, THE DRIVER ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE LANES TO THE LEFT, AND THERE WAS NO REACTION FROM THE STEERING. THE STEERING WHEEL WAS ABLE TO BE TURNED, BUT THE VEHICLE DID NOT RESPOND AT ALL. THE BRAKES WERE APPLIED, HOWEVER THE VEHICLE COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER TRUCK, AND CROSSED INTO A GRASS MEDIAN WHICH STOPPED THE VEHICLE. A POLICE REPORT WAS TAKEN AT THE SCENE. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A SERVICE DEALER, WHO DETERMINED THAT THE TIE ROD DRAG LINKS HAD DETACHED FROM THE BALL JOINT. THE BOLT REMAINED INTACT, BUT THE PRESSURE BUSHING SEPARATED.

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline
Filed Aug 15, 2001MO

VEHICLE HAS A PROBLEM WITH OIL LEAKS, EVEN THOUGH VEHICLE IS STILL UNDER WARRANTY THE DEALER WILL NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY, NOW THE HEAD IS LEAKING OIL. *SLC

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › GasolineFire
Filed May 22, 2001NH

CONSUMER WAS IN HIS HOME WHEN THE SMOKE DECTECTOR WENT OFF, CONSUMER WENT OUTSIDE AND SAW THAT VEHICLE WAS ON FIRE, POSSIBLY ENGINE RELATED, FIRE ORIGINATED FROM VEHICLE AND SPREAD THROUGH CONSUMER'S HOME, BOTH THE VEHICLE AND HOME WERE DESTROYED. *JB

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1998
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20041000Routine
2001 — this page3010Routine
200011000Routine
199945000Routine
199863000Routine

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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.