Volvo XC70 2006

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a car with no suspension adjustment. When they took me into the svc.
"something might be bent". SHIT!!! You can't even adjust the camber
from the top of the strut-towers like on older Volvos. I've had Volvos
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Sure you can if you're willing to void the warranty. I suspect the strut
mounting holes can be enlarged and the strut nuts clamped down using
larger washers. That's been done with many car models which have little
or "no" room for adjustment.
agents in my office have optioned-out Crown Victorias that are both a
few years old, each with over 250K, and except for normal maintenance,
nothing has gone wrong. Last Summer, my A.C. went out twice. My C.V.
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Crown Vic is a good car. Sort of like a big Volvo 960 with a V-8 instead
of the I-6. I suspect you can find ex-cop cars for not too much, and the
cop cars get all of the handling goodies by default. Also look at the
Chyrsler/Dodge LX cars (Chargnum300).

-Andrew
 
The Crown Vic/Mercury Marquis/Town Car is capable of very high mileage
use with minimal repairs. Cop cars and Town Car "Limos" routinely put
over a half million miles on them.

John
 
Stephen said:
They uses shims to do the adjustment and have for a while. Hence
adjustment is seldom necessary. Most other better makes do this also.

I love my '01 V70 XC, not problems.
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They only use shims for toe in the rear.
Camber is not adjustable except by replacing the radius-rod type angled
struts with a different length. Actually, most "better" makes use an
eccentric on the inner end of those same rods to adjust camber.
 
Stephen said:
Some lenses have two bulbs. I have the message that a locations lamp is
burned out and it is because one of the two lamps in the left tail lamp
is burned out. You have to look twice to notice it. If all bulbs are
burning, then you have a filament mismatch. If you read the manual, you
are supposed to change bulbs in pairs to prevent this.
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I was told that the locator lamp is the small bulb or LED is what is at
the gear shift lever to tell you what gear that you're in. In fact, in
the owners' manual, the only place that locator term is used has to do
with the shift lever. I have no exterior bulbs burned out. The message
center only gives the message when the whether is cold...like when it's
50 degrees in the garage in the morning. Never comes on at any other time.
In my old '01 Cross Country manual, because I gather that is year that
you have, the section for the replacement of bulbs between pages 112 to
117 makes NO mention of replacing bulbs in pairs. And the list of bulbs
on page 141 makes no mention of a locator lamp, nor does the '03 manual
make any statement of that. When I went into the dealer the other day, I
specifically asked if there could be a resistance between two kinds of
bulbs and was told by the service manager (Not the service writer) that
that is something that went out with the old bulb sensor type that was
used until about ten years ago. Plus, I haven't replaced a bulb yet.
Watch them all burn out when I get on the road to L.A. this afternoon!
I'm in a quandry as to whether or not the dealer actually knows what
they're talking about.
 
Andrew said:
Sure you can if you're willing to void the warranty. I suspect the strut
mounting holes can be enlarged and the strut nuts clamped down using
larger washers. That's been done with many car models which have little
or "no" room for adjustment.




Crown Vic is a good car. Sort of like a big Volvo 960 with a V-8 instead
of the I-6. I suspect you can find ex-cop cars for not too much, and the
cop cars get all of the handling goodies by default. Also look at the
Chyrsler/Dodge LX cars (Chargnum300).

-Andrew
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I'm already out of warranty. Plus, it would be easier to adjust front
camber by just enlarging the upper bolt holes in the lower mounting
point of the strut.
And the thought of buying a 250K old police car? You should have been a
stand-up comedian. I can buy an optioned Crown Vic for about 20K less
than another Cross Country. The police interceptor package is available
for about $500.00 if the dealer is willing to go through the trouble of
ordering it for me. The Town Car Touring suspension is basically the
same as the Crown Victoria police suspension. Believe me it turns the
handling of the T.C. from night to day.
 
John said:
The Crown Vic/Mercury Marquis/Town Car is capable of very high mileage
use with minimal repairs. Cop cars and Town Car "Limos" routinely put
over a half million miles on them.

John
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You're absolutely right. I know the owner of Music Express limo service
in L.A. and they say that occasionally they will turn a three year old
T.C. with 600,000 miles that has only had normal maintenance. Same with
Charlie's here in Las Vegas. Somethmes during the Summer, they'll idle
those cars for two hours at a time several times a day keeping them cool
for customers. Believe me, those cars are driven hard! When you have to
be on time and if the driver is late, it comes out of his pocket not to
mention an irate customer that may never use them again.
 
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I was told that the locator lamp is the small bulb or LED is what is at
the gear shift lever to tell you what gear that you're in. In fact, in
the owners' manual, the only place that locator term is used has to do
with the shift lever. I have no exterior bulbs burned out. The message
center only gives the message when the whether is cold...like when it's
50 degrees in the garage in the morning. Never comes on at any other time.
In my old '01 Cross Country manual, because I gather that is year that
you have, the section for the replacement of bulbs between pages 112 to
117 makes NO mention of replacing bulbs in pairs. And the list of bulbs
on page 141 makes no mention of a locator lamp, nor does the '03 manual
make any statement of that. When I went into the dealer the other day, I
specifically asked if there could be a resistance between two kinds of
bulbs and was told by the service manager (Not the service writer) that
that is something that went out with the old bulb sensor type that was
used until about ten years ago. Plus, I haven't replaced a bulb yet.
Watch them all burn out when I get on the road to L.A. this afternoon!
I'm in a quandry as to whether or not the dealer actually knows what
they're talking about.
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It sounds like you got good information from the Service Manager.

