My 1,5 years old Volvo S40 did this twice, shortly after starting it and moving it for a couple of miles. It displayed the message "Brake Failure Stop Car Safely", "Antiskid system failure", "Reduced Engine Performance". The car could not go more than 15 mph. After parking it, I could not restart the engine and the messages kept repating in random order.

The first time that I took it to the dealer they said that they changed the computer message module (the mechanic carried a box with many plugs in it, just to show me what it looked like).

But after 500 miles, the problem re-appeared. Now the car is in the repair shop and they do not know how to fix it!

Current mileage is only 11.500! The car is too new to have this kind of problems!

Any ideas?

 

take that thing back to the dealer and raise hell. if the car is that new, it should be under warrenty huh?...tell them to give you a loaner and keep the car until it's fixed or your going to do whatever you can to make it known they sold you a lemon.