2024 Volvo XC90

Typical pattern

36.2% of complaints about the 2024 Volvo XC90 came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2024 vehicle — around the middle of the 178 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 1.8 yr in service. The most-reported system is electrical system (16 complaints), typically at 1.8 yr or about 32,000 miles.

Complaints: 58
Median age at failure: 1.8 yr
Median mileage: 32,000 n=5
Crash / fire / tow: 13.8% of reports
Safety recalls: 3

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

25V908000 2025-12-23

Back over prevention:software

Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2021-2025 XC40, 2022 V90, 2022-2024 C40BEV, 2022-2025 S90, V90CC, XC60, 2023-2025 S60, V60, V60CC, XC90, and 2025 EC40, and EX40 vehicles. The rearview camera image may not display when the vehicle is placed in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."

A rearview camera image that does not display reduces the driver's view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.

25V282000 2025-05-08

Back over prevention:software

Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2021-2025 XC40, 2022 V90, 2022-2025 S90, V90CC, C40, XC60, 2023-2025 S60, V60, V60CC, XC90, and 2025 EC40 and EX40 vehicles. The rearview camera image may not display when the vehicle is placed in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."

A rearview camera image that does not display reduces the driver's view of what is behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.

23V827000 2023-12-07

Seat belts:critical fasteners

Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2015-2024 XC90 vehicles. The second-row seat belt buckle and lower belt anchor bolts may not be tightened properly.

An improperly tightened seat belt buckle may not restrain an occupant as intended, increasing their risk of injury during a crash.

In owners’ own words

Electrical system mileage not reported 7 mo in service

Installation of GeoTab Telematics devices on entire fleet of 2024 Volvos (regardless of model) resulted in sporadic, unplanned and random acceleration, engine revving, transmission shifting, switching from electric (hybrid mode) to gas mode. Vehicle lurches and surges.

Electrical system mileage not reported 1.8 yr in service

The trunk fails to open via kick correctly and then has closed in the midst of using the trunk space. It has not performed the âkick to closeâ function since purchasing the vehicle. We have two young children and this has brought a scare a few times. We love our Volvos but this has been our only concern.

Other XC90 model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

2024 Volvo XC90

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

In owners’ own words

Other XC90 model years

How to read this