Volvo Ex30, Volvo Ex30cc, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Volvo Car USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 11 March 2026. 1,584 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2025-2026 EX30 and 2026 EX30CC vehicles. The seat belt warning system may not activate the audible warning chime as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
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: R10365. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V136 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 26V136 cover?
- Volvo Ex30, Volvo Ex30Cc, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2025-2026 EX30 and 2026 EX30CC vehicles. The seat belt warning system may not activate the audible warning chime as intended.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the terminals at the audio module connector, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 26, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car’s number for this recall is R10365.
- 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 R10365, 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 audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V136 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volvo Car USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Front:Warning Light/Devices |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | VOLVO EX30, VOLVO EX30CC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2025-2026 EX30 and 2026 EX30CC vehicles. The seat belt warning system may not activate the audible warning chime as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
The consequence
An audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the terminals at the audio module connector, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 26, 2026. Owners may contact Volvo Car’s customer service at 1-800-458-1552. Volvo Car’s number for this recall is R10365. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 13, 2026.
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 570dc79079ee93e56e465cc8136fd820…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 2026111, recorded 11 March 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert SR/00945/26, published 3 April 2026, raised by Belgium (the Commission’s own page) (23 days after the American filing)
Matched on R10365, 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V136, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v136/
The copy quoted above hashes to 570dc79079ee93e56e465cc8136fd820…. 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
- 26V513: 2027 VNL (4) and VNR (4)
- 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)
- 26V103: 2025 EX30
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 26V136 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
04f48d3f - Consequence
ec308e7e - 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 26V136 · how the whole register is watched
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