Vehicle Speed Control Problems of Volvo XC90

Volvo XC90 owners have reported 43 vehicle speed control related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 3 most common vehicle speed control problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's vehicle speed control (37 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's accelerator pedal (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 XC90


Recently reported Vehicle Speed Control problems of Volvo XC90

The Vehicle Speed Control problem

Unintentional acceleration. First, I was in line at car wash proceeding slowly ahead as directed in line. Foot on accelerator lightly moving, when car surged rapidly hitting back end of Tesla about 6-8 ft ahead (2/26/26 12:30pm) impact strong enough to push Tesla into truck hitch damaging it front   Read details...

The Accelerator Pedal problem

The contact owns a 2020 Volvo Xc90. The contact stated that while his wife was driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration while the brake pedal was depressed, causing the vehicle to crash into a parked vehicle.   Read details...

The Cruise Control problem

1) adaptive cruise control suddenly shuts off while driving on the highway, error message appears on the screen: "windscreen sensor, sensor blocked, see owner's manual", the appearance of the sensor on the outside of the car appears clean and even after scrubbing the sensor area the error   Read details...




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