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Volvo VT Problems

What actually breaks on the Volvo VT — 1 owner complaints filed with NHTSA across 2006–2006, sorted by model year and by system, with what owners wrote in their own words.

NHTSA owner complaints · 1 reports · 1 builds · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Quick answer

Owners have filed 1 complaints on the Volvo VT, covering 2006–2006. The system named most often is Engine And Engine Cooling (1 reports). Worst years by volume: 2006; cleanest: 2006. On average the car was 0.0 years old when the problem happened.

What breaks on Volvo VT

Grouped by the system owners named — percentages are shares of all 1 VT complaints. Open any row for the full reports in owners' own words.

Engine And Engine Cooling 100% 1 Read
2006 Volvo VT

I bought a commercial volvo truck vt880 in february 2006 and since than I've been in services 27 times for a total of 17 weeks and for this matter I am in a very bad financial situation,the matter of fact I'm thinking to declare bankruptcy and I want to hold volvo responsible for the bad truck that they deliver to me…

VT 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.

FIG.02·Volvo VT complaints by model year
Model yearComplaintsTop systemCrashesFires
20061Engine And Engine Cooling
ROWS 1·SOURCE NHTSA owner complaints
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How we count

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 VT?

By complaint volume, 2006 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 VT years are the cleanest?

2006 have the fewest complaints on file. For recent years that can simply mean the cars are young.

How many complaints does the Volvo VT have?

1 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, covering 2006–2006. Of those, 0 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.

Owner complaints from NHTSA, published as filed and unverified. Age at failure computed by ForCar from incident date and model year; production series grouped by the first 11 VIN characters. Last updated Aug 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by , founder of ForCar.