Category: Volvo Forum

Hey! I returned from Sweden last night with my XC70. The moose brought us good and reliable up to fast the 2500 km back and forth without mucking. The roads from highway to gravel road were really fun with the car. My wife is fully infected with the “XC virus”. When we left, we commented on every Volvo with “There’s another one!” – after that we went to mention only the XCs. Everyone, who has been to Sweden before, will understand it. Otherwise, an endless litany on “There’s one more there… etc. pp.”. tries to count every Mercedes in Germany! However, my wife didn’t quite see the photography, I’m not THE XC fan. A few snapshots are there though. But the pictures will only follow in the next few days, because my desk is simply too full… So, work calls! Greeting from Westfalen Eike

Two hours ago, the price of the litre of diesel in Cottbus jumped from 1.07 Euro to 1.15 Euro. 95% of the refinery capacities in the south of the USA are still. Shortening and plenty of Speculatius are on the market….. The cucumber used the IC to Berlin (130km) for a try yesterday. Unbeatably cheap! Our team paid 5 Euro p.P. for one day IC, RE, underground, tram Cottbus & Berlin, as well as S-Bahn. And on the way we had 90 minutes for a brainstorming on the train. ther um, it was relaxing

Hi together, as one or the other had noticed through this meeting fred, we had come together in Hanover to a Mini-GT 😉 On the way there the XC fan (I find it funny to write of me in the third person, if that bothers you – bad luck 😉 in an illegal car race! ;-)) First a V70 in a construction site (Tempo80) really zigzacked me (had also a Ferrari-elch 😉 … Then I had a Volvo 244er team overrun hard …

So sometimes you just want to shake your head. That’s where the management floors of the individual corporations are like in the sandbox. Latest example: After all the bosses of all car companies get stomach ulcers right now, when they hear the word Toyota (they are currently building very good quality and supposedly they have damn revolutionary ideas in the pipeline) the German competitors have considered how to pee a little bit on the Japanese. The study was commissioned to find out the efficiency of a Toyota diesel exhaust gas purification system. The system is currently being installed in Avensis. The result is supposed to be that the filter makes the trench after 8000km and then the car re-inserts the air again. Toyota says, of course, that the tests were carried out under irrealistic conditions. ne ne ne ne ne

Hi together, did we happen to have Volvo drivers from Styria (direction Krakow plain, Krakówdorf, Murau, Tamsweg and close by) here in the forum? Just asked about travel planning in 2005 … Tschau Torsten – the XC fan (who would like to “business” in Styria again :-))

“Swine driving” is the direct translation of “grisekjøring”, driving outside the state-determined conditions, so to speak. in the newspaper* were today the new prices for this behavior and I thought that we could compare and oracle whether they have a great influence on the driving behavior of the average automobile operator. I say already before, that for Norway I would suspect a fairly clear yes. wære interesting, the prices with the deutschspr achigen raum, czechien, france, belgien, usa and who else drives around here, compare… red light: 5200 crowns; 634 € driving in the bus&taxi field: 4200 crowns; 512 € against the one-way road: 4200 crowns; 512 € 10 km/h too fast at actually 60: 1600 crowns; 195 € 20 km/h too fast at actually 60: 4200 crowns; 512 € 10 km/h too fast at actually 70: 1600 crowns; 195 € 20 km/h too fast at actually 70: 7800 crowns; 951 € advance rule disregarded: 5200 crowns; 63 4 € flashing forgot / wrong use of light: 2000 crowns; 244 € mobile telephone without freehand: 1300 crowns; 158 € tuned moped: 4200 crowns; 512 € bicycle at red: 900 crowns; 110 € bicycle without light: 900 crowns; 110 € … I’m going to watch what’s not really true about my cycling… dear gruss oli [change course today, 1:8,20]

Everyone may judge for themselves how important or unimportant this message is, but I personally like it and maybe there are some who are doing just that. The current UN Secretary General Kofi Annan drove Volvo until a few months ago. Then BMW turned on and gave him a 7-inch limousine. A few days ago Annan is back in the Volvo, an armored S80 executive with TV system in the rear (you could become almost envious).

Hello guys, I got my S60 D5 BE MY04 on 21.1.04. Now there are 2900km on the speedometer. On the highway I also noticed a very strong roar… After I already read a thread here because of the problem, I called the friendly one…. see there.. my NEW Volvo model year 2004 has this problem as well,,, Have for Monday an appointment at which also with me the suspension from the exhaust system is changed… Then the problem should be gone.. ODELL was also confirmed by VOLVO. Because of model year 04 this has no more!!! Greetz PinocchioS60

Hello, I just got a letter from my friendly, which should remind you of the annual winter check. Furthermore, there is also the information here, that there is now to be retrofit particle filters for diesel vehicles. Quote: We can currently offer you the retrofit particle filter for the following models: S/V40 D4192T4 and T3 75kW and 85kW S40/V50 D4204T 100kW S60/V70/S80 D5244T and T2 96kW and 120kW (manual and automatic transmission) V70/S80 D5252T 103kW manual transmission XC90 D5244T 1 20kW automatic transmission The installation costs are Euro 740,00 incl. VAT. (country promotion from Euro 300,00 to 31.12.05 and any community promotion) from which company the particle filter comes is unfortunately not to be read, but will probably ask tomorrow times by phone. now my question: – is it worth the retrofitting of a particle filter ? – is the good feeling, the environment what good to do, actually worth 740,00€ ? – is there no performance losses or more consumption ? – s ind the 740,00€ well invested, as the resale may be facilitated thereby ? – has any of you planned the retrofitting in the next time ? greeting from graz Roman

******************** Ford Motor: US sales fell by 26 percent in October from source: Finanzen.net / Aktienche – The Ford Motor Co. (ISIN US3453708600/ WKN 502391) presented sales figures for the USA on Tuesday. According to this, the second largest US automobile manufacturer had to accept a sales drop by 26 percent. In total, Ford sold 199,847 vehicles in the reporting period, after 268,474 vehicles in October 2004. Ford had to make the biggest break in the Jaguar brand with a minus With the Land Rover brand, sales rose by 40.2 percent. Truck sales decreased by 31.3 percent in the reporting period, while passenger car sales decreased by only 11.1 percent. Ford Motor’s share is currently trading at NYSE at $ 8.31 (-0.12 percent). ************************ Well, this will increase the chances of a Volvo sale again. That will be hard bread in the US until Rapace gets back off their discount prices.