Official Volvo Automotive Tip of The Day
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Here is another one: be sure to check your tire pressure after taking delivery of your Volvo. They are shipped overseas with about 45 PSI, and the dealerships have been neglecting to reset them to 35 PSI or so... You pay nearly $50K for a vehicle and the pre-delivery gets rushed or skipped... Love the XC60 but that is really crazy.
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LOL, nice...
Here is another one: be sure to check your tire pressure after taking delivery of your Volvo. They are shipped overseas with about 45 PSI, and the dealerships have been neglecting to reset them to 35 PSI or so... You pay nearly $50K for a vehicle and the pre-delivery gets rushed or skipped... Love the XC60 but that is really crazy.
Here is another one: be sure to check your tire pressure after taking delivery of your Volvo. They are shipped overseas with about 45 PSI, and the dealerships have been neglecting to reset them to 35 PSI or so... You pay nearly $50K for a vehicle and the pre-delivery gets rushed or skipped... Love the XC60 but that is really crazy.
While setting the tire pressure to the correct amount is part of the pre-delivery inspection the tech does, most dealerships have the techs leave the higher pressure in the tires because they do not know how long the car will sit. The sales person should adjust the pressure prior to sale.
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The pre-delivery does not get skipped. If it was skipped, you would know it.
While setting the tire pressure to the correct amount is part of the pre-delivery inspection the tech does, most dealerships have the techs leave the higher pressure in the tires because they do not know how long the car will sit. The sales person should adjust the pressure prior to sale.
While setting the tire pressure to the correct amount is part of the pre-delivery inspection the tech does, most dealerships have the techs leave the higher pressure in the tires because they do not know how long the car will sit. The sales person should adjust the pressure prior to sale.
Love the XC totally, but that really made me suspicious. What else was skipped?
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Joshinator99 no offense but you obviously don't know what you are talking about. If they did a dealer trade, then the service department you got the car from did not do the PDI the one they got it from did. The vehicle has a restricted vehicle speed before the PDI is done and the rotor covers need to be removed if they would drive it an hour and a half to another dealer. Do you really think a tech is really going to do pretty much half of the PDI and not get paid for it? No. Est6 and I are dealership techs so we know what goes on because we are the ones doing the PDIs on these cars. Like he said, we don't know how long the vehicle sits unsold on the lot so most of us just leave the pressure alone since we don't want the car coming back with a low tire pressure light and a pissed off customer.
In order to be suspicious you would actually have to know what happens with a PDI. Other than the tire pressure we top off the washer fluid(you would've have a message come back on by now if it wasn't done), take the car out of transport mode (once again restricted vehicle speed), and software download (you would've had electrical problems by now). Those are pretty much the main things in a PDI so like it was stated before if it wasn't done you would've known by now.
In order to be suspicious you would actually have to know what happens with a PDI. Other than the tire pressure we top off the washer fluid(you would've have a message come back on by now if it wasn't done), take the car out of transport mode (once again restricted vehicle speed), and software download (you would've had electrical problems by now). Those are pretty much the main things in a PDI so like it was stated before if it wasn't done you would've known by now.
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Joshinator99 no offense but you obviously don't know what you are talking about. If they did a dealer trade, then the service department you got the car from did not do the PDI the one they got it from did. The vehicle has a restricted vehicle speed before the PDI is done and the rotor covers need to be removed if they would drive it an hour and a half to another dealer. Do you really think a tech is really going to do pretty much half of the PDI and not get paid for it? No. Est6 and I are dealership techs so we know what goes on because we are the ones doing the PDIs on these cars. Like he said, we don't know how long the vehicle sits unsold on the lot so most of us just leave the pressure alone since we don't want the car coming back with a low tire pressure light and a pissed off customer.
In order to be suspicious you would actually have to know what happens with a PDI. Other than the tire pressure we top off the washer fluid(you would've have a message come back on by now if it wasn't done), take the car out of transport mode (once again restricted vehicle speed), and software download (you would've had electrical problems by now). Those are pretty much the main things in a PDI so like it was stated before if it wasn't done you would've known by now.
In order to be suspicious you would actually have to know what happens with a PDI. Other than the tire pressure we top off the washer fluid(you would've have a message come back on by now if it wasn't done), take the car out of transport mode (once again restricted vehicle speed), and software download (you would've had electrical problems by now). Those are pretty much the main things in a PDI so like it was stated before if it wasn't done you would've known by now.
Regardless of the excuses being passed around, my "tip" of the day is true: check your tire pressures because they are likely not set correctly by the dealership. And its not just me saying it based on the other message boards out there.
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Were you there when the techs were "working" on it? Like I said it sounds like the other dealer has to have done the PDI not the one you got the car from. I see dealer trades happen all of the time and when they get to our dealership they don't go to the techs, they go to the detail department. This isn't about "protecting our own" I can tell the names of dealerships that you might want to stay away from because the techs there don't know what they are doing. I've had cars come in with 70+ psi in the tires and I've never seen over inflation wear. Put your tires at 45 psi and drive around and I can tell you this, your rear tires will cup before you notice abnormal wear from the over inflation. So that's not wear you should worried about. You keep bringing up the Ford explorers and that's ok but you're driving a Volvo. So to try to eliminate the thought of rolling over I'll use a bigger car, the XC90. I have purposely tried to roll a XC90 and it is dam near impossible. And yes I understand you're driving a SUV so the thought of rolling over is always going to be in your head but it is harder to roll a Volvo than a ford.
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Were you there when the techs were "working" on it? Like I said it sounds like the other dealer has to have done the PDI not the one you got the car from. I see dealer trades happen all of the time and when they get to our dealership they don't go to the techs, they go to the detail department. This isn't about "protecting our own" I can tell the names of dealerships that you might want to stay away from because the techs there don't know what they are doing. I've had cars come in with 70+ psi in the tires and I've never seen over inflation wear. Put your tires at 45 psi and drive around and I can tell you this, your rear tires will cup before you notice abnormal wear from the over inflation. So that's not wear you should worried about. You keep bringing up the Ford explorers and that's ok but you're driving a Volvo. So to try to eliminate the thought of rolling over I'll use a bigger car, the XC90. I have purposely tried to roll a XC90 and it is dam near impossible. And yes I understand you're driving a SUV so the thought of rolling over is always going to be in your head but it is harder to roll a Volvo than a ford.
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LOL, nice...
Here is another one: be sure to check your tire pressure after taking delivery of your Volvo. They are shipped overseas with about 45 PSI, and the dealerships have been neglecting to reset them to 35 PSI or so... You pay nearly $50K for a vehicle and the pre-delivery gets rushed or skipped... Love the XC60 but that is really crazy.
Here is another one: be sure to check your tire pressure after taking delivery of your Volvo. They are shipped overseas with about 45 PSI, and the dealerships have been neglecting to reset them to 35 PSI or so... You pay nearly $50K for a vehicle and the pre-delivery gets rushed or skipped... Love the XC60 but that is really crazy.
Tyre Size Front Tyres 225/50R17 V 94 2.7 BAR / 40 PSI
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It also sounds like you are saying that setting the tire pressure is NOT part of the PDI... Whether it is part of the PDI or not, it should be correct before delivery of a brand new car. Period.
Don't recall ONE post in this thread accusing anyone of being a "lazy idiot"...
Last edited by Joshinator99; 09-10-2014 at 09:57 PM.
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