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Most issues reported nowadays is quite minor and not common at all. If any problem could be common and hit 10% of owners we'd see lots of reports here.

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Onto the topic, what are common problems among issues reported here from multiple cars. A list of problems collected from the reports here is a collection of problems ever happened in this group of cars. It is very different on each individual car in this group of reported cars. Some cars in this group may have hit many or multiple problems and were brought back by Volvo. Others hit much less and are fixed and running. Furthermore, this group of reported cars are the most heavily hit group. Look at the entire set of MY2016 cars ever built and the problems happened on each individual car is much much less than what reported here.

So talking about common problems, we'll need to pick the problems that have been reported on multiple cars here, not the collective list on all reported cars.

There were a fair share of such problems reported here in MY2016 and especially the early 2016 cars. Mostly not happening for cars built in 2017 or later. Such problems usually are addressed by service bulletins. Many, but not all of the problems listed in previous posts are of this kind. Some examples are: inverter module on T8, high voltage coolant heater on T8, moonroof leak, a/c drain hose leak, air suspension noise, brake squeak, door panel rattle, battery drain, temperature sensor, gps location, HUD position, etc.

There are also issues reported on not so many cars and addressed by service bulletins, such as spark plugs.

There are still several issues reported in multiple later cars but such issues are mostly software ones. These, could be useful for OP and what OP wants to know, the common problems with the new XC90.
 
These threads are important so a new owner knows what to look out for--particularly when a lot of this stuff is only covered during the 1 year "adjustment period." If you don't get it taken care of during the first 12,000 miles, you have to live with it forever or foot the bill to get it fixed.
But I don't think it very useful to know about ten to twenty issues that maybe only one or two will happen.
You know that many things can be broken on any car, and in 1000 cars, 200 issues have ever happened, then what?

In the end, only the critical things really matters. If transmission problem was reported often, that'd be really scary.
 
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