Volvo C70 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 504 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Body & structure92 (18.3%)
• Electrical system76 (15.1%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1998–2000.
• Tires & wheels44 (8.7%)
• Speed control & accelerator36 (7.1%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1999–2002.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)32 (6.3%)
• Engine30 (6.0%)

Other / uncategorized: 54 classifications (10.7%) 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 (390 records, model years 1998–2013) are most frequently classified under: body & structure, electrical system and tires & wheels.
• Manufacturer communications (3,134 records, model years 1998–2013) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"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

• 278reports included a mileage
• 81,975average 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. 1998 230 records for 1998 230
2. 1999 216 records for 1999 216
3. 2000 224 records for 2000 224
4. 2001 190 records for 2001 190
5. 2002 174 records for 2002 174
6. 2003 165 records for 2003 165
7. 2004 180 records for 2004 180
8. 2006 212 records for 2006 212
9. 2007 227 records for 2007 227
10. 2008 221 records for 2008 221
11. 2009 194 records for 2009 194
12. 2010 190 records for 2010 190
13. 2011 196 records for 2011 196
14. 2012 208 records for 2012 208
15. 2013 197 records for 2013 197

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

• 12mention a crash
• 4mention a fire
• 10mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

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 42
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 3,134
• Investigations NHTSA 13
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 38
• Owner complaints NHTSA 390

Explore the underlying evidence records