1997 Volvo 850 electrical system problems
16 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 1997 Volvo 850, which is 11% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 16 11% of this year's complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 1 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
What the data shows
These complaints mention 1 crash, 1 fire.
What owners wrote
Previously reported driver's seat fire in odi #758194 - I simply want to cross-reference odi #'s 734813 and 560677 which have the same fact pattern. Why hasn't anything been done about this defect? My baby could have died from the smoke inhalation, let alone the fire if we had not been able to immediately remove her from the vehicle. I would like to strongly suggest that this defect be investigated and remedied as soon as possible since the potential damage is severe - I.e., death or serious injury.
1. Loss of acceleration and sometimes stalling during freeway transition from on ramp to freeway and or during left turning against traffic. 2. The car failed to accelerate and the action of pushing the accelerator caused the transmission to down shift causing the extreme slowing and sometimes stalling. The consequences were that traffic was going considerably faster and had to take evasive action to avoid hitting the slowing car. 3.
Other problems reported for the 1997 Volvo 850
- Brakes 34 complaints
Electrical system problems in other years
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