Total Complaints
3 filings
Volvo Volvo · model year
3 NHTSA complaints, 1 crash report. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The verdict
The 1994 Volvo Volvo posts below-average complaint volume among its own model-year siblings.
The 1994VolvoVolvo carries 3 consumer safety complaints in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 1 crash, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1994 Volvo is air bags with 1 filings, followed by fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly (1) and structure:frame and members (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 23 investigation files overlapping the 1994 Volvo. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
3 filings
Crashes Reported
1 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| AIR BAGS | 1 |
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY | 1 |
| STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS | 1 |
HAVE 4 TRACTORS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM HAVE CONTACTED DEALER AND VOLVO. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ANY HELP. TRUCKS ARE OUT OF WARRANTY, THEY SAY CABS ARE FALLING APART BECAUSE SHOCKS ARE WORN. THE TRUCKS HAVE BEEN REPAIRED BEFORE WE PURCHASED FROM DEALER. HAD TO HAVE BEEN UNDER WARRANTY, BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS.
THE GAS GAUGE WILL NOT REGISTER IN CAR AFTER THE ENGINE IS HOT.
FALSE DEPLOYMENT OF AIR BAG. *SD
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1994 Volvo Volvo; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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