As the owners of a 740 for 7 years ( 200k) we were really excited to purchase our v70xc. It is a wonderfully sensuous car, lush and cush. It handles great, and is really fun to leave the punks at the light with.

However, our xc tranny just went thunk (or thump) at 77K.

Now a bad tranny is not bad.

The pricetag is.

$3986 and a few pennies later, we are considering (and this is a very hard choice) moving to another brand. With the usual trunk delamination problem, leaky powersteering pump, and what we considered normal volvo upkeep, this is just too expensive, how much is the motor going to cost, or something else...

After researching what we could, CHANGE your ATF at the 15k interval (3900 buys alot of atf). If the transmission even shifts a little strange, change the atf.

Did I mention to possibly change the atf (and the synthetic is supposed to smooth things out abit). Even after rigourous upkeep (I'm a maintence fanatic). We had a major componet failure before 100k. In this day of high reliablity everything, this is truely unacceptable.

And Volvo keeps dropping the warranty level, 70k, 50k, what next? 10feet 10 minutes. It's possible that by dropping the warrenty level, they get volvo customers to purchase newer vehicles sooner. And it's also quite possible this is a risk reduction strategy (reducing exposure to warrenty loss).

Sign me,

Last Volvo