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

After I have read in your Freds always something of top speeds beyond the 200km/h, today I am full of expectation once again in the demonstration car of my friend (8600km). Was over the maximum possible 190km/h (on a level track without headwind) on the Tacho then a bit disappointed. The hand-stopped 12 sec. on 100km/h may come from my suboptimal because not yet practiced switch egg. Does the larger part of the new D5 really run over 200km/h? Greetings to the forum from the beautiful autumnal Allgäu!

Hello together, since I have only read along so far, I want to finally contribute something. Currently I drive an 8 year old Honda CRV. Now it is time to buy a new vehicle. This will be an XC90. After many dealer requests I have not yet been offered the appropriate discount. Since I spent this year holiday in Denmark, I wanted to take the chance to get an offer from a Volvo dealer from Denmark. Denmark, who knows, has very high taxes. Since you have to save some!!! Because also the imports of importers have already some percent more than the German dealers. The anticipation was quickly vanished. The net price given to me by the dealer was after the conversion of crowns into euros and the surcharge of the VAT more expensive than the German list price. What did I do wrong? Did someone have better experiences with reimports from the XC90 ?

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Who’s going to install the Digital Jukebox? Hello, who of you already ordered the Digital Jukebox? And besides, I would be interested in what you have to pay at your dealers. To get a price comparison. If someone of you has already installed one and can explain pictures delivery or also the exact operation at the moment, everything is only daring when it comes to operation. Greeting Michael N.

Hi, I have a question. I’m interested in such an XC90. A little bit more unusual would not be bad for him. Now I’ve seen a lot more in the TV cars – of course in the USA – which had simply crazy rims. These were polished, huge (min 20″ and – tja, just something that you just never see here (a technique that still turned on in the stand) – partly also gilded (that would be really too much, however, is only funny). I picked up a name of a rim company in the USA: Asanti just the madness!! Almost too much of the good… And then still the name “Giovanni”. My question is whether such a design has to stay a German taboo again by the TÜV, or if I could drive the rims (if the format is right for the car) here. (from the purchase price we don’t talk better. hehehe) !! I don’t want to be misunderstood – I don’t think I have to buy such a rim, after all, I’m not a rap star (but rather the fan of Chopin).

Hello, in some threads it was said by some participants that one can expect “this or that” at a certain price. I would like to take up this topic with you. However, I find it difficult to get started because we would have to group a lot of things. What would be price classes? What would be perceived as “high quality”? I get this: – here in the forum it is said that one has to expect for “round” 60,000 euros for an XC90 V8, i.e. 10,000 euros more than for an XC90 T6, “more” than just a larger engine. My counterthesis: the larger the car, the less you get as a countervalue for it, but you buy prestige. Best example: BMW x5. Was there in 2003 a 4.6is for 78,200 euros, which has just 27hp more than the 4.4i for 62,700. (good of the 4.4 needs the sprot package, the met-lace, i.e. real price difference: 12,000 euros) Or differently: how much cheaper must a VOL be equipped as a comparable Audi/BM or VOL for a better version of the Audi/M

Hello people would like to introduce me, am new to the Volvo Forum but not new to Motor-Talk since I drove Opel before and who knows the abbreviation AT-5 (Aut.Griebe) can imagine that I had a lot to write. The constant customer service sentence ????”You are the first one that happens….”????? I could not hear it anymore. Therefore “back too the roots” and bought me a VOLVO again. Now the choice was on the S60R which I bought with approx.13000 km year 2004 as a leader and now about 20000 km without problems drove. I now have a very loud noise “klonck” which occurs again and again on the left front but so irregularly that I can not clearly assign it. It’s like if something is tense and then loosing so that you hear it very loudly and want to enter the steering position maybe at the right turns it doesn’t always occur and it comes to me as if the front is slightly shifted. But it’s also when you drive a few times and then there is no longer a problem.

Hello, first of all I would like to thank you for the many interesting and helpful contributions here. Since more than 10 years I am a convinced Volvo driver (currently 850) and plan now the purchase of an R-model. Yesterday I had the opportunity to have a test drive with a V70R (BJ 10/04). Without a doubt a hammer vehicle! In the previous articles I have actually read only good about the adjustable chassis of the R-models (apart from the transfer problem). In the test drive I was surprised now that the Comfort mode is in my opinion already quite hard (at least in comparison to a “normal” car). Furthermore I noticed that in normal driving mode in the city there is hardly any difference between the sport and the comfort mode, especially with regard to the suspension comfort, if one drives e.g. through small impact holes etc. (if one heats through the angle mechanism, it may look different). Now my question: Can you share these impressions?

Hello, I bought a Volvo Navi DVD 2006 for my V70 Bj 2002 from Ebay (before I read that there might be problems with old devices and new DVD’s). Prompt my reader didn’t recognize the “new” DVD. But unfortunately the device can’t read the old DVD anymore. The friendly one had to run through a cleaning DVD, but unfortunately it didn’t work. On repeated attempts it went again briefly, but since about 300 attempts nothing is possible anymore. According to the previous reports the old DVD from 2002 would still have to work, and therefore I would like to open and clean the reader. Does anyone have an idea like this, or maybe a plan B or C that at least makes the old DVD readable again? Thank you for your suggestions. Greeting Sven PS: The friendly one offered me the exchange of the device with Kulanzschlag for about 300 EUR. Together with the price for the 2006 DVD this is a whole lot.

It has become a Volvo again! After my Saab 9-3I (210hp) and various years and conversions (see Saab forum ) I have been looking for a bigger station wagon for a while. The trunk of the old 9-3 is hit only by the E-Class station wagon, but I wanted better seats and more interior space. What I no longer wanted was a car, where I start to remodel everything again. Motor tuning, brakes etc. should, like the equipment (Navi, telephone, PDC etc.) largely advance The Saab 9-5 Aero and the Volvo T5 failed. After a long search and various considerations, test drives etc. it has now become a hand-operated 2005 “R” with 45Tkm on the clock. Top equipped and perfectly maintained by the Volvo dealer as a leasing back runner. Unfortunately not in black Next Saturday is pick-up – Dachreeling and the labeling orgy has to be removed, gypsy hook is also removed. Pictures are available so far only from the seller: