Hi all, just thought I'd share this with you all. I have found a website here in Europe (Germany) that makes and supplies a repair kit for the retractable load cover. These have a nasty habit of shearing off the plastic tubes from the end caps These guys make a great kit that is fairly easy to fit to make a load cover do another 15 years at least Mind you I didn't buy one, I just downloaded the installation PDF and being a skilled Engineer, made exact copies of the parts needed on a lathe, Bandsaw, linisher, and a turret mill at work from offcuts.....so cost me nothing!!!! Will update this post with photo's of my parts before I fix back together. But the website for the kit (if you can't make your own) is: SKANDIX Shop Volvo parts: Repair kit, Load cover (1026691)
Hope this helps others with a non working load cover!!!
Clive