Vehicle Speed Control Problems of Volvo XC60

Volvo XC60 owners have reported 29 vehicle speed control related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 5 most common vehicle speed control problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's vehicle speed control (23 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's car accelerates on its own (3 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.

Table 1. Vehicle Speed Control related problems of Volvo XC60


Recently reported Vehicle Speed Control problems of Volvo XC60

The Vehicle Speed Control problem

While parking our Volvo in the parking lot of trader joe's grocery store on [xxx], the Volvo suddenly accelerated and collided with the adjacent car in the next parking slip and rammed the car in the forward parking slip pushing about 15 to 20 feet ahead.   Read details...

The Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

I am complaining about unintended acceleration recently experienced while parking my car in a parking lot and the manufacturing cannot tell me if and when any recalls were updated on my car prior to purchase.   Read details...

The Accelerator Stuck problem

Was driving on highway. I let go of the gas pedal but the car still uncontrollably accelerates! gas pedal is stuck. Hitting the breaks slows the car a bit. This went on for about 10 seconds and finally and luckily the "r-design" gas pedal cover fell off and I was able to stop   Read details...

The Cruise Control problem

The contact owns a 2010 Volvo Xc60. While driving at approximately 35 mph with the adaptive cruise control activated, the vehicle abnormally accelerated until the brakes were applied. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the failure could not be duplicated.   Read details...

The Accelerator Pedal problem

The contact owns a 2025 Volvo Xc60. The contact stated that while his wife was pulling into a parking space slowly, the vehicle independently accelerated, causing the vehicle to sideswipe a vehicle nearby on the driver’s side of the vehicle and then rear-end another vehicle before coming to a   Read details...




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