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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.

February 2002 Fire

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.

Reported at 150,000 miles, November 2006

Other problems reported for the 1997 Volvo 850

Electrical system problems in other years

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Electrical system problems across all Volvo models