Volvo C30, Volvo C70, Volvo S40, Volvo S60, Volvo S80, Volvo V50, model years 2000 to 2010. Filed by Volvo Cars Of N.a. Llc. and reported to NHTSA on 8 November 2010. 416 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volvo is recalling certain vehicles equipped with garmin 760 portable global positioning system (gps) units because the batteries on those units may overheat.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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's own number for this recall: R231. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 10V566 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 10V566 cover?
- Volvo C30, Volvo C70, Volvo S40, Volvo S60, Volvo S80, Volvo V50, Volvo V70, Volvo XC70, model years 2000-2010.
- What is wrong with them?
- VOLVO IS RECALLING CERTAIN VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH GARMIN 760 PORTABLE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) UNITS BECAUSE THE BATTERIES ON THOSE UNITS MAY OVERHEAT.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- AN OVERHEATED BATTERY COULD LEAD TO A FIRE.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. VOLVO ADVISES OWNERS TO PLEASE STOP USING THE GARMIN PORTABLE GPS DEVICE IMMEDIATELY, AND VISIT THE GARMIN WEBSITE TO DETERMINE IF THEIR UNIT IS AFFECTED. THE UNIT'S BATTERY WILL BE REPLACED WITH A NEW BATTERY AND A SPACER WILL BE INSERTED ON TOP OF THE BATTERY NEXT TO THE PCB.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Volvo calls this recall R231, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “AN OVERHEATED BATTERY COULD LEAD TO A FIRE.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 10V566 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | VOLVO CARS OF N.A. LLC. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Electrical:Navigational System(Global Positioning System) |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 November 2010 |
| Model years | 2000-2010 |
| Vehicles named | VOLVO C30, VOLVO C70, VOLVO S40, VOLVO S60, VOLVO S80, VOLVO V50, VOLVO V70, VOLVO XC70, VOLVO XC90 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
AN OVERHEATED BATTERY COULD LEAD TO A FIRE.
The remedy
VOLVO ADVISES OWNERS TO PLEASE STOP USING THE GARMIN PORTABLE GPS DEVICE IMMEDIATELY, AND VISIT THE GARMIN WEBSITE TO DETERMINE IF THEIR UNIT IS AFFECTED. THE UNIT'S BATTERY WILL BE REPLACED WITH A NEW BATTERY AND A SPACER WILL BE INSERTED ON TOP OF THE BATTERY NEXT TO THE PCB. THIS SERVICE WILL BE PERFORMED FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON NOVEMBER 18, 2010. OWNERS MAY CONTACT GARMIN AT 866-957-1981 OR VISIT GARMIN'S WEBSITE AT WWW.GARMIN.COM/NUVIBATTERYPCBRECALL.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Volvo S40 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Volvo S60 recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Volvo S80 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Volvo V50 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Volvo V70 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Volvo XC70 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Volvo XC90 recalls: 23 US campaigns since 2016
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 10V566, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/10v566/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 10V566 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1afde02b - Consequence
d8b27ea6 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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