Category: Volvo S60, S80, V70 2, XC70, XC90 Forum

Hello, after a long wait finally news of the new Volvo: the vehicle has been passed on by the French dealer to my importer, the papers have been received for payment with me, but now I have to see: the car is a vehicle document, a used car, or also: ` a used car. I still think this must be a mistake, I ordered a new car and check in the order: new vehicle. AHA. Interesting. Next: the vehicle was registered in France already on 27.12.2005. (not good for resale) 6 weeks later the French importer reports the car to my importer for resale. 6 weeks! I am not bound by the contract to purchase, allegedly the car was not used as a demonstration car, what I can hardly imagine with Inscription equipment, therefore the Gretchen question: Who would take the car in my situation? (price advantage to the German dealer: approx. 2000 Euro after tough negotiation) Greeting Pilar

Hello together, on Thursday I (and my wife) get a new C 70 convertible. I (we are happy!) After I was always very happy with the XC90 D5, EZ 2.2004 and I sold our “second car” Passat TDI year 1998 after more than 200.00 Km on eBay, it should be a convertible. I looked at various cars. BMW 330CI (also three-year-old too expensive). MINNI (super saleswoman but in leasing more expensive than the C 70. -with wholesale agreement) VW EOS – the seller called – although I signaled concrete purchase intentions for today only after three days. Pretence “technical problems with the PC” etc. Basically, a purchase decision depends heavily on the seller – and therefore I write these lines- I would be interested beyond the car what experiences you have made when buying your car. I mean some people really don’t need it and that bothers me. With the new Volvo dealer from Delmenhorst, who here in Oldenburg I was honest to say hello.

Again, I have to get angry with blue and think, what do the idiots who do that think? About what it’s about? Well, I’ve been thinking about buying an SUV for a long time, my first favorite was the Touareg 2.5 TDI. When I was studying the data, I noticed that the “small” T-Reg is a savings version, smaller brakes, etc. How can you save on the brakes? OK, then I found a special offer on the Internet at a Volvo dealer, a 7-seater XC90 with reinforced brakes (the 5-seater also has a smaller brake) and pretty much the equipment that I would have taken before. In the professional press, the XC90 was pretty good, why not? The only manco – the small tank, it’s only 80 liters compared to the T-Reg with 100. But the XC90 as a diesel has only 68 liters!!! What is that supposed to do? That’s why I can’t build up the same tank in both models?

Hello Swiss V70 driver! Have since last Wednesday after 15 years Saab my first Volvo (V70R). An absolute top vehicle, although my last Saab 9-5 Aero SportCombi was not from “bad parents”… How it goes, also with a brand change comes up one or the other question! Certainly in this country (CH) one of you has an S60 or V70 with the communication pack, so with telephone. Now to the actual question: from meem telephone provider Sunrise I received a second SIM card in advance (of course against payment), which I can operate each time before driving on my mobile phone. To this extent everything works perfectly. Only I wonder, which command I can control the SIM card in the car even without my mobile phone!? In theory this would have to happen over *100#2, but this is apparently not supported by the Volvo keyboard! Would be nice if someone could give me a tip! Grüessli from the enthusiastic R driver…

I have now been able to do a test drive in a V70 D5 with a performance chassis and 18″ wheels. A very nice chassis, which I criticized ́s swinging’ of the normal suspension was gone, yet there was still enough comfort. I noticed negatively that the whole vehicle seemed a bit ́klapperig ́, certainly a result of the harder shocks caused by the suspension. That was noticed but not really bad. Bad for me (my purely personal feeling) once again the extremely soft seats. For over 25 years I have been paying attention to the fact that in my vehicles (much-drivers with approx. 50,000 km / year) tight padded sports seats, partly Recaro seats are installed, with the result that I have no back problems at all. (whether this really is due to the seats, I do not know of course) For my decision, these seats unfortunately mean the KO for the V70. A little pity, the V70 really likes me quite well and it lies exactly in the middle between the two remaining BMW 3er touring and a competent Avant answer.

Hello V8-Fans and Dreams, the following post I have just posted in a different thread for a member who wants to order a V8 at the same time. But I think that there are others who are interested in the idea: think about it again with the V8….drive it in detail at least 2 days in all situations, under all conceivable circumstances…. Was yesterday on the way… lot of highway with it…. When you set off the “I love V8-engines” glasses, a XC90 (okay!) remains, which seems to have an electric drive when driving slowly (okay?) and when driving faster a six-cylinder (not okay) and an annoying-nervous switching gear (not okay)….and an exorbitant consumption, which is in KEINSTER relation to performance!!! The difference to the D5 is really expected to be around 70% in the evening.

Does anyone have experience with the Tom Tom 700 in the XC 90 where it’s good to fix it has good performance maybe even better than RTI there are otherwise usable alternatives?

Hi, a few days ago I had already thrown a question into the round ( delivery stop to Italy ), unfortunately I have hardly received any answers except about 80% unqualified crap. Now I have to correct myself even: ALSO, the thing is even more complicated, allegedly there is currently no possibility to bring reimports to Germany, but the vehicles should already have arrived in the exporting countries. However, it would be even no matter from which country the cars should be imported !! When I called Volvo Germany they knew of course of not’s, but was probably also not to be expected, because this is forbidden under EU directive. Has someone received a new car from abroad in the last weeks and if so from which country and from which dealer ?

Hello guys, I had to say yesterday when I switched to WR with horror that my summer tyres have only 3mm profile at the front. Well, that may not be special for some people, but I have so far only driven about 20Tkm, exactly one summer long. Is that normal with the D5, that he is leaving the rubber like that? What about other tires manufacturers, with me was still the original equipment replacement Pirellis on it. Greetings Michael

….the VOLVO XC90 Standard ALU-riding boards all know, but somehow we didn’t really like them. Recently I saw the ALU-riding boards on his new X5 with a friend. That’s how I imagine this, really meaningful and shapely incorporated into the vehicle. At the XC90 they somehow look …. attached afterwards, they are also, but … There are already a few attractive alternatives. We found nothing on the Heico pages … ? Best greetings from the north …