Volvo 240 1975–2017 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SPJ3176020 · NHTSA communication 10127339 · issued Jul 15, 2016
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
1975–2017
model years
60
vehicle entries
Official summary
This document is a Service Product Journal: Memory used for VIDA is not fully optimized and below examples of symptoms might therefore occur. VIDA will run slow after some time. VIDA might freeze. Certain operations might stop working. In order to release stored session memory, restart VIDA as needed throughout the day in order to minimize the risk to experience above symptoms.
Vehicles covered
- 1975 Volvo 240
- 1976 Volvo 240
- 1978 Volvo 240
- 1980 Volvo 240
- 1982 Volvo 240
- 1983 Volvo 240
- 1984 Volvo 240
- 1985 Volvo 240
- 1986 Volvo 240
- 1987 Volvo 240
- 1988 Volvo 240
- 1989 Volvo 240
- 1990 Volvo 240
- 1991 Volvo 240
- 1992 Volvo 240
- 1993 Volvo 240
- 1977 Volvo 242
- 1979 Volvo 244
- 1975 Volvo 260
- 1976 Volvo 260
- 1977 Volvo 260
- 1978 Volvo 260
- 1979 Volvo 260
- 1980 Volvo 260
- 1981 Volvo 260
- 1982 Volvo 260
- 1983 Volvo 260
- 1984 Volvo 260
- 1985 Volvo 740
- 1986 Volvo 740
- 1987 Volvo 740
- 1988 Volvo 740
- 1989 Volvo 740
- 1990 Volvo 740
- 1991 Volvo 740
- 1992 Volvo 740
- 1982 Volvo 760
- 1983 Volvo 760
- 1984 Volvo 760
- 1985 Volvo 760
- 1986 Volvo 760
- 1987 Volvo 760
- 1988 Volvo 760
- 1989 Volvo 760
- 1990 Volvo 760
- 1987 Volvo 780
- 1988 Volvo 780
- 1989 Volvo 780
- 1990 Volvo 780
- 1991 Volvo 780
- 1993 Volvo 850
- 1994 Volvo 850
- 1995 Volvo 850
- 1996 Volvo 850
- 1997 Volvo 850
- 1991 Volvo 940
- 1992 Volvo 940
- 1993 Volvo 940
- 1994 Volvo 940
- 1995 Volvo 940
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.