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The risk

This product poses a risk of injuries because the brake assistance vacuum may be reduced under cold start conditions. During engine warm up in low ambient temperatures, it is possible that the non return valve within the brake vacuum pump may intermittently stick, and by that not supply vacuum to the brake booster. If the condition occurs the driver may experience a hard brake pedal, due to the reduced brake vacuum in the brake booster. The brakes are still functioning, even if the brake vacuum assistance is reduced, but the brake pedal must be pressed harder to make up for the lack of brake vacuum assistance and in certain traffic conditions this may lead to an unsafe situation.

Product: S40/V50/C30 with D4204T/T2 Engine, 2006 and 2007 –Model vehicles are affected.

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 manufacturer. Date of entry into force: Unknown

Other injuries alerts in 2007

144 of the 201 motor vehicle alerts published in 2007 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2007

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2007

More Volvo alerts

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

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