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Volvo rewrote the remedy on recall 26V103, 26 August 2026

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Owners of this vehicle were written to on 19 May 2026. The remedy was reworded on 26 August 2026, 99 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Both versions are shown on this page. Back to the campaign.

CarsMultiverse/What changed

This is an independent copy of the official notice, kept so you can see what changed. CarsMultiverse is not a safety authority: to act on this recall, use the authority’s own version at NHTSA, or the official register for your country (linked at the foot of this page).


Between 26 August 2026, 05:55 UTC and 26 August 2026, 12:41 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V103, filed by Volvo, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.

What changed

9 words were removed and 3 were added.

Removed from the earlier version

Owners are advised to limit their charge to a maximum of 70% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the battery modules as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 23, 2026. This recall replaces and expands previous NHTSA recall number 26V001.

Added in the version now published

Owners are advised to limit their charge to a maximum of 70% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the battery modules as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed August 20, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 23, 2026. This recall replaces and expands previous NHTSA recall number 26V001.

Both versions in full

As we read it on 26 August 2026

Owners are advised to limit their charge to a maximum of 70% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the battery modules as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 23, 2026. This recall replaces and expands previous NHTSA recall number 26V001.

As we read it on 26 August 2026

Owners are advised to limit their charge to a maximum of 70% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the battery modules as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed August 20, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 23, 2026. This recall replaces and expands previous NHTSA recall number 26V001.

Sealed

The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.

The wording we publish for 26V103 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.

Fingerprint of this notice
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Position in that day’s seal
1,041 of 1,485
Seal published that day
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This notice still matches the seal published on that date.

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Cite this version

CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Volvo rewrote the remedy on recall 26V103, 26 August 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v103-remedy-2026-08-26/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 4879d851bc0c4716fbe6def7afc5e181c589832d9fc0565449159d6a4ec9588c. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.

If this is your car

The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.

A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.

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How we know

We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy with a SHA-256 of the text. This page exists because the hash we recorded on 26 August 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 26 August 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.

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