hey guys,

i've been looking for one of these for a while. i grabbed this one today up in niagra falls, NY. it definitely needs some love.

it's a 2000 V70XC, 120k miles
leather interior (front seats are pretty cracked, drivers seat won't slide)
Cd
auto climate
sunroof



towed it home so i didn't have to deal with transfer tags to PA.

it needs 4 tires (no big deal, 50 each), and it needs the front upper motor mount (motor strut mount or whatever it's called) for 30 bucks, also no big deal.

it kinda "floats" up front. I need to get it up on the rack and see what needs done. hopefully it's just a TRE or ball joint or something and not the whole rack. or it could just need a strut. I'll get it up on the rack and figure it out. it feels like it needs something like a TRE or sway bar link.

also the drivers seat leather is pretty cracked up and its off the tracks (won't slide back and forth)

Also has a scratch/dent in the drivers door (not horrible, but it's there)

also the ABS/traction control light is on. it probably needs an ABS speed sensor. I'll hook up the OBDII reader and see if it throws a code.

everything else seems to work fine. all the lights work, all the wipers including the headlight wipers work.

anyway, did i do ok? there's very little (if any) rust on the body, the rear seat is perfect. the interior's pretty clean.

also any suggestions on the small stuff that's wrong with it?

Thanks!

 

hmmmm, starting to think i didn't do so well lol. i got it home and started tearing into it. Right now it looks like it needs:

Tires - 250.00
upper engine strut mount - 40.00
VSS - 93.00

and i still need to figure out 2 codes:

P1633 Ignition Supplement Power Circuit Low Voltage
P0650 Malfunction Indicator Lamp (MIL) Control Circuit Malfunction
the MIL code sounds like it could be a bad bulb in the cluster. the the ignition supplement power low voltage code i have NO idea on...

 

ok, i'm going to have the ABS module rebuilt for 55 bucks and replace the engine mount and go from there.

maybe it won't be too bad

 

1999 V70 XC AWD turbo 2.4 similar problem... easy fix...
Feb 01 Fixed ... did it myself... The link is below for the abs control fix. A bit of a pain to open up, took about 30 min to pull the box and open it up. Sure enough the board had a broken solder contact on one of the pins in the circuit board. Just added some solder... heated and added solder to all the pins going to the multi-plug... and sealed the box with silicone... installed it and bingo... I am a happy camper. All in all the fix took about 2 hours with 1.5 hours letting the sealant cure. This abs glitch is reallllly common from what all the tech's and threads talk about. I am hear to confirm this problem. I used a pen microscope from Harbor Freight to see the solder problem. Upon the really magnified view, I could see the improper "cold solder" joint that meant the manufacturer didn't heat the thick pins enough. Really easy to fix though. The rest of the circuit board soldering work looked good. It is just that the thicker pins need a lot more heat and time heated to be effective, otherwise this error occurs. Good luck all! Russ

Jan 31 I cleaned the connector to the abs unit and had no problem for 4 days and now the problem is back again... I am wondering if it is my abs unit or the controls for it... the traction light is now coming on in addition to the other lights... then clears up a few minutes later???

I think this explains these problems well http://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/for...?p=46827#46827

Jan 27 Error codes 1633, 1618, 0722, no speedometer (-----), no tripometer (-----), abs light, check engine light, brake light, and sometimes a flashing upshift that occasionally results in reduced power mode on the transmission.... and then it all goes away and runs fine for day/hours/minutes? I reset the codes and all is well for a while. The one code that appears alone... at first... is the 1633. While driving the speedometer just drops out resulting in the above symptoms. Then, magically it all starts working fine again. This behavior was once every two to three months, now daily. I replace the transmission speed sensor yet didn't change a thing. Occasionally, where the dash displays the outside temp etc, I read the word "d i s c"... is there a hard drive in this car? Thanks for the help!