The message to which you are about to reply is shown first. GO TO REPLY FORM



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE    PRINT   SAVE 

Is the '06 V70 'reliable'? V70-XC70

posted by  Heat on  Sun Feb 12 16:21 CST 2006
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS]
last visit: Wed Sep 26 05:27 CST 2007
[RELATED]

Or any projections on the '07 V70?

I have a '93 945T that I will be selling this coming fall or early next spring, picking up a new vehicle for the family. My short list is: Volvo V70 with manual transmission, Honda Odyssey, and the Mazda5 (the micro-van, with manual transmission).

One interesting thing about the V70, per the lady at the Chicago Auto Show, if I do oversees pickup the cost will be 8% off of MSRP, plus they'll give me two tickets to fly to Sweden to get it (and a hotel room for one night). If I went with the V70 I'd have to special order it anyway since seemingly nobody stocks the manual transmissions.

I'm reading about all of the problems the earlier V70s had, just wondering if new ones also have reliability problems and are also very expensive to maintain. I like the V70, but don't want to buy into a money-pit of course.

I also like doing basic maintenance and some repairs myself (easy on the 945T), but are new V70s hard if not impossible to fix yourself? I've also noticed that there don't seem to be any repair manuals out there...






USERNAME
Use "claim to be" below if you don't want to log in.
PASSWORD
I don't have an account. Sign me up.
CLAIM TO BE
Use only if you don't want to login (post anonymously).
ENTER CAPTCHA CODE
This is required for posting anonymously.
OPTIONS notify by email
Available only to user accounts.
SUBJECT
MODEL/YEAR
MESSAGE

DICTIONARY
LABEL(S) +
IMAGE URL *
[IMAGE LIBRARY (UPLOAD/SELECT)]

* = Field is optional.

+ = Enter space delimited labels for this post. An example entry: 240 muffler


©Jarrod Stenberg 1997-2022. All material except where indicated.


All participants agree to these terms.

Brickboard.com is not affiliated with nor sponsored by AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. or Ford Motor Company. Brickboard.com is a Volvo owner/enthusiast site, similar to a club, and does not intend to pose as an official Volvo site. The official Volvo site can be found here.