Volvo Bus 9700, model year 2023. Filed by Volvo Bus Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 15 November 2022. 14 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volvo Bus Corporation (Volvo Bus) is recalling certain 2023 Volvo 9700 vehicles. The emergency light sensors may have been installed incorrectly, causing the emergency lights to fail to activate after a rollover event.
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: SR22-86. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V841 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 22V841 cover?
- Volvo Bus 9700, model year 2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volvo Bus Corporation (Volvo Bus) is recalling certain 2023 Volvo 9700 vehicles. The emergency light sensors may have been installed incorrectly, causing the emergency lights to fail to activate after a rollover event.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Emergency lights that fail to activate can increase passenger evacuation time, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Prevost will inspect and reinstall the emergency light sensors, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 30, 2022. Owners may contact Volvo Bus' customer service at 1-866-870-2046.
- 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 SR22-86, 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: “Emergency lights that fail to activate can increase passenger evacuation time, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V841 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volvo Bus Corporation |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 November 2022 |
| Model years | 2023-2023 |
| Vehicles named | VOLVO BUS 9700 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Emergency lights that fail to activate can increase passenger evacuation time, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Prevost will inspect and reinstall the emergency light sensors, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 30, 2022. Owners may contact Volvo Bus' customer service at 1-866-870-2046.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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 22V841 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e7b42f33 - Consequence
dd662f62 - 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.
The wording we hold for 22V841 · how the whole register is watched
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