Volvo Recalls 113,600 Cars Worldwide for Air-Bag, Steering Flaws
Volvo Cars, the Swedish automaker owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., is recalling 113,600 cars in 80 countries for potential faults with air bags and power-steering hoses, a spokesman said.
Volvo is asking owners of 100,100 vehicles worldwide to visit dealers or authorized repair shops to fix a wiring connector that poses a “tiny risk” that an air bag won’t function, Per-Ake Froberg, a spokesman, said by phone. A separate recall targets 13,500 S80L cars, sold only in China, to repair a hose leak that may make steering difficult, he said.
“While 100,000 cars is pretty big for Volvo, this is a fairly small recall from the perspective of the international auto industry,” Froberg said. Both recalls began last month.
Volvo Cars, which Geely bought from Ford Motor Co. on Aug. 2, has a target of selling 380,000 cars this year. Chief Executive Officer Stefan Jacoby is aiming to more than double deliveries to 800,000 vehicles annually in the next 10 years.
The models affected by the air-bag wiring fault are the S80, S80L, S60, V70 and XC70 as well as the XC60, the crossover that’s Gothenburg-based Volvo’s best-selling model. The market with the biggest number of air-bag related recalls is Sweden, with 19,273, while 11,400 cars in China and 9,753 cars in the U.S. are affected.
The air-bag fault will take about a half-hour to check and fix and the power-steering repair may take two hours, Froberg said. He declined to discuss the costs of the recalls.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ola Kinnander in Stockholm at okinnander@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net
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