Volvo

The risk

The product poses a risk of injuries because the engine cooling fan may permanently stop working due to a software error in the Fan Control Module (FCM). If the fan stops it may cause reduced Air Condition (AC) performance and the driver will normally be informed of the increased coolant temperature by a yellow information lamp and the following written message: "reduce speed". However, if the engine temperature continues to rise, a red warning lamp will light up and text instructions will indicate that the car should be stopped safely. In this specific failure mode, the deviation may lead to a rapid increase in coolant temperature and the driver may not notice the indication lamps and the text messages. The situation could result in boiling coolant, loss of coolant and eventually engine damage or engine break down, which may lead to accidents.

Product: The recall concerns XC60/S80/V70/XC70 cars (model year 2008-2009), equipped with engines B6324S/B6304T2/B8444S/D5244T4/D5244T5/D5244T10 (excluding XC60 D5244T5 with manual transmission, S80 5 cyl diesel engines with manual transmission and S80/V70/XC70 with 6 cyl petrol engines in East Europe, Korea and China). See attached list.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other Category of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

Other injuries alerts in 2009

120 of the 144 motor vehicle alerts published in 2009 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2009

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2009

More Volvo alerts

122 EU Safety Gate alerts for Volvo since 2006; the most were issued in 2010 (14).

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