Volvo S60, S80

The risk

The propellant used in the airbag inflator may experience a material alteration over time due to degradation occurring after prolonged exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures and high-temperature cycling. In the event of an airbag being deployed, it may underinflate or the excessive internal pressure may cause the inflator body to rupture and metal fragments may pass through the cushion material causing injury to the occupants.

Product: Passenger cars Volvo S60 and S80, model year 2001 - 2003, equipped with driver airbags containing FG2 Twin inflators with 5AT 148N propellant.

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

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Distributor Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 04/11/2020

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Volvo S60
• Volvo S80

Other injuries alerts in 2020

387 of the 482 motor vehicle alerts published in 2020 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2020

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2020

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Volvo S60

More Volvo alerts

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

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