Tl* the contact owned a 1990 volvo 740. While the vehicle was in the garage, it suddenly accelerated to approximately 60 MPH. The vehicle slammed into a brick wall. The air bags deployed. A police report was filed. The brake pedal was soft and would not respond. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact was bleeding from his head and required medical attention. The approximate failure mileage was 200,000.
Volvo 740 sudden acceleration problems
12 of the 82 owner complaints about the Volvo 740 describe sudden unintended acceleration, most of them for the 1990 model year.
- owner complaints
- 12
- worst model year
- 1990
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
By model year
- 19981
- 19922
- 19909
Often reported together
What owners say
In a parking lot at a local grocery store, my daughter and I went into the car, started it and shifted the gear, while holding the brake, from park mode to revers mode to get out of the parking lot. As soon as I shifted it, the car took off in full speed backward as if it was crazy, hitting a car and a passenger that was coming out of the car. As my car hit the 2nd vehicle's open door, it bounced forward, also in full speed. By this time, I shifted the gear to park mode in attempt to stop the car. Nevertheless, the car flew and hit a SUV and as the airbag broke, my car stopped. The SUV was then sandwiched in between my car and a parked car in front of it. Both cars were empty but the passenger from the first car was badly bruised in her side and knee. The sudden acceleration had occured and the tire marks remained from the starting location to the end because I was pushing the brake all the time, nevertheless, the car flew unintentionally. Since it is a very unusual case, nothing has been done to the car yet and I will probably total that car.
While driving at a low rate of speed and when attemtping to turn around a curve vehicle suddenly accelerated, causing unwanted and unexpected acceleration, resulting in an accident. Consumer has contacted volvo. *ak the brakes failed to stop the accelerating vehicle.
Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration after shifing into drive. This caused vehicle to take off and strike a building. No injury reported, and manufacturer was notified. Please feel free to provide any further details on this matter.
Unintentional acceleration. Driver sitting in a carpool pickup line with car turned off. Driver started car in order to move it forward about 25 feet( then the intention was to turn it off and sit and wait another 10 minutes until school got out). Driver put car in drive and went to give car some gas and the car lunged forward, engine completly reved. Tried to jam on brakes but the car engine still totally reved. Smashed into ford expedition in front of me. Air bag deployed hitting stomach only.
Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration resulting in vehicle collision.
The vehicle suddenly accelerated, causing accident.
While backing out of parking space the vehicle sudden accelerated. Vehicle hit another vehicle and the air bag did not deploy either.
Sudden acceleration when shifting from park to drive, causing accident.
Sudden acceleration while attempting right turn, causing loss of control/accident. (other vehicle on 489061).
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Volvo 740 sudden acceleration
Which Volvo 740 years have sudden unintended acceleration problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1990 (9 complaints), 1992 (2 complaints) and 1998 (1 complaints).
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