Goodbye to Volvo :-) :-(
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Goodbye to Volvo :-) :-(
Well it is with bittersweet emotions I am saying good bye to my 2002 S60.
I bought the car 5 years ago with 30K and it was a great car for about 3 years, and when it hit 100K starting falling apart and had problem after problem. Lots of annoying little things like interior parts breaking (I gave up replacing the cup holders), trim peeling, trunk struts failing, etc.
But it was the mechanical issues that finally got to me. It just seems that for the past 2 years there has always been something wrong with the car; alternator, idler tensioner, motor mounts, brake booster, struts, MAF sensor, A/C pressure sensor, and more. My check engine light has been on for over a year, as soon as something gets fixed it would go on withing a couple of week for something else. The car has been running poorly due to the brake booster slowly going and creating a vacuum leak, and now I was told the ECM is bad even though it was replaced under recall once. The final straw was due to the tranny shifting poorly when in stop and go traffic (which I am in a lot), I did a full flush a while back and that seemed to help but not totally, and I am told the tranny will need to be replaced.
I brought the car to a mechanic last week to get an idea of what it would take to get it to the point of keeping it another year or two, the mechanic told me flat out after looking at it to not bother, get rid of it, he didn't want to take my money.
So yesterday I traded it in for a 2011 Mazda CX-7, quite a change, but my last car was a Mazda 626 I drove to 270K miles and it ran better than my Volvo with 128K!
I just can't understand is how a car can be built so poorly, a car should last more then 10 years/100K miles. I guess the bottom line is Volvo caters to customers who buy new and trade in for another one after 4 year warranty period and don't care if their cars last any longer.
Anyway, thanks everyone for all your help over the years!
Mark.
I bought the car 5 years ago with 30K and it was a great car for about 3 years, and when it hit 100K starting falling apart and had problem after problem. Lots of annoying little things like interior parts breaking (I gave up replacing the cup holders), trim peeling, trunk struts failing, etc.
But it was the mechanical issues that finally got to me. It just seems that for the past 2 years there has always been something wrong with the car; alternator, idler tensioner, motor mounts, brake booster, struts, MAF sensor, A/C pressure sensor, and more. My check engine light has been on for over a year, as soon as something gets fixed it would go on withing a couple of week for something else. The car has been running poorly due to the brake booster slowly going and creating a vacuum leak, and now I was told the ECM is bad even though it was replaced under recall once. The final straw was due to the tranny shifting poorly when in stop and go traffic (which I am in a lot), I did a full flush a while back and that seemed to help but not totally, and I am told the tranny will need to be replaced.
I brought the car to a mechanic last week to get an idea of what it would take to get it to the point of keeping it another year or two, the mechanic told me flat out after looking at it to not bother, get rid of it, he didn't want to take my money.
So yesterday I traded it in for a 2011 Mazda CX-7, quite a change, but my last car was a Mazda 626 I drove to 270K miles and it ran better than my Volvo with 128K!
I just can't understand is how a car can be built so poorly, a car should last more then 10 years/100K miles. I guess the bottom line is Volvo caters to customers who buy new and trade in for another one after 4 year warranty period and don't care if their cars last any longer.
Anyway, thanks everyone for all your help over the years!
Mark.
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You're not alone
That yr. model was beseiged w/ tranny and ETM issues. Suspension and steering components on the P2s are weak - poorly designed- would go bad even b4 reaching 100k miles. And their electronics - yuk, there's always something going bad. BUT they're fun to drive esp. the T5s. Volvos are not for those w/ limited resources cuz there's always something to fix/replace. They're not for people w/ a faint of heart but for those who love to overcome challenges.
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