Little background here....

Purchased a '04 NA v70 with 42,500 and a Volvo used car 100k certified warranty last year.

Just replaced their Kumho tires and noticed both REAR rotors were grooved/scored, yet there was plenty of meat on the outboard pads. The tire store sales person remarked that he thought the calipers must be sticking....both REAR sides? Oh well. The fronts were fine.

I took the car in to the Dealer with 77k today because it DIED twice this past week at the stoplight. It restarted and stumbled for a while then seems to have evened out over the course of driving.

Although it definitely feels sluggish, especially with the AC on, during the humidity here in Michigan. So I delivered the car this morning with both complaints.

The dealer can find nothing to cause the drive-ability problem. He says it seems to be fine.

The brakes he says are worn to metal on metal on the inboard side and I need to spend $475 to fix them. I did not ask for details on how they arrived at $475. I did ask him about the cause, and the calipers, and he said the calipers are fine and it was the guide pins that were corroded that caused the calipers on both sides to hang up.

Perfectly plausible reason for the condition but I felt the guide pins should not fail on both sides SIMULTANEOUSLY. He said guide pins are a maintenance item that are serviced with brake pads and rotors, and that if they are lubed properly they do not corrode. He told me when the brakes are serviced the pins need to be serviced too. Thing is...THEY did the brake job at 35k. They even have it on the service history.

He says it does not matter and they are NOT responsible for a MAINTENANCE item.

I think they are responsible....am I off-base? I think they need to back up their work and their car.

Plus I have a car that is certainly going to die out and stumble again...and they cannot find out what is wrong. The advisor says the throttle in this car is not the same as the earlier models and there are no problems and I am looking in the wrong place.

It looks like I am doing brakes this weekend...but I would rather have them take care of this.

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I'm stuck on Volvo and Volvo's stuck on me....