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?
2004 Volvo XC70: broken coil spring
13 of the 101 complaints about the 2004 Volvo XC70 describe broken coil spring.
- owner complaints
- 13
- of this car's complaints
- 13%
- typical mileage
- 89,000
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Broken coil spring by model year
- 20111
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- 200413
- 20033
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What owners say
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 the federal safety agency to investigate weather this is a common flaw in the 2004 volvo xc70 and other volvo's with this coil spring.
While driving on smooth surface- heard a sudden loud sound as if something large dropped on the road. Car continued to drive normally except with a loud clunky sounds heard over bumps. Less than 5-miles later, when I pulled over to the garage- I recovered a piece of the spring coil which dropped: the driver side coil spring had broken/failed instantaneously. This uncommon problem appears to be common with xc70 owners- and could result in potentially serious accidents.
24 june 2011, got in to my 2004 volvo xc70, appx 90000 miles on german roads, to drive off to work in the morning. Heard loud screeching noise near the right wheel well when I placed the car on drive to move forward. Next thing you know, I have a severe air leak in the front right tire. Just a day prior, the car was driven through the day without any symptoms of problem and parked in the drive way with no issues. When I pulled the tire off, I found the spring snapped in two pieces with sharp ends. Good thing this did not happened on the autobahn. We could have had another american soldier or family on the front page of german and american newspapers and digital media.
Left front coil spring crack and failure, lost control of vehicle.
Broken front coil spring on drivers side. Occurred while driving, which popped tire, and required stabilizer link to be replaced.
2004 volvo xc70 wagon, 89,000 miles. Front left coil spring broke while car parked in driveway (fine previous evening, obvious clunking sound when turning out of driveway in morning). Loud noise when turning steering wheel, car not drivable. Mechanic found spring badly corroded, fractured near bottom of coils. Volvo dealership's parts department informed mechanic they were "stocking plenty of springs." this vehicle had a similar break in the left rear spring 8 weeks previously. Car is used as commuter vehicle and has never been off-road (4 whl drive sold as "cross country") or used in commercial service or for carrying heavy loads.
I had a coil spring break on the front of my 2004 volvo xc70. I had it replaced 3 weeks ago. Tonight, another coil spring in the rear passenger snapped (really loud!!! I can't imagine flying metal is safe). I'm just glad neither incident happened while we were driving. That makes 2 coil springs in less than a month.
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.
Tl*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 *bfe sure it was able to be driven. The failure mileage was 97,791. Updated 02/24/09.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2004 Volvo XC70 coil spring
Is broken coil spring a common problem on the 2004 Volvo XC70?
13 of 101 owner complaints about the 2004 Volvo XC70 (13%) mention broken coil spring. The model year with the most reports is 2004.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2004 Volvo XC70?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 2004 Volvo XC70
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