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



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE    PRINT   SAVE 

increase in fuel consumption XC70

posted by  afm on  Tue Mar 13 07:42 CST 2012
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS]
last visit: Sun Oct 19 04:58 CST 2014
[RELATED]

Rich, We have owned my wife's 2003 XC for 7 years. It only has 86K miles on it.
She will not depart from the Volvo line (owned 7, starting with a 1981 240 wagon. I drive a 2004 V70 (136K miles), and the XC is at it's best when the going "gets tough." The XC has been mostly maintained by me with the help of this site.
The only major repairs I can recall are: I had to replace the alarm module (2hrs, $180 for part). Also, last Fall the right rear parking brake sheared from it's mounting plate and tore up the internals in that area. I had both rear braking assemblies renewed (new disc's, parking pads, brake pads, bearing and shaft on damaged side,etc). It cost about $1100......... I was not
happy with the failure, but the problem may have been precipated by a bad batch of bonded parking pads dating back to factory assembly per repair shop seeing several of these faliures in 2003's.
I would definitely recommend checking/replacing the parking brake pads the next time rear disc pads are replaced.
Art






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.