2016 VOLVO XC90 — Complaint #1800387
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL filed March 9, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1800387 (ODI reference 11455801) concerns a 2016 VOLVO XC90 and was filed on March 9, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 4, 2022. The vehicle had 128,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:electrical, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same VOLVO XC90 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:electrical failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 VOLVO XC90 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Volvo XC90. The contact stated that upon start of her vehicle, the parking brake message and a yellow flashing brake light appeared on the instrument panel. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer where they informed her that a wire connected to the parking brake was detached and need to be replaced. The contact was given an estimate for the repair and the wire was replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and offered no assistance; the manufacturer referred her to NHTSA to file a complaint. The vehicle had been repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 128,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1800387 |
| ODI Number | 11455801 |
| Date Filed | March 9, 2022 |
| Failure Date | March 4, 2022 |
| VIN | YV4A22PLXG1 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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