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Model years to avoid

Volvo S60

What it says about you

Opinion

You did not want to be seen wanting a German car, so you found the one that says the same thing more quietly. The seats are better than everyone else's and you know it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

20 model years on record, 631 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (tires), 2015 (low oil), 2013 (quarts), 2012 (low oil). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • oil 2012, 2013 peak 40% of that year's complaints
  • local 2015, 2019 peak 17.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2025 2 recalls 0 complaints
  2. 2024 3 recalls 18 complaints
  3. 2023 6 recalls 3 complaints
  4. 2022 4 recalls 45 complaints
  5. 2021 3 recalls 21 complaints
  6. 2020 4 recalls 24 complaints
  7. 2019 tires 69 complaints
  8. 2018 1 recall 4 complaints
  9. 2017 5 recalls 15 complaints
  10. 2016 4 recalls 26 complaints
  11. 2015 low oil 57 complaints
  12. 2014 3 recalls 25 complaints
  13. 2013 quarts 85 complaints
  14. 2012 low oil 121 complaints
  15. 2011 6 recalls 5 complaints
  16. 2009 3 recalls 7 complaints
  17. 2008 2 recalls 10 complaints
  18. 2007 2 recalls 21 complaints
  19. 2006 4 recalls 31 complaints
  20. 2005 4 recalls 44 complaints

What does a Volvo S60 say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.