2001 VOLVO S80 — Complaint #545023
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:BANJO HOUSING filed July 20, 2005
NHTSA complaint #545023 (ODI reference 10129439) concerns a 2001 VOLVO S80 and was filed on July 20, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 15, 2005. The vehicle had 53,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly:banjo housing, 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 S80 cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly:banjo housing 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 2001 VOLVO S80 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DT: THE VEHICLE IS A 2001 VOLVO S80. THE CONSUMER'S DAUGHTER WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE IN TRAFFIC WHEN IT STALLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREEWAY. SHE WAS ABLE TO GET THE VEHICLE TO RESTART BUT WHEN SHE PUT THE VEHICLE INTO DRIVE IT WENT BACKWARDS. WHEN THE CONSUMER GOT THERE HE TRIED TO GET IT TO GO FORWARD AND IT WENT BACKWARDS. THEY CALLED FOR A TOW TRUCK TO TAKE IT TO THE DEALER. WHEN THE CONSUMER TOOK IT TO THE DEALER THEY TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS THE THROTTLE BODY- ETM THAT FAILED. THIS WAS BECAUSE THE BANJO FITTING HAD CARBON BUILD UP. THE THROTTLE BODY IS COVERED BY WARRANTY. AND THE CLEANING OF THE BANJO FITTING IS NOT. THE CONSUMER FEELS THAT IT SHOULD BE PART OF THE MANUFACTURES PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE. WHEN HE CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURE THEY TOLD HIM THAT HE COULD NOT SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE THERE THAT DECIDE WHAT IS COVERED AS NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR. THE VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN REPAIRED AS OF YET, ALTHOUGH HE DOES INTEND TO HAVE IT REPAIRED. *NM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 545023 |
| ODI Number | 10129439 |
| Date Filed | July 20, 2005 |
| Failure Date | July 15, 2005 |
| VIN | YV1TS94D111 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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