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1)Make sure that you get torque wrench to change your oil filter: http://www.ipdusa.com/ProductsCat.aspx?CategoryID=142&NodeID=5052&RootID=629.
2) When you crawl under the car you will see a skid plate.
3) Remove the skid plate and you should have access to the oil filter, which sits inside a plastic housing, and the oil plug.
5) Drain the oil.
6) Replace the drain plug.
7) Remove the plastic housing that holds the oil filter.
8) After removing the plastic housing, replace the old insert with a new one.
9) Clean the plastic housing thoroughly, and install a new O-ring.
10) Make sure that you lubricate the new O-ring.
11) Don't tighten the housing too hard, since it is plastic.
12) Pour 6.1 quarts of oil.
13) Put back the skid plate.
2) This discussion comes from another website dedicated solely to XC volvos. You might find this discussion quite helpful. "The unequivocal advice I have received from both Volvo (by phone) and my dealer is not to change the oil until the first service interval, which in the case of U.S. cars is at 7500 miles. *It is not only unnecessary to change the oil before the first service, but Volvo doesn't want you to do it. *With earlier model cars Volvo provided advice in the manual about changing the oil during break-in, but not any more...
Conventional wisdom has been to change the engine oil and filter two or three times in the first service interval, and indeed you may get a Volvo dealer actually offering to do this either for a modest fee or even for free. *It's hard to do, but resist the offer and keep the factory oil in the car until the 7.5K service. *Check the oil level on a regular basis but you will probably find that the car isn't burning any at all. *If you need a little top-up use a hybrid synthetic like Castrol Syntec.
Why? *Advances in metallurgy and lubricants have made frequent early oil changes outmoded. *The tolerances on machined parts are now much tighter and lubricants are far superior to previous years when you had to change the oil frequently during break-in. *If you change the oil too soon in a modern engine all you are doing is increasing the required length of the break-in period, because as forum member Willy (who works in the oil business) has said, the polishing function of the tiniest particles is lost because you flush them out with the old oil. *Volvo has a factory engine break-in protocol that a computer runs on every engine, and the factory fill in the engine is a hybrid syn that Volvo wants left in the engine until the first service.
When you finally change your XC70's oil at 7.5 K miles, use a full synthetic oil. *Syn is a better lubricant and has a higher resistance to heat than a mineral-based oil, and it has much higher film strength - the molecules don't get pushed away from each other under pressure and the oil stays on hot engine parts and coats them uniformly. *Film strength is really important for cold-starts where a lot of engine wear occurs and dino oil is particularly poor here because it drains off parts. *Depending on how cold it is, you can crank the engine and you will essentially be running with no oil for 15-20 seconds with a mineral-based oil.
All syns are not created equal. *If you want the very best for your XC70, use a high quality fully synthetic oil such as Amsoil or Mobil1. *As Jason has pointed out, Mobil1 and Amsoil are PAO (polyalphaolefin) group IV basestocks - most other syns are hydroprocessed mineral oil group III base – they are not true synthetics. *Mobil actually sued Castrol over the use of the word "synthetic" when it reformulated Castrol Syntec from its original PAO group IV basestock to a mineral group III basestock. *Like everything else, you get what you pay for; syn is more expensive than dino oil. *However, if there's a Walmart near you, you can buy Mobil1 on sale there for less than $15 a 5-quart jug. Even off sale, it sells for $18.88 for five quarts. *(The XC70 takes 6 quarts.)
Finally (and I'm sorry for the long rambling post) if you want to be really good to your engine (and you wouldn't have posted your question if you didn't care) use a name-brand premium octane cleaning gasoline such as Chevron or Mobil. *(All the companies use the same generic refined gasoline and differentiate their product with additives blended at the terminal tank farms.) *If you live in a state that doesn't have Chevron add a 20oz bottle of Techron concentrate approx. every 3.5K miles or so. *Techron cleans out all of the carbon and residue crap out of the combustion chambers and it seeps down into the oil. *Add the Techron to the last tank of gas you use before your oil change so that all that junk will be flushed out with the old oil."
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Nautica-Blue Volvo 2001 XC70
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