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  • My first moose and the initial confusion…

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  • Chip tuning – V50 D3

    Hello together I actually wanted to order a chip tuning for my V50 at Heico, but the following answer came: Quote: In the context of our cooperation with Volvo Cars Switzerland, we are only allowed to supply products that are homologated and approved in Switzerland.Unfortunately, we are not yet offering a performance program for a V50 D3/2011 in Switzerland for business reasons. HEICO SPORTIV GmbH & Co KG Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 44 D 64331 Weiterstadt Now I wonder if there are clever alternatives?

  • Help slowly I despair. My fatter stinks and smokes

    Good evening, I’m new here and a proud phaeton owner but slowly I disintegrate. To the vehicle. Phaeton Bj. 12.05, 3.0 diesel bmk engine, with 168000km. It started about 6 months ago he smoked white blue and smelled of diesel in the interior, exchanged all injectors, return line about 2 months ago. A month later Lambdasonde ban 1 and Dpf emergency regenerated because the overloaded was after it was quiet. Now he starts again, in the interior it stinks of exhaust gases when I stand at the traffic light and it smokes again. (Water loss I have no and no oil reproduction). Can someone help me further.

  • Please help with purchase of Phaeton – Solar roof issue

    Hello, I want to buy a 2009 Phaeton. I know from theseler that it is equipped with solar roof. However, I have read at the EPOC website that GP2 has the following feature: Solar sliding roof in conjunction with RNS810 ex factory without function. Does this mean that the Phaeton I want to buy can have the stand ventilation not operational? If yes, how can I check remotely with theseler when the stand ventilation works or not? Thank you in advance for your answers/comments. Arek

  • Automatic gearbox defective????ß

    Hello Ride a S80 2.9 Geartronic. The latest automatic spins. Turns off very incorrect and sometimes hangs in the 3rd stage. Then no other gear can be inserted manually. The dealer has already tried it with new software, misstatement. Change of gear oil. Also brought nothing. Errors appear again and again and additionally in the diplay “Maintenance Gearbox” is urgent. If the automatic has “hanged up” (in the 3rd course) I only have to switch off ignition and restart, then it goes again for a few minutes. The dealer was now the opinion a control part with magnetic switches?? to change about 2000€. Today he has called me, he would have found chips in the oil of the gear and would like to change the gear straight away (about 500€). But I think he just wants to change that, because he doesn’t know where the fault comes from. An automatic transmission after only 99,000 km can’t be. Car never had a trailer operation. Someone knows advice?

  • C30 with track broadening

    Hello together! I have a question. When I was at my Volvo workshop last week, the workshop master spoke to me about the wheel widths mounted on the rear axle. Of course, I noticed these already in autumn when changing the wheels, but I thought that they are standard at the C30. This also fits visually very well, because the C30 has a slightly wider butt. In addition, 16″-alus look quite good. Since the previous owner was a pensioner, I don’t think that the widenings have been mounted. I don’t have an ABE and there is nothing in appearance. What does it look like with you. Is there anyone who drives a lane spread on the rear axle. ? Mine is a 2.4i momentum. Greetings! Thomas

  • Instead of retrofitting an on-board ccmputer ….Turbo Gauge IV for OBDII including 4in1 scan car computer?

    Hello Volvo specialists, my V40 Bj98 has unfortunately no BC and no temperature indicator. After reading many articles concerning the on-board computer I prefer to leave it with the retrofitting because I do not know if the connections are available and whether the control unit has to be unlocked. It is also mainly about the consumption indicator and of course further data would be practical and interesting. Now I am on this offer: Turbo Gauge IV for OBDII incl. 4in1 Scan Auto Computerhttp://cgi.ebay.de/ws/…rack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:de Maybe someone has experience with it or is the thing nix? Thank you and best regards Norbert

  • Hupe doesn’t work -> new steering wheel is due!?

    Hello municipality, with our XC90 from 10.2007 hr for 1-2 years the right area of activity (on the airbag) very difficult. The pressure point is reached, but it does not honk. Stronger pressing (with one finger almost not possible) brings the success. (I don’t want to hear the saying now: “Then hup with the left). In danger situations it happened with already 3-4 times, that I pressed with right on the horn but the car didn’t give a tone of itself. On the left it always works, but the “Hupgund” has usually already done itself. Are there similar experiences here? So far for more than 200,- € unsuccessful works were carried out. I rejected the steering wheel – exchange for 700,- € thanking. Will the 200,- well have to pay, but here I hope to find THE SOLUTION 😉 Greeting Manuel

  • Change diesel particulate filters after 120,000 km?!?

    Moin, if it goes to Volvo, then with my V50 2.0 d in 12,000 Km the change of the diesel particle filter is on – with the associated costs (but this should not be the topic…) I drive with my Volvo 35,000 Km per year – a lot of country road and also sometimes highway. Volvo stumply prescribes the change after 120,000 Km, without asking about the driving profile or the age of the car….. With a car with a mileage of 120,000 Km, a change is certainly less commercial than technical thing, but what is at 240,000 or even 360,000 Km, if the cost of the change reaches or even exceeds the time value? Does one then have an economic total damage? Or does the thing fly out and the Volvo leaves us to Africa??? So, is there any experience values concerning the overlay of the change interval? Does it run better – someone could experience a difference between old and new filter? (My given 210Km/h does not reach – would it run “free” after the change?) For corresponding experiences I am grateful….

  • Tyres/wheels for the V50

    Hello, I’m new here, but I’ve been reading silently for quite a while. Last year I bought my first used elk (V50, 1.6 D) and I’m actually quite satisfied. Only with the current tire, which of course is not due to the speed. Had the series tire on it on steel rim and would now like to change to something chiceres. Imagine me in any case 17 inches, like with 205 or 215 tires. Would like to use the wide selection of non-original rims (come on cheaply) and have no idea what is possible there. Read everywhere that you have to build bricks or car parts. Actually, I am the classic series vehicle driver and have never bothered with anything like that. What can you recommend there? Have looked around me at Dezent and Brock and I like this one or other (Dezent: V, N, Brock: B 21, B 24), but that never fits 100% to the EEC regulations.