Volvo V50 by model year

60 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Volvo V50 across 8 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

Complaints by model year

Older model years have had longer to collect complaints, so a taller bar on an older year is not necessarily a worse year. The best and worst years page corrects for this.

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Model year	Complaints
2005	26
2006	18
2007	8
2009	3
2010	3
2011	2

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	Recalls	MPG
2011	2		1	24
2010	3		3	22 to 24
2009	3		3	20 to 24
2008			3	20 to 23
2007	8		2	20 to 23
2006	18		3	20 to 23
2005	26	Engine (27%)	3	20 to 22
2004			2