There is a know defect with the chassis used for several volvo car models. My car is a volvo c70, year 2012. My car is affected by this defect. The defect wasn't disclosed to me at time of sale. I only learned about it literally 10 years later when volvo of gilbert (dealership) advised me to install a costly part on the rear suspension of my car because of "excessive negative camber". According to the volvo repair department, they've known for years of an internal repair "recommendation" memo issued by volvo that volvo actually pays for on other models, but won't pay for on mine, to correct this "negative camber" on the rear of the car. ***** the negative camber causes tire walls to fail early and abnormally wear the internal edges of the tires. I've experienced early tire failure on multiple sets of tires on my volvo c70 and never knew why. Now i know. **volvo has always known. ** i have to replace all of my tires almost every two years due to the inside edges wearing out, despite faithfully rotating my tires several times a year. My tires have worn down to the belt on the inside edges despite having plenty of good tread left in the middle of the tire itself. About two years ago i had a dangerous blowout on the freeway because of a tire that failed early -- now i know it's because of the negative camber. More recently, two of my tires wore down all the way to the belts despite being less than two years old. ***** volvo knows about this issue. There is a good paper trail of the issue being documented both by volvo and their customers, but they failed to warn us of the dangerous car suspension and failed to provide the fix to all of us (while providing the fix to some of their customers). ***** please listen to this 2-minute recording with the volvo technician (judd) who disclosed the known defect to me: [xxx] ***** this needs to be rectified for all of us with the faulty chassis'. Thank you. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6)
The contact owns a 2011 volvo c70. The contact stated that while her son was driving at an unknown rate of speed on the highway, he veered off the road, hit a road sign, and crashed into a bridge wall. The contact's son was pronounced dead on the scene. A police report was filed which documented that only the passenger side air bag had deployed upon impact. The contact's son passed away as a result of hitting his head on both the driver side door and the steering wheel. The road sign was also damaged as a result of the accident. The vehicle was towed to an independent tow yard after the accident. The dealer nor the manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired and remained in the possession of the independent mechanic. The failure mileage was unknown.
This is not a singular incident; it has been persistent for five or so years at this point. Quite frequently, when i am driving with the top down for at least 20 minutes, one of the doors unlatches (a couple of weeks ago, this actually occurred six times in one hour or so trip, though such frequency is unusual). For the first year or so this occurred, it was only the driver's door, but then it started happening with both doors (though still more frequently the driver's door). To be clear, it unlatches -- it never has swung open, even if pressure is applied to it. Still, this is jarring when it occurs (all the more so at highway speeds), and i am left to wonder if at some point it will "graduate" to full door opening. I am also especially concerned given that i have a child with a driving learner's permit. I mentioned this in passing to a volvo dealer service agent a couple of years ago, and he professed to be unaware of it and suggested i would need to bring it in for diagnosis etc. Which i have not done. However, having been on the nhtsa site today and seen other complaints about this with this year, make, and model, i felt i should add my experiences to the record. And of course, given those observations, i would like to get it addressed without my having to incur the cost of doing so.
The passenger door unlatches after hitting mild bumps in the road. The door does not fully open due to the secondary safety latch but it still represents a dangerous condition especially if a person is sitting in the passenger seat.
The driver side seat belt gets stuck and is very hard almost impossible to unlatch once it is locked over driver
The contact owns a 2013 Volvo C70. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the driver's and passenger's side front doors inadvertently opened. The dealer was made aware of the failure and informed the contact that the driver's and passenger's side front doors needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 75,900.
Within the last 6 months, (fall 2021 – spring 2022), one of the doors in my car has opened multiple times by itself, while i was driving the car. The door was closed properly when i started driving and i did not accidently pull on the door handle. This occurred so far only with the driver side door, while the top was down, (the car is a convertible), and while driving at highway or close to highway speed. Last time the door opened and closed multiple times, before i had a chance to pull over and close it. I noticed the door opening and closing as the interior light came on and off and window lowered down and went up several times, which occurs while the door is being opened. This leads to a dangerous and unpredictable situation.
I noticed that driving with the top down (the car is a convertible) leads to premature and uneven tire wear. Subsequently the tires generate a lot of road noise and vibration, which is felt through the steering wheel. At 62000 miles i brought the situation to the attention of volvo service and as a result they made some repairs / changes / updates to the rear suspension, (at my cost of over $2000). At that time i also purchased four new tires. At this point the car has around 72000 miles and the issue has come back (noise / vibration). It appears that the car has a design issue, which prohibits driving it with the top open, even though that is the main purpose of the car as a convertible.
When top is down, at highway speeds, the driver-side door becomes ajar, interior light comes on and window goes down 1/2 inch. This seems to happen about 20 minutes into the drive. Will happen multiple times on long drives. This only seems to happen when the convertible top is down. Driving at highway speeds and having the door go ajar is not safe. Not sure why volvo never took this seriously, as its reported by many others on the internet - same exact issue. Reported to volvo (leiken volvo cars cleveland), they cannot reproduce and said everything looks correct. Offering to replace the lock mechanism. The issue is easy to reproduce, but just driving with the top down for longer than a 20 minute period.
Door opened on its own while driving. Three times this week. Door appears locked and warning illumination indicator does not recognize that door is open. Door cannot be locked when in this condition but it indicates that it is locked. Appears identical to issue in nhtsa campaign 19v849000.