Volvo C30 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 120 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)34 (28.3%)
• Speed control & accelerator10 (8.3%)
• Tires & wheels10 (8.3%)
• Engine8 (6.7%)
• Body & structure8 (6.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2011.
• Suspension8 (6.7%)

Other / uncategorized: 12 classifications (10.0%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (96 records, model years 2008–2013) are most frequently classified under: visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors), tires & wheels and speed control & accelerator.
• Manufacturer communications (1,329 records, model years 2008–2013) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and tires & wheels.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 54reports included a mileage
• 56,099average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2008 206 records for 2008 206
2. 2009 188 records for 2009 188
3. 2010 193 records for 2010 193
4. 2011 205 records for 2011 205
5. 2012 188 records for 2012 188
6. 2013 188 records for 2013 188

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 6mention a crash

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 10
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,329
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 12
• Owner complaints NHTSA 96

Explore the underlying evidence records