I was a frequent posting brickboard member in years past when I had 240’s but haven’t posted since owning 3 xc90’s. I am a trained master mechanic (Drivability technician in Ford dealerships in the mid 80’s until the late 90’s) who now repairs medical equipment (25 years) in the Texas medical center.
I experienced a died while driving incident last Tuesday.
My car is a 2013 xc90 with 92,xxx miles. Recently my car started hesitating when accelerating after decelerating for a short time. That hesitation was very intermittent but always felt the same. On my way to work last Tuesday, I was accelerating after decelerating in rush hour traffic. The car acted like it was just hesitating like it had been doing but never accelerated. It was dead and I barely made it to the side of the road. It now cranks no start. I have not had to diagnose this condition with any of my Volvos. I had an issue with a fuel pump on my 85 240 that I quickly diagnosed and repaired. And another time where my 85 240 started hesitating but I quickly played with the MAF sensor connector and I was back up and going. And then once when my alternator went out on my 2011 xc90. Replaced alt and back up and going.

After reading several forum threads, I replaced my PEM. I bought it from the dealer.$5xx dollars later. ….. still cranks no start.

I have a couple of questions for you guys.
Can I add some type of connection to the end of my fuel rail to be able to attach a fuel pressure gauge?
And….. should my tach needle be moving when I am cranking it. My doesn’t move and I read once that if it doesn’t move, the problem might be the CPS.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
I’m driving a rented Hundue right now. Please help.

Fixed. See forum thread I found. Exact same problem.

https://volvoforums.com/forum/volvo-xc90-9/solved-2013-p2-xc90-crank-no-start-109697/

Hi Kyle,

I don't have info or experience with the XC90 but do have some ideas.

Don't you have a valve at the fuel rail to check for fuel pressure?
Make sure you have fuel pressure at the rail.

Get the OBD codes.
Maybe you can talk some parts store into loaning out their reader.
Leave collateral, maybe a credit card if you have to.
Maybe you can buy one and return it if it doesn't work.
You're out in left field without a reader.

The CPS is the heart of engine management. You can disconnect the CPS
and look for a coil at pins 1 & 2 in the 850 it should be 260-340 ohms
Pin 3 is ground. Make sure it's not shorted to pin 1 or 2
Carefully inspect the connector and use Penetrox-A on reassembly.

You can try disconnecting your battery for 10 seconds which should clear ECU memory. This is a long shot but resetting the ECU's has solved a no-start with my 940. Somehow the ECU's got corrupted, perhaps with RFI?
Rebooting the ECU's made a difference.

Best luck, Bill





It's easy enough to try to see if you can start again.