I'm looking at V70 T5 to buy. It has 98K miles with dealer service. Any advice on 2001 V70 T5? I own 95 854T and still going strong and loving it. I heard som bad thing about some throttle control probles on 2001 V70s. Any pros and cons?
Thanks

 

Ask if the ETM has been replaced yet in the car and the updated software been applied to it. If not, you will probably be doing it soon.

Look for timing belt possibly if it has been replaced with new.

 

Just bought one a month ago...but mine has 41K on it. Had minor problems but overall it's been a good car. Took it to the dealer and got all current software upgrades (including throttle body) which helped low speed performance. The ride is average around town but much better on the highway at higher speeds, seems like a good travel car.

Right after I got it I had some issues that the dealer fixed for free (would have cost me $1,000), so if your not buying it from a dealer I would have it looked over REALLY good before I bought it.

The only thing that surprised me about the car was the performance (low speed), I thought it was going to be faster (I'm looking into getting a ECU upgrade already), it's not slow by any means it just has a lot of turbo lag and you really can't feel the boost unless you stomp on it (at least my car).

Overall it's a good car that's not only functional, but sporty! I test drove a non-turbo V70 before I bought the T5 and I would not have been happy without the turbo! BIG difference!

 

So tells us the rest of the story. Did you buy one? Like it? I'm looking at the same year.

 

All the auto T5s had sluggish low RPM performance because the good part of the torque curve is higher up (>=2400 RPM) and original transmission shift profile had very low RPM shift points.

This said, the latest transmission software upgrade (available starting in 04 sometime) makes the auto T5 a whole different car. I mine updated and the car drives better than it ever has. It is now a joy to drive it in auto mode.

The main expensive + frustrating things to watch out for are

- infamous ETM. While dealer replaces for free, the gradually degrading performance prior to failure is frustration. I think I had like 10k miles worth of periodic sluggish performance before locking in a failure code.

- auto tranny seems to have early failures in some cars. Pay attention to the 2-3 shift flare using geartronic manual mode. I had slight flare but the new tranny software shift profile pretty much eliminated this in auto mode.

- brake booster goes on these cars and is like $700+. Not sure if > 01s are any better.

You can check the webpage in my signature for my ownership experience.