2018 VOLVO XC90 — Complaint #2036936
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR:HANDLE:INTERIOR filed October 31, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2036936 (ODI reference 11622921) concerns a 2018 VOLVO XC90 and was filed on October 31, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 28, 2024. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:door:handle:interior, 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 structure:body:door:handle:interior 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 2018 VOLVO XC90 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Door handle for drivers side door breaks off into hand. Exiting vehicle made extremely complicated: if window is compromised in any way or lock system is compromised in any way, exit of vehicle is impossible.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2036936 |
| ODI Number | 11622921 |
| Date Filed | October 31, 2024 |
| Failure Date | October 28, 2024 |
| VIN | YV4BR0PL0J1 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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