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Volvo S80, S60, Xc70, Xc60. Published by Transport Canada as 2012082 on 28 February 2012. System: Airbag.

What the notice says On certain vehicles, the wire harness under the driver and/or passenger seat may not have been properly affixed to the seat frame during vehicle assembly. As such, the harness may get caught by the amplifier (mounted under the seat) when seating position is adjusted. If this occurs, the harness connector may detach …

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.

Volvo S80 in the other registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Volvo S80 is named on 11 American notices, 36 British, 13 European, 14 Japanese and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.

Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.

What Transport Canada published

Recall number
2012082
Recall date
28 February 2012
Make
Volvo
Models
S80, S60, XC70, XC60
Model years
2012
Vehicle class
Car
System
Airbag
Raised as
Safety MFR
Vehicles affected
3,424
Register
Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database

On certain vehicles, the wire harness under the driver and/or passenger seat may not have been properly affixed to the seat frame during vehicle assembly. As such, the harness may get caught by the amplifier (mounted under the seat) when seating position is adjusted. If this occurs, the harness connector may detach from the socket and, as a result, the corresponding airbag may not function as intended, causing the instrument panel SRS warning lamp to illuminate. Failure of a frontal airbag to deploy during a crash (where deployment is warranted) could increase the risk of personal injury to the seat occupant. Correction: Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, secure the wire harness to the driver and/or passenger seat frame.

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 2012082.

The Canadian register on this site

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.

The same system: Airbag

734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

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 notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Volvo XC70, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.

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 444 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2012.

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