Volvo S90 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 168 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Brakes32 (19.0%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2019–2021.
• Electrical system14 (8.3%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2017–2021.
• Speed control & accelerator14 (8.3%)
• Tires & wheels12 (7.1%)
• Driver-assistance systems10 (6.0%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2019–2025.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)10 (6.0%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2019–2025.

Other / uncategorized: 26 classifications (15.5%) 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 (120 records, model years 1998–2024) are most frequently classified under: brakes, speed control & accelerator and electrical system.
• Manufacturer communications (3,276 records, model years 1998–2024) 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

• 28reports included a mileage
• 56,911average 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 158 records for 1998 158
2. 2017 558 records for 2017 558
3. 2018 485 records for 2018 485
4. 2019 334 records for 2019 334
5. 2020 228 records for 2020 228
6. 2021 202 records for 2021 202
7. 2022 275 records for 2022 275
8. 2023 136 records for 2023 136
9. 2024 73 records for 2024 73
10. 2025 4 records for 2025 4

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
• 2mention a fire
• 4mention 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 39
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 3,276
• Investigations NHTSA 8
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 34
• Owner complaints NHTSA 120

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• U029D in 2 records · 2021–2022
• U029E in 2 records · 2021–2022
• U02A3 in 2 records · 2021–2022

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.