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Volvo C40, Volvo S60, Volvo V60, Volvo V60cc, Volvo V90cc, Volvo Xc40, model year 2023. Filed by Volvo Car USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 19 January 2023. 27,457 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2023 S60, V60, V60CC, V90CC, XC60, XC90, XC40, and C40 vehicles. A diagnostic error in the Brake Control Module 2 (BCM2) may cause a loss of Antilock Brake System (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), and traction control.

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.

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Volvo's own number for this recall: R10217. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V012 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 23V012 cover?
Volvo C40, Volvo S60, Volvo V60, Volvo V60Cc, Volvo V90Cc, Volvo XC40, Volvo XC60, Volvo XC90, model year 2023.
What is wrong with them?
Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2023 S60, V60, V60CC, V90CC, XC60, XC90, XC40, and C40 vehicles. A diagnostic error in the Brake Control Module 2 (BCM2) may cause a loss of Antilock Brake System (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), and traction control.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A reduction in brake support functions can increase the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Volvo will release an over-the-air (OTA) BCM2 software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 15, 2023. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10217.
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 R10217, 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: “A reduction in brake support functions can increase the risk of a crash.”

27,457vehicles potentially
affected
8models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 19 January 2023owners told 27 February 2023today
The defect reached the regulator on 19 January 2023. Owners were written to 39 days later, on 27 February 2023. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign23V012
Filed byVolvo Car USA, LLC
System at faultService Brakes, Hydraulic
Reported to NHTSA19 January 2023
Model years2023-2023
Vehicles namedVOLVO C40, VOLVO S60, VOLVO V60, VOLVO V60CC, VOLVO V90CC, VOLVO XC40, VOLVO XC60, VOLVO XC90

This is not an ordinary campaign.

  • The remedy is delivered over the air. There may be no garage visit, no invoice and no paper trail the owner ever sees, which is also why a later revision to the wording can pass unnoticed.

What the notice says today

The consequence

A reduction in brake support functions can increase the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Volvo will release an over-the-air (OTA) BCM2 software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 15, 2023. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10217.

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 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The same recall in other countries

This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.

  • Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023010, recorded 19 January 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
  • European Union: Safety Gate alert A12/00184/23, published 3 February 2023, raised by Belgium (the Commission’s own page) (15 days after the American filing)

Matched on R10217, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.

How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 23V012, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v012/

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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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 23V012 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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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