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



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE Replies to this message will be emailed.    PRINT   SAVE 

Dealer maintenance? Not if I can help it. S70 2000

posted by  Irollturbo on  Sun Feb 16 13:08 CST 2003
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS]
last visit: Sat Sep 6 14:36 CST 2014
[RELATED]

Just turned an incredible 13,000 miles on my S70. woo woo. 15K coming up in, what, six months :-)

I have been doing all maintenance and "over maintenance" myself and have not had the car serviced at the dealer. I do not plan to do so either. Just don't feel like losing the car for a day for an over-priced oil change and spit shine.

Any thoughts on this with respect to warantee issues? Are there any service items I may me missing? Not a whole lot to do at this point. So far I have done the following over-maintenance:

-Changed oil with quality synthetic more times than I care to admit.
-Flushed transmission fluid with a quality synthetic.
-Replaced as much power steering fluid as I could get out by draining the line with a quality sythetic ATF.
-Flushed brake fluid with ATE Super Blue
-Drained coolant and replaced with Volvo coolant.

I supposed I should take a peak at the S-belt sometime in the next year.

Anything else I should think about?

Thanks,
Ted





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.