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Moin! This morning I went to work when I heard a sound. It sounded like something was loosening up and falling down. I thought because of the season and the acorn trees planted in Hamburg (meaningfully on the road) to a fallen acorn or leaf with those that previously roamed the car or something… Well, long speech in short sense, I had found nothing when getting out, but when getting in… There was this rubber band (photo) in the passenger footroom… I have no idea where this could come from… Are such rubbers “built up” in the Volvo and if for what? It is about 22cm long (torn) and 0.7cm wide.

If something goes wrong, then right … I’ve been driving my V60 for a week. Yesterday shortly after 16.00 at KM-Stand 568 on the way into the extended weekend the tyre pressure control registers … I look in the sensus to the right too little. So on the next occasion to the right drive and look. Almost PLATT. Somewhere on the A6 a broken key drilled almost in the middle into the tread. Sh… No chance for tire pilot. It turns out, after 16.00 o’clock obviously no tire service is open anymore – because Saturday. (Tire emergency service there ́s apparently only for trucks ́s – despite intensive search on the internet found nothing for cars) Now it comes to a conclusion that I bought the car without an emergency wheel and am also not a member of an automobile club. Had calculated that the risk “overlookable” is to remain with a tire panel. Practically all other defects would fall under the guarantee … I have only been lying with damaged tires for the last 20 years, but at that time, too much more than 50 years ago.

Hi, downloaded albums that I buy from Amazon cannot be played in my V60. It’s always only “track not readable”. – If I load the files to a separate USB in which only Amazon albums are, it says from the beginning “no and not. Files” It’s MP3. – So it shouldn’t be a problem. – With other MP3 there are no problems – but vice versa I have no problems with the Amazon MP3 on other devices (MP3 player, PC, TV). Do you have that too? – Amazon tells me, some manufacturers are not compatible with the Amazon MP3 – on request what is different to the Amazon MP3, they told me that Amazon uses a partly rigid and partly variable bit rate of an average of 256 kb and thus apparently have some problems or adjustments to be made. But now I don’t know what you could do differently… Therefore all the albums that Amazon downloaded have: can you tell me something about your experiences?

In the meantime, I had found a great V7 3.2, all as far as possible, but I wanted to expand the search before a final decision. In the autumn, directly on my wife’s daily journey, an LPG filling station opened, so that LPG moves into the focus. So part of our search is the search for a gasoline engine and the conversion to LPG (Eric E had his conversion experience posted, thank you for it). Well, a diesel is not going to be outside, but is increasingly coming to the rear. Finally, I realize that all statements about the conversion V70 also apply to the S80 (must), the difference lies in the tank, right?? To the profile: my wife drives rather quietly “cruiser mode”. From the pure performance would (almost) the 1.6D reach, but still a prerequisite is the automatic again. Currently, she has one and I am not sure if she wants to/will give up on it. Just she called, before the school of our son she did not get rid of herself with the BW. But it is not a good thing to do.