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Talking about the late '98 70 series V70-XC70

posted by  jda2000 on  Thu Apr 8 15:24 CST 2004
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Eddie, not to be argumentative, but my '98 V70 was built 7/98(late built), just before the 8/98 built of the '99 models.

Anyway, I took my car to the dealer to have the t-belt replaced at 75K miles. The dealer told me that I had the mechanical tensioner and the belt looked like new and volvo recommended the interval to go to 105K miles.

So my point was, if you know you have a late '98 with the mechanical tensioner then treat the car like a '99 model, and do routine inspections every 10K miles until you get to 100K miles, and then replace.
My comment was not for early '98 models with the hydraulic tensioner. I have read stories about belts braking at 50K miles anyhow, so if the belt is defective it would go sooner than later.

By the way, Eddie where about in Florida are you?. I am down in the Bradenton/Sarasota area.

Cheers

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'88 240, '92 745, '98 v70 John, Tampa Bay






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