Consumer Complaint Detail

VOLVO / S70 / 1998

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 997083092 Incident Date: Dec, 02 1997
Consumer's City: OAKLAND Consumer's State: CA
Vehicle Transmission Type: Manufacturers Name: Volvo Car USA, LLC
Model Name: S70 Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Structure:body:door
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: YV1LS5643W2 Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Apr, 28 1999 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Sep, 30 1997
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: 1. 12/23/97: car died in slow freeway traffic; restarted after 5 minutes, but "check engine light" stayed on. diagnosed as problem with air mass sensor, which was replaced. 2. 11/11/98: right rear door lock failed; motor replaced. 3. each of front headlight bulbs burned out with less than 15k in mileage. 4. 1/13/99: rt and lt outer tail lights burned out; bulbs were replaced. 5. 3/3/99: right turn signal began flashing too quickly; both rt and lt turn signal sockets were replaced. 6. 4/28/99: tailights again failed, sockets and bulbs were replaced; 7. 4/29/99: left turn signal flashing too quickly (even though socket had been previously replaced on 3/3/99 to deal with anticipated corrusion problem). my wife and i have have had more service problems with this car than in 25 years of owning all of our other cars combined.