Hello all. I have a 00 s40 Phase 1 1.9T. The weather lately killed my 8 year old battery. I installed a brand new one today and now it will not turn over. What are some things I need to be looking at? My first crank fired and then died and haven't got it to sputter since. Fuel delivery froze up?

 

Does the car have coolant in it? Or all water?

If it's not cranking, you likely have a battery connection problem.

 

 

with the headlights on turn the key to start, do the head lights dim at all? You may not be energizing the crank relay, is the car in park with your foot on the brake? Neutral start switch. Do you hear the starter trying to engage (lights should dim)? Possible starter issue.

 

The headlights to turn on, and all the lights go out when I'm trying to start it. I always start with the foot on the brake due to habit with driving stick.

 

Thank you for the informative video. I have a 50/50 ratio of water to coolant. I checked for leaks around all of my hoses and found nothing. It's strange because she was running fine yesterday. It is cranking but not firing. I know I have good air flow, spark plugs, and compression because I serviced the car last week when I heard we were going to be having bad weather (for North GA anyway). I didn't know that the fuel rail had a bleeder valve at the end so I'll try that and see. Worst comes to worse I'll have the battery tested or send it to the Volvo dealer. I read on a different forum that the immobilizer may have been activated because the battery was out for roughly 45 minutes to an hour. Honestly not sure until the morning.

 

Alright. So today I double checked my work from my servicing to make sure that the coolant hadn't frozen, the spark plugs still get some juice, the air filter being clean, and the compression levels. I checked the bleed valve on the fuel rail next to the injectors and it is getting fuel. I about killed my new battery so I hooked it up to an 12 volt/ 10 amp hour charger. Once it said it was charged I hooked everything back together and tried one last time. SHE FIRED!! But here is the bad news. She shut off and will not come back. When the key turned, everything was normal for 2 seconds. Then it just quit. I'm still open to suggestions for how to get her running again. Thank you.

 

Any codes? It's tough if the battery died.

 

The battery isn't dead and there aren't any codes.

 

You need to put a fuel pressure tester on it. You could have enough flow to get fuel out of the shrader valve but not enough pressure to run the car. Key ON you need 60 psi and when you turn the key OFF the pressure should stay near 60 psi and not bleed off immediately.

 

I would like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to the pool of thought. I did a pressure test and pulled 10psi. I assumed that meant that the fuel pump wasn't working properly. I replaced that and everything is smooth sailing. Once again, thank you.