Front Suspension Coil Spring problems of the 2004 Volvo XC70

Both front coil springs broke while going straight at low speed. Vehicle is not used off road. Repair required strut replacement. Dealer said this is a very common problem for Volvo. This is a major safety hazard. Why is there no recall?.

While my car was parked inside my garage there was a sudden "bang". The following morning I discovered while backing out of garage that the driver side coil spring had broken. Had I been driving while this happened it would have resulted in the shredding of the front driver side tire possibly resulting in a severe accident. The reason I own Volvo is principally dye to it's reputation for safety. In fact, Volvo uses the term safety in all it's advertising. This is a grave flaw and I ask NHTSA to investigate weather this is a common flaw in the 2004 Volvo Xc70 and other Volvo's with this coil spring.

2004 Volvo Xc70: I was pulling out of my garage and immediately heard a grinding sound. I then heard a whooshing sound. The front passenger side spring coil cracked and punctured (and ruined) a four week old tire. There was no warning that this was going to happen. I was lucky that I wasn't on the highway because I would have had a sudden tire blowout. Subaru had this problem with spring coils and had a recall to install shield to protect tire.

Left front coil spring crack and failure, lost control of vehicle.

Driving ~30mph straight on snow covered road. Front left coil spring failed.

We had just driven about 200 miles on the highway and pulled into our hotel parking lot. The car was in perfectly fine working order with no indication of a problem. When we returned to the car to go out, it made a scraping clunking, sound from the front driver's side wheel when we moved or turned the wheel. We managed to get it to a nearby repair shop where it was determined that the front driver's side coil spring had snapped while it was parked in the hotel parking lot. The coil was replaced.

Catastrophic failure of front passenger coil spring.

The contact owns a 2004 Volvo Xc70. The contact heard a loud banging on the front driver's side of the vehicle while driving in reverse. The front driver's side suspension coil spring failed. The vehicle was driven to the repair shop and they removed the front struts. They reassembled the front strut assembly with new, original Volvo manufactured front struts, mounts, bushings, and springs. The dealer reinstalled the front strut assembly and then test drove the vehicle to makupdated 02-23-09 sure it was able to be driven. The failure mileage was 97,791. Updated 02/24/09.

Broken front coil springs on both the driver and passenger sides. Occurred in two separate incidents and both incidents occurred while pulling straight out of the garage. The broken coil spring on the passenger side (1st incident) punctured the front tire. The 2nd incident occurred aprrox 3 month later, where the driver side coil spring broke. This was identify immediately and no damage to the tire occurred. The coil spring was replaced in both cases.