AutoUtility currently tracks 13 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2016 Volvo V60. Engine & Cooling issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 5 complaints (38.5% of submitted records). Zero crashes, fires, injury reports, or fatality reports are cited across these complaint records.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 13 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Engine & Cooling (5 reports • 38.5% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Electrical System (3), Visibility, Wipers & Glass (2)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 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
13
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
0
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2016 Volvo V60

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

#1 Problem Area 38.5% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

5 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#2 Problem Area 23.1% of complaints

Electrical System

3 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.
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 15.4% of complaints

Visibility, Wipers & Glass

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 15.4% of complaints

Body & Structure

2 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.
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 7.7% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

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 2016 Volvo V60

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

Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11624697
Filed: 11/12/2024

"The contact owns a 2016 Volvo V60. The contact stated that after changing the engine oil, one week later the message "Engine Oil Low" was displayed. The contact later discovered the engine oil was low and the vehicle had experienced excessive oil consumption. The cause of the failure was not yet..."

Incident Date: 11/01/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11589497
Filed: 05/19/2024

"Volvo dealer confirmed Excessive oil burn due to bad piston rings. Volvo USA recalled other cars with the same problem but refused to recall mine. They offered instead partial payment for the fix. Should be full payment to repair."

Incident Date: 04/01/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11562906
Filed: 01/01/2024

"Interior (center) rear view mirror glass migrates over time to point downward, so you see the backseat rather than out the back window. Have to manually adjust it to point back up approximately every 500 miles. Suspect it happens as you drive over bumps. Have had two dealerships look at it (Gorges..."

Incident Date: 04/07/2017 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11192008
Filed: 03/27/2019

"INFOTAINMENT SCREEN REBOOTS CONTINUOUSLY AND NEVER COMPLETES LOADING, MAKING MANY CONTROL FUNCTIONS OF THE VEHICLE COMPLETELY INACCESSIBLE. THIS OCCURS DURING ANY TIME WHEN THE CAR IS RUNNING, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS STATIONARY OR MOVING."

Incident Date: 03/14/2019 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Brakes & Traction Control NHTSA ODI ID: #11120667
Filed: 08/17/2018

"TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 VOLVO V60. WHILE DRIVING AT ANY SPEED, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO ACCELERATE WITHOUT WARNING. WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED, THE LOW BATTERY INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO STATED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BATTERY. THE..."

Incident Date: 02/14/2018 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN,SERVICE BRAKES
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 V60

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Volvo V60 21 2 2 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Volvo V60 Current Page 13 0 4 Current
2017 Volvo V60 6 0 6 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Volvo V60 1 0 2 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Volvo V60 1 0 3 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Volvo V60 6 0 3 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Volvo V60 3 0 3 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Volvo V60 0 0 3 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Volvo V60 3 1 4 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Volvo V60 6 0 2 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Volvo V60 0 0 2 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Volvo V60 0 0 0 View 2026 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 2016 Volvo V60

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 11 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 3 0 0 0 0
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,SEAT BELTS 1 0 0 0 0
Engine & Cooling NHTSA category: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 1 0 0 0 0
POWER TRAIN,SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
Structure & Body NHTSA category: STRUCTURE 1 0 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
VISIBILITY,STRUCTURE 1 0 0 0 0
Visibility & Wipers NHTSA category: VISIBILITY/WIPER 1 0 0 0 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 (13). 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.