Volvo 200 Series. Published by Transport Canada as 1978062 on 24 July 1978. System: Fuel System.
What the notice says On certain Volvo 240, 242, 244, 245, 260, 262, 264 and 265, the fuel tank vent valve assembly may be defective allowing the venting system to emit fuel vapour into the atmosphere in excess of federal safety standard 1105 - Evaporative Emissions. This recall has been replaced by recalls v79048 through v79051.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1978062
- Recall date
- 24 July 1978
- Make
- Volvo
- Models
- 200 Series
- Model years
- 1976 to 1977
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Fuel System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 2,250
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain Volvo 240, 242, 244, 245, 260, 262, 264 and 265, the fuel tank vent valve assembly may be defective allowing the venting system to emit fuel vapour into the atmosphere in excess of federal safety standard 1105 - Evaporative Emissions. This recall has been replaced by recalls v79048 through v79051.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1978062.
Volvo elsewhere in this register
Volvo is named on 312 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1977186 · 13 March 1978 · 200 Series · Other
- 1977136 · 16 January 1978 · 200 Series · Engine
- 1979048 · 16 March 1979 · 200 Series · Fuel System
- 1979049 · 16 March 1979 · 200 Series · Fuel System
- 1979050 · 16 March 1979 · 200 Series · Fuel System
- 1979051 · 16 March 1979 · 200 Series · Fuel System
- 1979083 · 10 May 1979 · 200 Series · Fuel System
- 1979112 · 29 June 1979 · 100 Series, 200 Series · Fuel System
The same system: Fuel System
866 notices in this register name Fuel System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1978025 · 9 May 1978 · M5, M3, M4 · Fuel System
- 1978015 · 27 April 1978 · G Series · Fuel System
- 1978118 · 23 October 1978 · P Series · Fuel System
- 1977124 · 29 December 1977 · SL350, CL450, CB750 · Fuel System
- 1979034 · 21 February 1979 · GL, DL · Fuel System
- 1977118 · 14 December 1977 · Club Cab · Fuel System
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Volvo: 312 in the register, and 150 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1978.
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