Recall · 20V503000
Volvo Car USA recalled the VOLVO XC60 over visibility
87,226
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
August 25, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES
- The defect
- Volvo Car of N.A., LLC (Volvo Cars) is recalling certain 2018-2020 XC60 vehicles. The nuts that secure the front wipers may not have been sufficiently tightened, possibly causing the wipers to not function properly.
- What it can cause
- The risk of the front wiper arms nut fixation to loosen and not holding the arm in correct position, the wiper function could be reduced and vision could be impaired, thus increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Volvo Car will notify owners, and dealers will tighten the nuts holding the front windshield wiper arms in position, free of charge. The recall began September 29, 2020. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10044.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 87,226 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volvo vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 10 times before this, most recently in May 2016 as 16V268000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 94 complaints with NHTSA, 19 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2018, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V818000 (seats), 25V179000 (electrical system), 23V001000 (steering), 21V716000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volvo Car USA LLC with NHTSA on August 25, 2020 as campaign 20V503000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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