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Volvo affected vehicles are equipped with a power feed relay for the engine and transmission which may be undersized for the application, causing the relay to fail and the engine to stall.

NHTSA campaign 16V-836 · Reported November 18, 2016 · 583 vehicles affected

AFFECTED MODELS
Volvo 9700
VEHICLES AFFECTED
583
REMEDY
Volvo Bus will notify owners, and dealers will replace the existing relay with a larger, more robust, relay, free of charge.
COST
Free

The short version

Volvo Bus Corporation reported a problem with the wiring fuses and circuit breakers. Here is what owners need to know.

WHAT

The affected vehicles are equipped with a power feed relay for the engine and transmission which may be undersized for the application, causing the relay to fail and the engine to stall.

WHY IT MATTERS

An unexpected engine shutdown increases the risk of a crash.

WHAT TO DO

Volvo Bus will notify owners, and dealers will replace the existing relay with a larger, more robust, relay, free of charge.

Affected vehicles

These model years are included in NHTSA campaign 16V-836.

YEAR RANGEMODEL
2008–2017Volvo 9700

What changed

Newest first. The record shows both when the recall began and what has changed since.

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA. LATEST

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What this record means

Data from the NHTSA recall database. A clean VIN check means no open federal recalls for that vehicle — not that it never had one.

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