Consumer Complaint Detail

VOLVO / 740 / 1990

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 0000056946 Incident Date: Jan, 01 1970
Consumer's City: BETHESDA Consumer's State: MD
Vehicle Transmission Type: Manufacturers Name: Volvo Car USA, LLC
Model Name: 740 Model Year: 1990
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Vehicle speed control
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: YV1FA8758L2 Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Oct, 20 2000 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Jul, 31 1991
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Unintentional acceleration. driver sitting in a carpool pickup line with car turned off. driver started car in order to move it forward about 25 feet( then the intention was to turn it off and sit and wait another 10 minutes until school got out). driver put car in drive and went to give car some gas and the car lunged forward, engine completly reved. tried to jam on brakes but the car engine still totally reved. smashed into ford expedition in front of me. air bag deployed hitting stomach only.