I fell in love with this car when I first saw it. It has been a love-rate relationship ever since. For the past year I have been having problems, upshift arrow (blinking) and check engine light come on. The diagnosed bad throttle position sensor. It has been replaced 3 or 4 times. This problem seems to be more of a warm weahter problem. Not bothered by it much through our past winter here in Iowa. When the warning lights come on, it surges or cuts-out. Not exactly reliable when I need the burst of speed to get onto the highway. Sometimes it will not down shift when you give it gas, other times it will not upshift until about 4000-4500 rpms. At stops it idles rough, a majority of the time (not always). It I shift to neutral it idles fine. To add insult to injury, I also get the brake and ABS light coming on, but not as frequent as the other two. Thanks for your help, Eric:eek:

What codes did they pull?
Sounds like you might have a bad PNP switch (Park Nuetral Position)

For the ABS sounds like a bad ABS module.You can have it rebuilt by following the link.
http://home.earthlink.net/~vicrocha/Volvo_Parts/Volvo_V70_ABS.htm

My service garage sent my car to the Volvo dealer up the road. It turns out the connection to the throttle position sensor had a bent pin and the catch was not locking down. They repaired/replaced the connector and the car has been running great ever since. No errors have come up since. Eric

Gald it is running good again!!!