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Dear Bob--read your tale of woe of spending six hundred dollars for a used ABS module. I own two 97 850 wagons, and the ABS module failed on both with two weeks of each other. One, the R model, is here in the States. The other, a GLT model, had shipped to Norway. There has to be some kind of symbiotic relation between those two cars for that to happen.
The posts you're received all say you got ripped off, and they are correct. I sent my first ABS module to Victor Roche, who charged me $145 plus shipping at my end, and I got it back within six days, installed it, and no more ABS light. The people who nicked you $600 probably installed an ABS module that Victor hadn't reconditioned. I think what really p-sses me off most about these modules, is that the same company makes them for Volvos, Audis, BMWs, etc., and they all fail, if you read any of the other forums. Volvo knows this. Has known it since 93 or 94 when they started importing 850's to the US. The modules are made in the Phillipines by some company, and they have had many years to correct the defects in the mother boards (which Victor does), but they didn't and won't do it. It's a cash cow for the Volvo service and indy garages.
I don't know if you will have any luck in renegotiating your $600 bill, even if you threaten them with the internet and bad publicity, but you can try. If the module they installed hasn't been upgraded by Victor, it could easily fail like your first one. Then all you can do is send it to Victor for repair and upgrading so it won't fail again.
Sadder bit wiser, but we've all been there at one time or another in our lives. Follow this forum more closely in the future to avoid getting ripped off like you did. Dick
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