Volvo Trucks North America is recalling 63,095 trucks in the U.S. and Canada because the windshield wiper motor can wear out prematurely, limiting visibility in rainy conditions.
No accidents or injuries are linked to the issue, Volvo told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). A driver may notice the wipers slowing or stopping intermittently before the wiper motor gear fails. The risk of a crash increases if the wipers fail.
Volvo decided to conduct a safety recall because warranty claims reached 5.8%. It had 51 reports of service requests due to inoperative wipers. About 6% of the recalled trucks — 2022-2024 VNR, VNL, VHD and VAH models — are expected to exhibit the issue.
Trucks in the recall population were built from May 3, 2021, through July 5, 2023. Of the recalled trucks, 55,012 are in the U.S. and 8,083 are in Canada.
Increasing trend noticed in October 2021
The truck maker first became aware of the issue in October 2021 when its engineers spotted an increasing trend of wiper motor failures.
After reviewing its supply chain, Volvo found motors were manufactured with gears and lubricant from nonverified suppliers. Unvalidated components including motor housing, gears and/or grease create incompatibility of components, which results in wiper motor failure.
Volvo will replace the wiper motor assembly with units produced with verified components. Dealer notification began Friday. Owner notification will begin on or before Sept. 15. The NHTSA recall number is 23V-511.
NHTSA in January fined Volvo Group North America a record of up to $130 million in civil penalties for slow reporting of safety recalls, sloppy record keeping and insufficient employee training in handling product defects.
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The best truck to control down hill and up hill or any bad situation happen is Volvo Semi trucks. They are not heavily trucks to control
CARLOS 🇺🇸
⚠️ This has been a defect in the new generation trucks since they first began. We have went through numerous of these piece of crap design wiper motors before Volvo has finally stepped up probably under the threat of class action lawsuit to fix this garbage 🚨🚨
Wilmar kapeen
Are they going to reimburse for the 20 trucks that we changed windshield wiper motors for in the last year?
Volvo is going downhill fast with their Quantity over Quality ideology.
I really hope this comment does not get deleted.
Def systems burn within 100k miles.
Def Sensors need to be changed yearly.
Windshield Motors keep going out.
Connection to speedometer does not work, when steering wheel is in certain position nothing works on dashboard, Advised VOLVO about this at 16k miles brand new and was advised warranty would not cover it.
Mack Bumpers crack due to design, They refused to swap out of bumpers, After hundreds of people complained they finally started sending the bumpers to get metal brackets put in.
Very poor quality all around. Makes me wonder if we will be reimbursed for the huge amount of wiper motors we have changed because of them burning out.