2022 Volvo S60
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Volvo S60 — the model's median is 21. What they were about is the unusual part: 46.7% of them mention other, against 16.5% across the model's other years.
Generation 3 of the Volvo S60, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 21 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- other — 46.7% of this year's complaints, against 16.5% across the model's other years (2.8×).
- fix — 26.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (7.6×).
- reversing — 13.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (66.7×).
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
This incident only occurs when placing the vehicle into drive after first having reversed. It happens intermittently. After reversing, the vehicle is stopped, place into B, which is drive with extra regenerative braking, and then the accelerator is press. The…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V682000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V793000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V780000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V179000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
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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