Volvo S60l, model year 2017. Filed by Volvo Car USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 6 February 2026. 2,758 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2017 S60L vehicles. A component within the door latch may break, preventing the door from latching properly. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 206, "Door Locks and Door Retention Components."
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: R89978. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V072 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 26V072 cover?
- Volvo S60L, model year 2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2017 S60L vehicles. A component within the door latch may break, preventing the door from latching properly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A door that is not securely latched can open unexpectedly, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace all four door latches, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 11, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R89978.
- 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 R89978, 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 door that is not securely latched can open unexpectedly, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V072 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volvo Car USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Latches/Locks/Linkages |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 February 2026 |
| Model years | 2017-2017 |
| Vehicles named | VOLVO S60L |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2017 S60L vehicles. A component within the door latch may break, preventing the door from latching properly. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 206, "Door Locks and Door Retention Components."
The consequence
A door that is not securely latched can open unexpectedly, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace all four door latches, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 11, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R89978. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on January 19, 2026. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 19V849.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 4643d820838d6dff8645a47882c04040…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 237 notices in the record whose component field names latches/locks/linkages. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V072, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v072/
The copy quoted above hashes to 4643d820838d6dff8645a47882c04040…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
Other Volvo notices we hold
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- 26V444: 2026 VOLVO VHD, VNL (4), VNR (4), VN, and VAH
- 26V350: 2026 VAH, 2026-2027 VN, VHD, VNL (4), and 2027 VNR (4)
- 26V260: 2026-2027 VNR (4) and 2025-2027 VNL (4)
- 26V208: 2025-2027 VNL (4) and 2026-2027 VNR (4)
- 26V186: 2025-2026 VNL (4)
- 26V184: 2025-2026 VNL (4)
- 26V136: 2025-2026 EX30 and 2026 EX30CC
All 211 Volvo campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 26V072 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5e2e98d6 - Consequence
3615526d - 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 26V072 · how the whole register is watched
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