Volvo Preliminary Evaluation PE05041: THROTTLE CONTROL MALFUNCTION
1999 Volvo V70
THROTTLE CONTROL MALFUNCTION
Vehicle Speed Control
- Summary
- PE05-041 was opened on July, 26, 2005, based on 136 consumer complaints to ODI alleging throttle control malfunctions in the subject vehicles.ODI has now received 591 complaints of ETM failures which allege symptoms with potential safety related consequences.these include allegations of engine stall, vehicle surging forward without accelerator input, vehicle hesitation upon acceleration and sudden and unexpected transition into reduced performance operation (limp mode).Volvo submitted over 2,900 complaints concerning the ETM in the subject vehicles during PE05-041.ODI's preliminary analysis of a sample the Volvo complaints identified approximately 55 percent with one or more of the symptoms described above.ODI is continuing its assessment of the information contained in the Volvo complaints. In November 2005, to resolve an investigation by the California air resources board, Volvo announced that it would extend the warranty coverage to 10 years / 200,000 miles for the ETM in approximately 356,000 model year 1999 through 2002 passenger cars sold in the United States and Canada.under Volvo's policy, vehicles that experience ETM failures will receive a variety of repairs including ETM cleaning, reprogramming the engine control module and/or replacement of the ETM. This investigation has been upgraded to an engineering analysis (EA05-021) to continue to assess the safety consequences of ETM failures in the subject vehicles.
- Documents (27)
- E-MAIL FROM MFR REQUESTING AN EXTENSTION - (EXTENSTION GRANTED BY ODI) * 09/12/2005 * p
- MEMO 12-2-2005 TO FILE
- MEMO 12-2-2005 TO TIS, ONE CD DATED 12/1/2005 FROM VOLVO
- OPENING RESUME APPROVED * 07/26/05 * P
- IR TO MFR * 07/28/05 * P
- VOLVO 9/15/2005 RESPONSE ONE CD-ROM PART 1 OF 3 PART SUBMISSION.
- VOLVO RESPONSE TO IR DATED JULY 28, 2005. W/ENCLOSURE
- VOLVO RESPONSE-CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 1)
- VOLVO RESPONSE-CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 2)
- VOLVO RESPONSE-CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS (GROUP 4)
- VOLVO RESPONSE TO IR DATED SEPTEMBER 29,2005 W/ENCLOSURE
- CLOSING RESUME APPROVED * 12/02/05 * p
- MEMO 12/5/2005 TO TIS, ONE CD VOLVO 12/5/05 ATTACHMENT
- MEMO TO TIS, TWO CD VOLVO 9/27/2005 QUESTION 7 & 12, QUESTION 4 REDACTED CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL REMOVED
- MEMO 12/5/2005 TO TIS, ONE CD, VOLVO 12/5/2005
- VOLVO RESPONSE- CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS (GROUP 5)
- VOLVO RESPONSE- CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS (GROUP 6)
- VOLVO RESPONSE - CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 9)
- VOLVO RESPONSE-CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 7)
- VOLVO RESPONSE- CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 8)
- VOLVO RESPONSE - CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 10)
- VOLVO RESPONSE - CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. (GROUP 11)
- VOLVO 9/27/2005 LETTER TO OCC REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT
- VOLVO 11/16/2005 LETTER TO ODI
- MEMO 11/16/2005 TO TIS, ONE CD, VOLVO 11/16/2005 CONSUMER ATTACHMENT
- VOLVO RESPONSE- CONSUMER COMPLAINTS (GROUP 3)
- MEMO 12/5/2005 TO THE FILE
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