I have a 2013 Volvo S60 T5 2.5L AWD that died on the side of the road. Long story short, garage said they called Volvo and they no longer produce the engine or parts for it. I tried looking for a used head unit but they are hard to find and to tell the truth, I don't think I'm mechanically inclined to take on such a big job. I just got the car last September and I still owe on it. It has 57k miles on it. I was looking for advice for how much to sell it for. I know right now, it's just a very expensive paperweight. My other thinking was to parts it out and maybe I could recoup some money to pay off the loan. I figured, headlights, tail lights, starter...etc. What would be the hot items that I could remove from the car to sell. Of course, if anyone would like to buy the car, shoot me an offer. It is in excellent condition, it still looks new. It's a shame it's heart has been ripped out. I loved that car.

Thanks!

 

Whoever said parts aren't available is making that up...

 

Do you know a site that sells used or remanfactured heads? If so, please post a link. Thank you.

 

Well new parts are available. I did a head for this problem not too long ago.

For used parts, try erievovo.com or car-part.com

 

What's wrong with the engine? timing belt came off? Rod through side of block?

 

just died on side of road. Had car towed to garage and they pulled a plug and looked inside the head. Said valves were bent. Also said timing was off 25 degrees

 

these cars are "interference" engines meaning the pistons and valves overlap - when the timing belt failed the pistons will hit the exhaust valves. So you need to rebuild or replace the head. As noted, check out car-part.com to see what a used head will cost. If you can do the work great, if not have a shop estimate hours to replace the head. (my guess is its in the 10-12 hours = $1500 in shop labor) Add that to the cost of a replacement head of say $750 and related gaskets and supplies for another $250 you're looking at 2500 USD. next go to KBB.COM to find the private party sale value of your car and subtract the repair cost to estimate a sale price. Considering its a 2013, if you are a buy and hold type of owner, there's no reason you can't expect another 10 years of service after the repair. The lesson learned here is if you buy a used car via a loan, its worth considering an extended warranty.

 

Time for a Valve job and new timing belt/tensioner/idler/etc. Have done many, a few had low miles like yours

Sorry for your loss.

 

thank you. I was surprised the belt died with such low miles.

 

You sure the drive belt didn't shred and get caught in the timing? That's usually the cause.

 

That's what I'm hearing. I'm digging into the car this weekend.

 

I never heard of an intereference until this car but I guess the design is more prevalent now with other car manufacturers. I hear ya about extended warranties.. I have purchased a lot of those costing thousands of dollars and never used one once. Talking to my car buddy, we are going to attempt to revive the old girl. She's to beautiful to let her sit in the driveway without trying to fix her up.

 

Make sure you replace the drive belt tensioner as well then.

 

Designing an engine with a cockamamie rubber band to drive the cams should be considered engineering malpractice. 70 years ago Jaguars would routinely lose their timing chain tensioners - lot of noise but no serious damage.

BTW, I have owned 5 Volvos - 2 of the 5 suffered engine problems - '76 265 camshaft issues @ 47K miles and '03 V70 - lost a cylinder @ 102K mies. Current '15 V60 under the "oil ring cloud @ 55K miles" - 2 (3?) out of 5! Volvo engines are borderline junk.

 

I replaced many 260 camshafts back then - prescribed method was to drill holes in the firewall to be able to get them out of the back of the head without head removal - then fill the holes with a Volvo part number rubber plug! Made a lot on those cars!

Funny the Peugeot 604 used the same engine - and did not seem to have the same camshaft/rocker problems.

 

it's one of the items on the list.

 

It's not as if Volvo didn't know the proper way to do things - the '08 V70 had an I6 with chain driven cams - but then, of course, the dealers don't get the $$$ for the 80-100,000 mile belt/tensioner/water pump replacement.

 

Sure, no timing belt replacement. But I've made plenty of money resealing vacuum pumps, replacing one way clutch pulleys, tightening alternator drive pulleys that loosened, replacing blown up idlers on those engines. Didn't have those problems with the 5 cylinders...

You wouldn't be singing the SI6's praises if you had a failed READ unit either.

 

Neither praise nor approbation - didn't own it long enough to see other problems - just an example of a better path

 

Not sure if I totally agree that a timing chain is always a better solution than a timing belt - timing chains require lubrication which means they need to be internal to the water pump which complicates the design and build costs and changes the overall engine packaging size. Chains are also heavier and noisier than timing belts. Having to replace the belt/idler/tensioner once every 10 years is not a huge investment IHMO - figure $75 a year in service cost. Timing chains do wear out on occasion so there's no guarantee that you get a service free life either particularly if the car wasn't serviced regularly. With that noted, Toyota also used timing belts in the early 2000s and as their engines evolved, they moved most to timing chains by 2010 and Volvo is doing the same starting with the modular 6s and 8s - not sure about the newest t4 and t5s - so its a matter of reading up on your model year and engine type. FYI, here's a handy link to book mark:

https://www.volvotechinfo.com/index....ltInterval.pdf