I sympathise with you. I absolutely loath mine.

Today I collected my car after another week at a dealership, it is an earlier s40 which is really poorly built. My car has in the 18 months of ownership had in excess of 20 repairs - luckily all under warranty. This weeks faults were central locking, and yet more suspension knocks. Anti Roll bar bushes were replaced (the last ones went for 3 months and 5000 miles before a knock returned)

So far suspension/steering repairs have consisted of :-

rear struts (both)

rear bushes (a known fault with s40's)

front control arms (a known fault with s40's)

antiroll bar bushes (twice)

reseating of the wheel bearings (a known fault with s40's)

steering rack

the list of other faults is just as long - switches, warning lights, oil pressure, seized brakes etc, etc.

Frankly the suspension on the car is so unreliable that I cannot put up with it for much longer, I am amazed my patients has lasted this long. Nowadays I wait for 2 or 3 things to go wrong at a time before taking the car in, as inevitably they will.

It really makes me wonder if these cars are really fit for the purpose they were intended, as like yourself none of my previous cars have had any such recurring problems despite covering 3 or 4 times the mileage in each.

Cheers

Chris Woolley

Ps if anyone from Volvo UK reads this board, then I would love to hear from you on this subject and welcome the opportunity for you to see my car and its history for yourselves.