Category: Volvo S40, V40 Forum

Hello to all of you here. So my questions go there that I would like to buy a used Volvo V4 ( limousine or station wagon). Since I am currently studying I can only spend a maximum of 3000€. Now I would like to know from you if the purchase is worth it for a used car of Volvo? So at Autoscout24 I have found some already for the money, only what must be paid attention to before the purchase at Volvo v40? Is this a big problem or not. Or what should I pay attention to before the purchase of a Volvo V40? For example, I am very interested in something like this: http://www.autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=ckdqxfgdrxqb Only where can the hidden defects lie there, want to buy a nice car where I just plug in to get from A to B. I can do that nicely as a student. And how does it look like it with insurance with Volvo, since I am still at 70%? Thanks very much for your help already… CrowTau

Hello together, after two Astra F I am looking for a new car. At a local dealer is en V40 with the 1.8l machine and 125hp. Is from 99 and has run bubby 180TKm. Currently he has no TÜV. So what do I have to pay attention to when looking at the car? Does he have typical rust spots like the Astra e.g.? Maintenance-technically the astra as an 8 valve is quite trouble-free. How does it look at the Volvo? Have already read that the parts should be quite expensive. Thanks already for your help Greeting Martin

Hello, I decided to replace the standard radio from Volvo with a double DIN radio. As is often to be read here the guide rails have to be right and left out. That was no problem thanks to the help of a work colleague. Now I put in the 2DIN mounting frame and had to find out that I have a good 1 cm in height. I come exactly measured to 11.5 mm. Oh, how do you get the frame in it now. If I have to think about the frame quite high because you always see the upper edge and it is really unsightly when you look at a 1.1 cm gap always. How did you solve the problem?

Hello dear volvo community I have the following problem with my v40 1,9d 85kw bj2002 in the early years started my brakes to jerk when braking no matter what speed. this became worse and really extreme with an increasingly driven track (all car vibrated and steering wheel beats extremely) in the summer new brakes let in and off to napel with the car. there in the city traffic I already ran a slight jerk again. this was on the return journey (1800km autobahn without strong brakes) again slowly but steadily more-> result: condition as before with old brakes. let now again with the conclusion with old brakes. on Kullanz. then again only city traffic and a bit overland and a total of 3000km autobahn (all again very busy!) and again it started as before and ended again again again again have been new brakes in it (this time front and back; before only before that they have moved each time) and it could have been again with the brand name of the brand.

Hello! 2 incandescent lamps in the climate control unit have burned through. Have the lights expanded. To Volvo. He really wants to have 4 eurons per piece. Now is my question: Is there where else to buy or is only the way to the Volvo dealer? P.s: Does one of them fit? http://www.reichelt.de/?ACTION=3;ARTICLE=9671;GROUPID=3050;PROVID=2351http://www.avb-elektronik.de/…rlamp-40ma-57x13213444085a-p-4731.html mfg paul

Hallöchen, I have now joined the group of V40 owners as well. It is a 97er 1.8 automatic 170Tkm I like the car very much, but I have a few problems or questions about you for many years. 1. I find the brake relatively spongy, but what I have read is normal. Is that true or can you recommend to me reasonable other brakes? 2. Something is loose in the amature board at the front left, which is soldering/klappert like sour with cold engine in the condition that it is not nice any more. When driving ice out. Is as said only when driving stage is in place and the engine is cold, so relatively high standing gas has 3. somehow I have not quite understood the ZV. Open and close all the doors as they should, but I can only open and close the trunk flap with the key. Is there any kind of fix there? Up to now I have only read about non-opening or closing doors. 4. I can also not close my tank lid. No matter how I can close it all, I can open and close it again with the key. I can’t find my little help.

Moin, my v40 has had the problem for about 2 weeks that it starts very badly… The starter doesn’t go crazy, he just stops shooting then I try it again then he turns a little longer and stops, usually with the 3 times kicked clutch he then jumps on. If you think I’m stupid – battery is full!

Hello guys, I’ve also become a moose driver for a few days now. I bought a used V40 T4. Year of construction 1999. Can someone tell me how to change the bulb at the front right at the yellow lamp? And how do I get the radio code out if there is no code card anymore? mfG Haccone

Volvo V40 BJ.2002 200000km Help we have a problem that doesn’t end:Short report From November 2010: pressure in the cooling water tank, heating goes only occasionally, still heating is no longer possible or the engine is not warm, cooling water is not in the container, when you turn it up it comes up with high pressure. Condition worsens, car starts to cook constantly.Thermostat changed February 2011: heating went no more, cooling water is constantly missing, but does not run out, after that repair of the head seal, lid exchange from the cooling water tank. Car drives 2 weeks without problems, afterwards the same thing again: cooling water is not in the container, much pressure, heating is cold, temperature display goes up, car cooks, afterwards the heating goes away if you are lucky. This time however, there are stains under the car. Workshop means now the cooler jumps too late, want to change the feeler now. know how said I didn’t want to laugh again, but according to measurement everything is closed. Please have left 2000 euros in the workshop. Can it be my friend’s built?

Hello, I’m new here and it would be nice if experienced Volvo drivers could give me some tips. I would like to buy an older Volvo S40 for every day 40 km of work journey. Definitely no V40 or any other station wagon. I would like to buy an S 40 year 2003/2004 – so the last ones from this series. Normally would be completely long with the 1.8 year, but I read here that this one has a Renault gearbox and I don’t want that. I don’t find any useful overview page from which the fitting of the respective transmissions etc. shows. I know that car would be very old, but I had a 22 year old Japanese driver for this work journey, who would have driven for a long time if they hadn’t broken it. So … is your opinion after the S 40 of this generation suitable for my purpose? A non-hooking gearbox would also be one of the few prerequisites, as well as not too narrow seats with a bit of side support for the thighs due to belt disc problems would be nice, but utopian. The 2.0T was recommended here elsewhere, since no Renault gearbox and rather volvotypically it looks like the best of your opinion.