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  • Purchase advice XC 60

    Hello together, I’m going to report for the first time and hope that I’m right here. After I’m a VW fan, I really like the XC 60 so much that I’m seriously thinking about changing the “storage”. I’m interested in the D 4 8-Gang Geartronic with 190 hp in the version Summun or Ocean Race. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to drive a D 4 with this motorization yet and therefore hope that I get a recommendation here. I’m interested in the “classic” Onyx Black-Metalic or, if necessary, Bright Silver-Metallic. As far as the tyres are concerned, I’m not sure about the tyres, because I don’t really like the 8 x 18″ rims delivered as standard on the one hand, but the 8 x 20″ rims are likely to affect driving comfort. I’d be grateful if someone could help me or share his experiences.

  • V60 needs new wheels, 18 inches with all-year tire

    Hello together, due to very good experiences with other cars I would like to change my V60 from summer + winter bikes to all-year tires. The look because of 18 inch rims, preferably the Volvo Magni in 8×18. As tires I chose the Vredestein Quatrac 5. The tires are available in 225/40 R18 92Y XL and 235/40 R18 95Y XL. As axle loads I have 1200 and 1050 kg in the vehicle license. With the Magni rims there is a recommendation 235/40, but then I need these steering limiters (I haven’t yet). Can I drive the Magni also with the 225/40s and then do without the steering limiters? Are the 92Y of the 225s enough? Currently 95W are in the vehicle license… What do the steering limiters cost with the V60 with standard drive unit including installation? I look forward to your feedback!

  • Engine does not start – prevent – try again!

    Hello – I’m new here and have a problem with the XC 90 engine does not start- Message in AI: Start prevents- try again! Previously made: – 2. Message – Battery -Low voltage- Battery measured- 12,5V, radio and fan without function- Battery nevertheless renewed and charged- Error away, radio and fan again iO, – Antenna ring for ignition lock used procured and built-in- motor does not start- Error : Start prevents- try again remains, start relays removed and snapped- Starter rotates perfectly, – Error read out with Esitronic and deleted- Only error transponder signal/transponder does not remain detected, – second key – same diagnosis, question : – must the antenna ring at Volvo with the keys be learned? – Where are the ground points at the back and at the front? – Who has further ideas for troubleshooting? Thank you in advance!

  • Very loud motor noise since today

    Servus. My xc kills my mind. Call my wife, the car is so loud, she doesn’t listen to the music anymore. I said, see if the oil stand fits and come home. Joar. Oil stand fits. I immediately said the exhaust is broken from the noise. Well, the noise is in front of the engine and not behind the engine! But it doesn’t sound like a grinding bearing. Turbo works with the gas. I have already found some entries because of hydropulse. Only if they can produce such a noise?? Could that come from the camshafts? The last engine died because of the broken camshaft bridges… What do you think? Achja, 2.4 l D5 motor with 120kw 163ps Andi

  • Beginner’s car

    Hi, I’d like to know which car you should buy if you drive (back and forth) between 60 and 100km (weekdays) to reach school, don’t want to spend a lot of money on taxes and consumption, just as you don’t want to buy repairs and that brings you safely and reliably from A to B, it doesn’t have to contain luxury, radio but already and it shouldn’t be a common car, maybe an exotic. Have cars hardly know, hope you can help me, have heard Korean cars are cheap and robust. P.S. Do you know if there are also websites for right-handers? Thank you, Mfg MrMcLeod

  • Type of transmission

    sers@all! I hope I can ask the question here without getting bugged, because I don’t find a general subforum for the topic. My question: Is there any vehicle whose gearbox consists of planetary drives, which are sequentially switched on by the driver? I mean no automatic circuits, but which one at least switches the movements by hand (can also be semi-automatic, i.e. autom. clutch)? have only found page-wise dsg-circuit discussions so far but not about something like that.

  • Order WOMO as a van, reach the load limit?

    Hello together, we family 2 adults with 2 children eight and ten years would like to order us a box van with set-up roof. With awning and some small extras we are already at almost 3270 Kg. So we still have 230 kilos of extra charge the people are not even included there. minus the co-travellers we would still have an extra charge of about 100kg for bed linen and food. Is that enough or how do you do that? We have decided a 6,36 m with long beds and set-up roof, because we do not want to do without the sleeping comfort. Then rather save at another point… Load up or a camper we do not want to take advantage of because we want to use the advantages of a box van. In particular we are more for short trips like e.g. city trips… I think that in general with box vans the extra charge especially as a family with children shows itself rather as very difficult. How solves this problem? Or is this generally so and one takes the risk to drive something overloaded? I am very grateful for every advice. Lg.

  • Beginner’s questions Caravans

    Servus together, Since I’ve been together with my wife, we have the tradition of going camping once a year. Until now, camping has meant. Now, however, child No. 2 is on the road, we don’t get younger and a small need for convenience is growing. Tents are still great – but we just want a little bit more independence from the weather. (The last two tent adventures were rather humid. And in the tent it was very fast, very tight and the possibilities to deal with us were quickly exhausted.) Now we want to get ourselves a caravan. He should have space for 4 people (2 big, 2 small) and the extra charge should be reasonably good. Shower, toilet, etc would be ok, but are not necessary because we usually use the facilities on camping places. But the offer of used ones (especially the brands) in all price classes does not overwhelm us very little. We need a small push in the right direction. I know that the questions are extremely general – however, it is very difficult to formulate questions, because I don’t want to know anything about it, but I don’t want to learn a lot about it.

  • Problems with Navi – Volvo C70 I RTI

    Hello together, short question about the operation of the original Volvo-Navis. From Volvo I got a CD set with I believe 19 CD’s for all of Europe. At the weekend I had the problem that the starting point was on a CD (Germany Northwest) and the destination location on the next CD (Germany West). If I insert the CD with the starting point, I can enter no destination address (at least no road). If I insert the CD with the destination location, I can enter the exact address, but he (the Navi…- we call it Johann) doesn’t know how to get there anymore. Do I really have to search for intermediate destinations every time my route goes over several CD’s and reprogram each time?? The Volvo operating manual doesn’t really give much to me… Can anyone help me? Best thanks and greeting, Eric

  • The rotary piston engine

    The Wankel motor (circular piston engine) as a motor of the future!? Discussions about a new hydrogen combustion technology in connection with the Wankel motor have been going on for some time now. In earlier times, the Wankel motor mainly failed due to the high fuel consumption. A gasoline-powered Wankel motor is still being used in a Mazda sports car today! It is a heated discussion about the combustion process in progress. There is, for example, a proposal from Siemens to clean the exhaust gases in a plasma. This sounds already very technical, however, otherwise it can not be illustrated. To the plasma proposal: If one considers the processes that run in the plasma state of fuel media more closely, then if the plasma process is designed accordingly, a high-quality fuel gas can be produced from the various fuels and water pistons! That was now from a technical book. Siemens has proposed an electric heating of the plasma. Unfortunately, all the proposals are still connected to a high energy consumption and not exactly environmentally friendly. Since hydrogen can be directly burned in the Wankel engine – circular piston engine, it is a variant of the future gym gym.