2012 Volvo S60 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 167 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine62 (37.1%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2003–2023.
• Electrical system17 (10.2%)Official recall records for this system: 11, covering model years 2001–2023.
• Seat belts9 (5.4%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 2009–2022.
• Fuel system8 (4.8%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 2001–2020.
• Steering8 (4.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2004.
• Body & structure7 (4.2%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2012.

Other / uncategorized: 15 classifications (9.0%) 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 (2,526 records, model years 2001–2024) are most frequently classified under: engine, fuel system and electrical system.
• Safety recalls (146 records, model years 2001–2025) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), equipment & accessories and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (111 records, model years 2001–2025) are most frequently classified under: brakes, seat belts and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).
• Manufacturer communications (6,117 records, model years 2001–2024) 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

• 84reports included a mileage
• 73,476average 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. 2001 486 records for 2001 486
2. 2002 384 records for 2002 384
3. 2003 308 records for 2003 308
4. 2004 390 records for 2004 390
5. 2005 223 records for 2005 223
6. 2006 206 records for 2006 206
7. 2007 204 records for 2007 204
8. 2008 189 records for 2008 189
9. 2009 182 records for 2009 182
10. 2011 269 records for 2011 269
11. 2012 404 records for 2012 404
12. 2013 362 records for 2013 362
13. 2014 300 records for 2014 300
14. 2015 400 records for 2015 400
15. 2016 403 records for 2016 403
16. 2017 297 records for 2017 297
17. 2018 208 records for 2018 208
18. 2019 318 records for 2019 318
19. 2020 251 records for 2020 251
20. 2021 215 records for 2021 215
21. 2022 227 records for 2022 227
22. 2023 158 records for 2023 158
23. 2024 101 records for 2024 101
24. 2025 5 records for 2025 5

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

• 8mention a crash
• 13mention an injury

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 8
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 268
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 7
• Owner complaints NHTSA 121

Explore the underlying evidence records