99 S70 Starting Problems
 

99 S70 Non-turbo--142K miles. We are original owners and have had intermittent problems since we bought the car. The car will not start. I have had it into the Volvo dealer a number of times (the first was at 27K miles) as well as other foreign car care places. It was finally diagnosed a couple of years ago as a problem with the ECM/ETS. The shop said I had to take it to the dealer to have it replaced, but cleaned the throttle and it seemed to help. When the 10year/200K mile warrnty extension came out, I took it back to the dealer. They claimed to have upgraded some software, but refused to do anything with the ETS/ECM because there were no codes. If I wanted additional diagnostics to determine if the ETS/ECM was bad, I would have to pay for them. Another mechanic changed the fuel filter, which seemed to help for a while, but now the car will not start again. I use premium gas. Is there anyway I can get the dealer to be more responsive??

RE: 99 S70 Starting Problems
 

When you say it won't start does it just crank over like it is dead?
Does it start and stall?

You would have to have a good scanner or Good program on a laptop to help figure it out now.

Do you have a different key you can use to try to start it?

I think you might have something with the immoblizer not allowing it to start.