Owners have filed 60 complaints on the Volvo EX90, covering 2025–2025. The system named most often is Electrical System (25 reports). Worst years by volume: 2025; cleanest: 2025. 1 reports describe a crash. On average the car was 0.4 years old when the problem happened.
What breaks on Volvo EX90
Grouped by the system owners named — percentages are shares of all 60 EX90 complaints. Open any row for the full reports in owners' own words.
Electrical System 25 Read
On November 28, 2025, my 2025 Volvo EX90 displayed a headlight warning message on the dashboard and the headlights failed to function properly while parked and after starting the engine. The defect temporarily resolved but recurred on December 5, 2025. A headlight defect that is not immediately apparent to the driver…
AC charging failed
The onboard charger (ghca) failed, destroying my evse and tripping the circut breaker in my electrical panel. It took 3.5 weeks for the replacement part to come in and be installed. On another occasion, the pilot assist adas presented an error and was unavailable until the computer was rebooted
Power Train 8 Read
The contact owns a 2025 Volvo EX90. The contact stated that while exiting a parking lot, the contact selected drive(D); however, the vehicle reversed instead and crashed into a pole. There was no warning light illuminated prior to the failure. The contact stated that when the vehicle was being towed, the tow truck…
Car accelerates and lurches forward on its own sometimes
On [XXX] I purchased a brand new 2025 Volvo EX90 from Volvo Cars of North Miami. I’ve been having a number of software glitches since then, but the last incident put my life in direct danger. Yesterday, [XXX] I was driving [XXX] on [XXX] (a four-lane motorway) in Aventura with around 55MPH speed and 76% battery…
Fuel/propulsion System 3 Read
The GHCA failed while AC charging at home, and the vehicle made loud banging noises. AC charging is no longer possible, and a replacement part is still backordered with no ETA over three months later. A corporate case has been filed with Volvo and they are effectively unresponsive, only emailing me once a few weeks…
The car triggered a "charging fault" while charging on a trip and will no longer charge on a level-2/AC charger. I was lucky to have enough charge to make it to a DC Fast charger and continue my trip. If I had not been so close to an alternative DC Fast charger this could have left me stranded
Vehicle will no longer charge with 120 or 240 volt chargers
Vehicle Speed Control 3 Read
DESCRIPTION OF DEFECT: I am reporting a recurring incident of unintended acceleration in my Volvo EX90. On multiple occasions, immediately upon shifting the vehicle into Drive — before I touched the accelerator pedal — the vehicle accelerated forward on its own without any input from me. This has happened more than…
I experienced a serious safety issue with my 2025 Volvo EX90 around 1:15 PM on October 7, 2025. It was drizzling at the time. I had stopped in front of an ATM to deposit and withdraw money. After finishing, when I released the brake pedal to leave, the vehicle suddenly accelerated forward on its own, much faster than…
The vehicle supports a feature to reset the display computer by holding the play/pause button for approximately 45 seconds. When executed the center console display as well as the speedometer display over the steering wheel reset and go blank for up to 1 minute. The safety issue is that this function can be performed…
Lane Departure 2 Read
Multiple times I have gotten a "Park assistance fault - book a service" message while driving and the parking sensors stop working. The issue temporarily resolves itself only to reoccurring several days later. Took to service and they replaced the car computer and said they could to replicate the issue after replacing…
At 164 miles on the odometer, I had the following issues: a. Received a message that the active high beam was not available and that it would be necessary to run the wipers to clean the front camera. I ran the wipers with washer fluid to clear the camera as instructed, but it did not clear the error message during the…
Service Brakes 2 Read
The One Pedal Drive function (regenerative braking) intermittently deactivates without warning after startup. This issue has occurred multiple times under normal driving conditions. When the accelerator is released, expected deceleration does not occur, resulting in reduced braking response. No warning indicates that…
On [XXX] around [XXX], while driving on [XXX] fro Santa Paula to Ojai, my car displayed a message on the dash that said "critical brake fault, pull over safely." When I applied the brakes they did not respond. I came to a stop only when the car lost momentum. When I exited the car to investigate, I shut the driver's…
Seat Belts 2 Read
The vehicle has exhibited unexpected braking without any apparent external trigger, posing a safety risk. Most troubling, we have now had a third incident of the seatbelt pre-tensioning unexpectedly and forcefully, which caused my wife several days of lower abdominal discomfort. The most recent episode happened while…
On three occasions my car has initiated automatic emergency braking while I was driving across the same grated bridge deck (Montlake Bridge in Seattle). In each instance there was no potential for collision and my car slammed on brakes and jammed on my seatbelt with varying levels of discomfort and terror. This also…
Exterior Lighting 1 Read
The instrument panel displays symbol for exterior lights malfunction and the vehicle status screen reports “1 serious issue detected – Headlight fault – Book a service”. The high and low beams appear to function normally on both sides of the car. The daytime running lights (white) around the headlight are only…
EX90 years to avoid — and the clean ones
Complaints per model year. More reports usually means more cars on the road as well as more trouble, so read the crash and fire columns alongside the count.
| Model year | Complaints | Top system | Crashes | Fires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Air Bags,seat Belts | 1 | — |
The same model year, different builds
Every complaint carries the first 11 characters of the VIN — plant, year, body and engine. That is a production series, and complaints are spread across them very unevenly.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Distinct production series | 34 |
| Average complaints per series | 1.8 |
| Worst single series | 6 complaints |
| Average age at failure | 0.4 years |
A model average of 1.8 hides a worst series at 6. Enter a VIN above to see the numbers for that exact build instead of the model as a whole.
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Every figure here comes from complaints owners filed with NHTSA — 1,100,006 of them, covering 1,982 models built between 1981 and 2026.
A complaint is an unverified report: someone wrote down what happened to their car. It is not a confirmed defect and not a recall. What makes the volume useful is the pattern — when thousands of owners of the same build describe the same failure, that is a signal no marketing brochure will give you.
Two things we do that the source does not. First, we compute the age of the car at the moment of failure from the incident date and the model year. Second, we group complaints by the first 11 characters of the VIN — the production series — so a bad plant run does not disappear into a model-wide average.
Frequently asked questions
What are the worst years for the EX90?
By complaint volume, 2025 drew the most owner reports. Bear in mind that popular years put more cars on the road, so check the crash and fire columns too.
Which EX90 years are the cleanest?
2025 have the fewest complaints on file. For recent years that can simply mean the cars are young.
How many complaints does the Volvo EX90 have?
60 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, covering 2025–2025. Of those, 1 describe a crash and 0 a fire.
Are these complaints verified?
No. They are unverified reports from owners. NHTSA publishes them as filed and investigates only a fraction. The value is in the pattern, not in any single report.
Can I check complaints for one specific car?
Yes — enter its VIN above. We match the first 11 characters, which identify the plant, year, body and engine, so you get complaints on that exact production series rather than the whole model.