AutoUtility currently tracks 15 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2017 Volvo S60. Body & Structure issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 4 complaints (26.7% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 1 reports one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 15 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Body & Structure (4 reports • 26.7% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Wheels & Tires (2), Visibility, Wipers & Glass (1)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 1 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
15
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
1
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2017 Volvo S60

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 26.7% of complaints

Body & Structure

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
⚠️ 1 crash report
#2 Problem Area 13.3% of complaints

Wheels & Tires

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 6.7% of complaints

Visibility, Wipers & Glass

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
🩹 1 injury report entry
#4 Problem Area 6.7% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 3 official safety recall campaigns for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 6.7% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2017 Volvo S60

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Body & Structure NHTSA ODI ID: #11690847
Filed: 10/01/2025

"The contact's son owns a 2017 Volvo S60. The contact’s son stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the driver’s side door unexpectedly opened. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed that the driver’s side door latch had failed and needed to be replaced...."

Incident Date: 10/01/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11681059
Filed: 08/16/2025

"Front driver door latch malfunctioning. There was a recall on these, but does not include my vin number."

Incident Date: 08/16/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11608030
Filed: 08/12/2024

"Yesterday I took my one year old granddaughter to North Carolina, which is an hour and a half drive away. We had breakfast with family members and I loaded her into the back seat. When I closed the door it looked as if the door closed, but as I began to drive, the door swung open. I attempted to..."

Incident Date: 08/11/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Body & Structure NHTSA ODI ID: #11588561
Filed: 05/13/2024

"Multiple doors unexpectedly open. Door latches do not lock."

Incident Date: 05/13/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: STRUCTURE,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11565850
Filed: 01/16/2024

"4 new Bridgestone WEATHERPEAK BL 235/45R18 tires were purchased for "mom’s" low mileage vehicle. 8 months / 3,850 miles later, while my daughter was driving it in the center lane of the highway, the front left tire suddenly exploded! Fortunately, there were no injuries but had there been another..."

Incident Date: 11/28/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Volvo S60

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2025)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Volvo S60 57 3 2 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Volvo S60 26 1 4 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Volvo S60 Current Page 15 1 5 Current
2018 Volvo S60 4 0 1 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Volvo S60 23 0 4 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Volvo S60 8 1 4 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Volvo S60 8 0 3 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Volvo S60 15 0 4 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Volvo S60 3 0 6 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Volvo S60 18 3 3 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Volvo S60 0 0 2 View 2025 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2017 Volvo S60

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 10 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 5 0 0 0 0
Structure & Body NHTSA category: STRUCTURE 2 1 0 0 0
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Doors, Latches & Locks NHTSA category: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES 1 0 0 0 0
Seat Belts NHTSA category: SEAT BELTS 1 0 0 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
STRUCTURE,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES 1 0 0 0 0
Tires NHTSA category: TIRES 1 0 0 0 0
Visibility / Glass NHTSA category: VISIBILITY 1 0 0 1 0
Wheels & Hubs NHTSA category: WHEELS 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (15). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.