Category: Volvo 850, S70, V70, V70 XC, C70 Forum

Moin municipality, I would like to introduce myself to you before I will be able to answer questions as an absolute Volvo newcomer. I hope, however, that this will be kept within the framework. Actually, I am a BMW driver, but on recommendation I have now switched to a Volvo V70, which I acquired yesterday. I come from the Osnabrücker country, my name is Jens, I am a family father, a child, 2 Labradores and I am a camping fan. So I like to travel through the countryside. To the vehicle: V70, 144 HP, built in 1997, electr. FH, ZV, ABS, T eileleder, radio cassette (that must be changed quickly ), cargo space cover, luggage separation net, aluminum wheels etc. The vehicle drives well and only got a large inspection 1000 km before, a short time before the Lambda probe was exchanged. Invoice about inspection is available, invoice about the Lambda probe, only the part, too. Now I have two three questions about the vehicle, since it is completely new for me. First, with the ZV the passenger door does not open. When I lock, I can’t unlock the trunk from the driver’s door. I think you can hear a crack, but nothing happens. The electric window lifter on the rear right works, unfortunately none of the driver’s door’s switch unit. Do you have any idea what it might be like to do it? I’m happy about constructive contributions.

Hello together…. With me the brakes are at the front in the next 4-6 weeks. Documents and discs have done their job and have to be changed. Which brand do you guess like that? At w and g in Hamburg there is currently the set for the front offer for 100/100€. Which brand is behind it unfortunately not listed. I have seen a favorable offer from Barum….Barum is ATE, isn’t it? But something worse in quality I have read. I mean, the Skandix currently the price e for Volvo has reduced original brake discs. Wouldn’t be a possibility….I think the disc costs around 50€. Be happy about your opinions…. VG Bird

Hello together! After I want to upgrade my S70 with wood and leather (looks without, as I think, a little poor out for a car of this (price) class), but I read on the Volvo accessories homepage that the installation of the root wood panels is supposed to be quite difficult, I wanted to ask if one of you has already gained experience there. I don’t want to just pull something out of it or otherwise jump on it and also scrap something. a Tips and Tricks? And by the way: may someone also have a set of wooden blinds lying around at home? Greetings, Peter.

My autom. air conditioning has actually been having problems for a long time. Now that the cold season starts, it starts to get annoying again. The problem is to regulate the temperature. When I start with my TDI in the morning, the jets come out after about 5 minutes of warm air. For a diesel, actually, quite fast. The climate then heats well on about 20 minutes, everything is normal. After that, it suddenly starts to regulate the temperature down. Mostly first the driver side, then Then the passenger side. Then only cool air comes out of all nozzles. That stays for a short time (about 5 minutes) until it gets a bit uncomfortable cold. Then it gets warm again. That repeats on longer trips then. The climate is actually only switched on if necessary. But if I turn it on, the air is cooled down even further through the climate. Then I try to set the temperature higher (25C), nothing happens. The temperature remains constant cool. the temperature on max., comes immediately warm air from the nozzles. I have read out errors. Sporadic (approx. every 3 weeks) come “414/417 Stowage air sensor blower blocked” and quite rarely “Error 211 error at the signal of the damper switch”. I can delete the errors, after that is also quiet. I have already passed the flap adjustment program several times successfully (last one week). After that also no change. I had the climate control part already against my reserve part. l replaced. No change. Is this behavior more or less normal? Somehow the heating seems to be digital (on/off). What I find strange, when cold air comes, the temperature controller has no effect at all. My suspicion is that one or more temperature sensors provide incorrect values or the damper makes for the temperature mist. Unfortunately, I don’t get any corresponding errors. Although the error 211 indicates this, which comes only very rarely. Any idea?

Good morning! The C70 I is having two problems right now. One of them can be painful: the bonnet doesn’t stay reliably up. This bothers me especially when I have my head in the engine compartment. Question: Is there something that can be rectified or do I have to help myself with a latte? The second: The glass of the right headlight had at first only a tiny hole of a stone stroke. Then it became a crack that is slowly getting longer. Now I have a dealer in Engl But how do I get the headlight out to change the glass? This seems to be completely different with this car (C70) than with the V70. Do you know any instructions on how to build the headlights? That would be very helpful. Thank you! Many greetings from Sydney Dieter