The current balance type bulb failure sensor started disappearing with
the redesign of the 760 in 1988. The 240 and 740/940 kept the balance
type sensor until they went out of production, but all Volvos designed
since have had a current sensing type failure relay in the rear for the
rear bulbs (brake and tail) and another in front for the headlight low
beam. It isn't necessary to replace bulbs in pairs to keep the failure
light off with this system, but I've found that similar bulbs subject to
similar use have very similar lifetimes - if one brake bulb fails, the
other is usually not too far behind, so replacing them in pairs is a
good idea. The high mount brake light which uses LEDs (since 1998) have
proven to be quite durable.

On the downside it's really hard to change brake light bulbs the new
style V70. There just isn't room to get your hand in there properly (at
least on my dad's '01), so changing takes a lot more time than it
should.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)
 
Mike said:
It sounds like you got good information from the Service Manager.

The current balance type bulb failure sensor started disappearing with
the redesign of the 760 in 1988. The 240 and 740/940 kept the balance
type sensor until they went out of production, but all Volvos designed
since have had a current sensing type failure relay in the rear for the
rear bulbs (brake and tail) and another in front for the headlight low
beam. It isn't necessary to replace bulbs in pairs to keep the failure
light off with this system, but I've found that similar bulbs subject to
similar use have very similar lifetimes - if one brake bulb fails, the
other is usually not too far behind, so replacing them in pairs is a
good idea. The high mount brake light which uses LEDs (since 1998) have
proven to be quite durable.

On the downside it's really hard to change brake light bulbs the new
style V70. There just isn't room to get your hand in there properly (at
least on my dad's '01), so changing takes a lot more time than it
should.
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You're absolutely right about replacing bulbs in pairs. I've done it
that way for decades. It seems that by the time that one bulb burns out,
the other one already has that sooty coating on the inside of the glass.
I wonder why Volvo hasn't gone to LED tail lights yet. Regarding the
changing of the bulbs...they are in a wierdly placement, especially
having to remove the rear speakers to get to a couple of the other
bulbs. It's almost as bad as having to remove the sub-woofer to get to
the spare and trying to figure out how to unplug it to get it out of the
way. Luckily there is enough slack in the wiring to gingerly lift it
out of the way. I wasn't able to figure out how to disconnect the sub as
the manual tells you to do, since on that day it was as hot as blazes
and sweat was dripping into my eyes.
 
I was told that the locator lamp is the small bulb or LED is what is at
My '01 XC70 had a "rear locator lamp" burned out and it was the upper
left tail light. There are two tail lights on either side and my upper
one was burned out on the left side. When I replaced it the message
went away.
 
Stephen said:
My '01 XC70 had a "rear locator lamp" burned out and it was the upper
left tail light. There are two tail lights on either side and my upper
one was burned out on the left side. When I replaced it the message
went away.
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Thanks, Steve...
I'm going to check all the tail lights today, right I get done replacing
the batteries in all of the smoke detectors in the house.

Happy New Year to You and Yours.
 
I understand your frustration but 1degree is minor ,my old Fairlane was
several degrees negative on one side and several degrees positive on the
other from new .I had to put in a kit to correct it .An old Chrysler was
half an inch longer on one side had to pack the back shackles to align the
axle.Correct me please but is one degree a big deal ,what happens when your
in the car for example ,does the alignment change ? It should and was the
mechanic able to show you his results ?Many are the mechanics who would milk
us if they could they dont see a customer the see a wallet coming towards
them when you walk in .I lived in Tasmania for almost eight years and the
tricks and deceit from the Ford dealers amazed me let alone the little
garages .One mechanic punctured the brake booster on cars that came in so he
could replace the hissing sound with a new booster as well he was caught
changing parts to use on his own cars .The worst one was caught painting old
pads to look like new ones ,he was filmed doing it and shown on national
television .I am an ex cabbie 25 years was enough and the tricks I have
seen made me learn how to do things my self I had to so the Volvo is a sweet
car to me we have three of them .P\S another (trick )was to put pads into
auto Trans fluid to stop them squeaking ,they didn't brake well after that
either .
 
Fisrt of all, I would like to thank everybody who added a penny or two. It
was a great experience to ready your comments and recommendations.
Apparently my post has created long and interesting converstaion.
Now, a little on the subject : after considering all pros and cons I
eventually ended with a 3 year lease on XC70/2006. By now I've beed driving
this car for a month and I must say clearly: every day I love it more. The
2.5T/208HP engine gives me a lot of confidence. And Haldex AWD works just
great. This winter in Toronto is very mild but I have already experieced
extremely bad days with a lot of snow, ice and rain altogether. Driving in
such conditions was like adream. You cannot compare it to FWD.
There are few things I'd wish volvo improves in their next version. Perhaps
the most important is not the best blind spot visibility and steering, which
is a little on the heavy site. So far so good.
Once again, great thanks for your help.
Marek.
 
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