2024 Volvo XC90
This year drew an ordinary 68 complaints for a Volvo XC90 — the model's median is 51. What they were about is the unusual part: 50% of them mention times, against 12.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Volvo XC90, which began in 2016. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 68 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 51 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- times — 50% of this year's complaints, against 12.8% across the other years of this generation (3.9×).
- collision — 52.9% of this year's complaints, against 21.1% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: collision, reversing, audible, blind.
- several — 35.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the other years of this generation (4.8×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Park fails to engage when pressing the P button adjacent to the shifter. It will, however, engage 100% of the time when applying additional pressure. The button doesn’t actually travel any further when applying the additional pressure, but park will engage. It…
while reversing, the audible back over warning alarm did not active as designed. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer who was unable to duplicate the failure. The contact stated that technicians from t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V827000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V282000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V908000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Volvo XC90 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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