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2015 Volvo S60

Complaints about this year name low oil far more often than the other years of this generation — 14% of them, about 35× the usual rate of 0.4%.

Generation 2 of the Volvo S60, which began in 2011 and ran to 2018. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• local dealer — 10.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: local dealer, dealer who.
• flashed — 7% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.2×).

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.

Also unusual this year

• park — 14% of complaints, 12× usual
• warning light — 11% of complaints, 26× usual
• brake — 18% of complaints, 5× usual

What owners wrote

while driving 20 MPH, the brake pedal was depressed however, the vehicle failed to stop until the brake pedal had gone to the floorboard. There was no warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but no failure was found. The contact stated…

while driving approximately 15 MPH and slowing down for a crosswalk with pedestrians in the crosswalk, the vehicle independently accelerated while depressing the brake pedal. The contact stated that she had not noticed any warning lights being illuminated. The…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 20V378000 SEAT BELTS
• 19V849000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.

Own a 2015 Volvo S60? What happened to yours?

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Volvo S60 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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