Hi,
I am new to the forum and hope my question is not too "simple" to here. On The other hand dealers here in Hungary tell me sometimes junk and i want to check them. Above all our volvo is staying at the service now for 4 (!) weeks... Here is the story:
This is a v70 from 2000 with about 280 000 km. I drove home when the computer showed: service immediately drive slowly or something like that. So i drove another 100 km. After arriving home right at the entrance some smoke appeared from the boonet. The second belt was melted and thorn, the clima pump stopped. I thought this was the reason for the computer message, though i have to mention all the way there was no sign of miissing belt (generator charge, servo steering seemed to be OK). At the service they said the message was for some gas pedal sensor problem and truely after receiving the message the car stopped accelerating properly, it needed a few second after pressing the throttle pedal. So i was told to buy a new pedal, so i did. The problem was not solved. I was told a special computer is needed to "teach" the pedal sensor. Of course such a software was not available in that garage...Can that be? Any comment?
thanks for any input
Szabolcs

 

The throttle body might be bad.

 

thanks for the input
i forget to mention the car is a turbo diesel one (2,5). now we got it back and the problem is still there: after pressing the gas pedal it needs a few moments to accelerate and when i take my leg away from it the rpm falls quite slow.

 

I cannot be much more of a help on that one sorry.
We do not get diesel's here in the U.S.

But I would look at a throttle body issue or a computer issue.

 

thanks anyway. I do really forget that diesel cars are not that common in the US.
yours
szabolcs