I wouldn't... I don't have the some loyalty as most people on this board as my 00 S70 is the first volvo I've owned. I've never experienced a non-Ford owned volvo NA. It's just poor engineering and workmanship when a company can not fix the same problem for almost a 10 year period. Honda and even some american companies manage to fix major issues such as this within a model year or two, but apparetnly not Volvo. I wouldn't mind trading this annoyance for saftey if Volvo NA would fess up to all their problems. However, they will not admit they have a faulty A/C system even when you complain about it under warranty (mine was rigged to work for 2 months until my warranty ran out... now they won't cover it saying I had two 'seperate' issues despite the problem being the exact same.), on my volvo I've already developed piston slaping thanks to leaky piston o-rings (its a 3 year old car!!), and the best is the thousands of ABS modules that fail every year.. yet Volvo NA refuses to recall them. They have no problem with refurbishing the module and selling it again, but no recall.

Volvo is going to loose market share in a hurry if they don't solve this. I'm looking more and more at getting a subaru, they are proving to be just as safe and they have bullet-proof reliability. Also, no premium gas, no high labor costs, and a more responsive NA headquarters. (I already own a 99 Forster too.)

I bought this car with an open mind. At first I thought it was just my bad luck with just my car. After reading multiple people's problems, it's the same issues Volvo has failed to fix. I'm just tired of the touble.

JH