Hy, so I have a V70 Bj.11/99 2,4T with a B5244T engine. About 3 years ago this one was replaced on a same B5244T engine. Now again an engine damage on the same cylinder (we suspect the injection nozzles). I bring my old head to the workshop so that we can possibly use the valves (from 2 make 1, logically via engine workshop, with valve seat ect. everything new. Now call me and say the heads are not the same, these have different valve guide one with 6mm of the other with 7mm…..*joy* They wanted to work up the head of the alen engine right away, because the current one has a crack where (maybe there is the problem regarding exhaust gas values ?). They want to compare the right engine numbers now, whether the head of my original engine fits at all on the block of the exchange engine (not that there is a tiny change. You can use the Volvo in any case, because they themselves do not know about their engine differences – I remember that they didn’t even know the difference between the engine type with the additional 1-4…. Now where exactly do I find this engine number ? (possibly with the timing belt, or is this also where in the vehicle papers – although mostly there is only the engine type and in Germany there is nothing at all I think) Thank you in advance Jerry (think that it will not run Volvo technically for long…..)

Hello! Today, while driving in the city prison, the cooling water became so hot that I had to drive right because it steamed out of the engine compartment. The journey was only 6 km in. I let the car cool down and filled up the cooling water which was empty after the opening of the tank (it sprayed) and then drove on 2-3 km. The identical problem occurred again. I once again waited for the container for the cooling water to be filled up. the thermostat was broken and changed it directly for 40€. After a few hours I was able to pick up the car again and drove to the sample 30 km. The engine is not heated this time but for that the sign for the coolant turned on. I don’t know how full the workshop made the cooling tank but when it was checked it was only half filled and I put it again for safety. Since then, the car has been standing. In the workshop, the car has run for 30 minutes to test whether the engine is overheated again or the tank is overcooked. They said that in your opinion the problem is probably solved. So my question, should I just drive around again and check if the cooling liquid is getting less again, because then I definitely have to go back to the workshop. Or should I rather go directly there again? If you googelt you come to s This change costs more than the 1,000 € I paid for the Volvo and then I would rather sell the box directly again as an export car even though I have not yet driven 1000 kilometers with it. Best regards, Roland

Hello, I would like to change the crankcase ventilation and the not so completely baptismal vacuum hoses in my Volvo 850 (Bj. 96, the 2.4L 10V 106kW B5252S-Motor). One of the hoses had recently caused a vacuum leak, which I have just cut a little bit and thus cut off the damaged spot. The hose goes to the bottom of this component which is marked on the photo with the red arrow, which also has a hose the i m Nothing ends (I pulled out under the air filter box and put it to the right). I have already looked at diagrams with the vacuum hoses for the 850, but could not make this part out. Could it belong to the “EGS-System of GAT” which is installed according to the vehicle license to reach the Euro2 pollutant class? If yes, someone knows where to connect the hose normally? As for the crankcase ventilation: At Skandix it says that the engine is on a ” newer” A variant of the crankcase ventilation can be retrofitted”. Does anyone happen to know the differences to the older parts? Does the less easily block them? Otherwise I have to ask Skandix directly. I thought that I would first disassemble it and then see which hoses have to be replaced concretely and what else rips off when disassembly, in order to order everything in a wash-up.

Hello Volvo Forengemeinde, I have a problem with my Volvo V70I, built 01/2000, 2.4 Ltr 103 kw. When I start the car, the SRS lamp does not go out. In addition, and that I do the actual phenomenon, goes as long as the SRS lamp lights up, neither the Kpl. Tacho lighting, nor the blower and also not the radio. After the SRS lamp goes out (about a minute) the ventilation, speedometer lighting, radio goes without problems. During the ride this error does not occur. My free WHO kstatt has read out the error memory once. No error except that the passenger belt lock is listed. Now my question: Can all this have to do with each other in everything? If I think about it this way, the SRS error should always be present with a “defected belt lock”, ergo the lamp should be permanently luminous. What worries me is that the phenomenon of the missing speedometer lighting etc. is always present. What can this be? who, without any real errors in the memory, it becomes a big search. On the edge: The interior lighting no longer goes out when I start the engine or set it on ignition. It burns almost constantly. Can this be related somehow because both “mistakes” occurred at the same time? I hope one or the other has some kind of tip for me, what it could be, what I could check, what the workshop could check etc etc. I thank in advance for Your answers. Greetings Hendrik

Hi! I got my driver’s license a few weeks ago, and I want to buy a car now. My parents tend to have a golf, but I want to have a V70. Simply because it is nice and big. The only problem is: I have a maximum of €2,000, because my parents don’t want to add anything if it becomes a Volvo. Now the question: Is a V70 suitable as a first car, or rather not? And further: What would be the maximum mileage you should take? On mobile.d e there is the V70 already from 1,000€, but then also gladly times with 350,000 kilometers. Is that definitely too much or you can take one like that (because Volvo is otherwise known for many kilometers) Thank you already in advance!