We own a 2003 XC70 with 40,000 miles that has run trouble free to date. We have kept past Volvo's until they have 150 to 200K miles on them. We have never taken an extended warranty or experienced an expense that would have justified it on the other cars.
The complexity and AWD system of the XC has caused me to inquire about the extended warranty. I was quoted $2400 (total car coverage by a volvo dealer)to extend to 100K miles with a $100 deductible ($2000 for just power train coverage). Policy is called "Easy Care" APCO Ins..
I would welcome any comments on how the newer XC's are standing up, especailly any with higher miles (say 70K + miles. Has anyone bought an extended warrenty
and was it worth it, etc. My initial feeling is that, if Volvo has gotten bad enough to need an extended warranty to protect me from significant repairs up to only 100K miles, then I will think of selling the car. Thx. Art

I would definitely get it...or a similar one. We did on our '04 V70, up to 100K miles when we bought the car. This was after experience with many expensive repairs on our '94 850 (but back then I didn't know about this or other Volvo forums). However, even knowing about these board, I feel like we made the best decision. With all of the computerized gadgetry on these cars and their complexities the warranty will probably pay for itself. I'm saying this because now Volvo doesn't repair parts (like we're used to doing on these boards), but instead, they take a bad part out and replace it completely with a new one from the codes that are read. They do this routinely, and don't seem to care if they get it wrong..."oh well, we'll try this part next," is their attitude. If you're not under warranty and you take your car to the dealer, you as the customer end up paying for all of these parts, and the labor to install them as well as remove them, and it is very expensive ($110 an hour for labor at my dealer). Also, a seemingly small part on the '01 and newer Volvo's costs a rediculous amount of money. By 100K miles, what will go wrong on your car probably will have already done so...also by then you will have learned enough about your car and hopefully your indy mechanic and others (maybe even us) will have access to a CAN bus and possibly even a Volvo specific code reader so we can do our own repairs. So here are my reasons...compelling or not.
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic, 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red, Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon. My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.