Hello, my story about the V50: this was my first v50 and will also have been my last volvo! I bought the v50 in June 2013. it was bj 2004 and had 216,000 km down. volvo I had actually always connected with durability, missed. it then started in the january that he lost direction and so drove as if he did without turbo, which the ignition lock also his service qiuttierte he had to volvo. there the ignition lock was changed and a cable repaired! cost 350€ then again and again sporadically in between starting difficulties. in november then the warning “motor system maintenance required. so again workshop, with the result that the magnet valve has given up its mind. there is according to volvo only as a complete unit with, I forgot what, cost point 1500€ but still luck had the the laborstat the valve could find individually. thus cost points of the entire repair:500€ next problem did not wait for long: May 2015 oil loss. so new oil tank gasket and since the shock absorbers were also changed by! juli then no power assumption with stutters and run out of the engine. on it 3 injectors were changed and again the magnet valve:cost point 1500€ that was then but then not the end of the banner bar, in between when it was cold no gas acceptance! and then on the last Saturday, with the car was shopping, and wanted to go an hour later! how sat I could but not. dare ran like a bag of nuts, and went out. end was towed into the factory and the diagnosis was not interested in me anymore! but the agr valve should be now! however, it doesn’t matter, since I need a car for my way to work we have ordered a vw now. and thus the volvo starts his last drive today and arrives tomorrow then in the press!!! with the volvo I really got off for the first time and only got annoyed! to the many money ha The volvo also cost us a lot of nerves!