My wife and I drove our 2000 S80-T6 with 58,000 miles from Charlotte, NC to Charleston, SC (about a 3 hour trip) last weekend. I noticed on the trip that the car was hesitating somewhat but just thought that maybe I had gotten some bad gas.

On the return trip I got a "Urgent Service Engine" message. I pulled off the road and turned the car off. I waited a few minutes and cranked it up again and the message was gone.

The next day on the way home from the grocery store the car lost almost all power. I could barely get it to go 20-25 mph, but was close enough to home to put on the emergency flashers and get the car back home. I had it towed to an independent garage in Rock Hill, SC that has a good reputation for working on Volvos.

He plugged the car up and informed me that I would need a new throttle body assembly with an updated software download from Volvo (cost about $750). I also had a 60K service done on the car (minus the oil change since I'm using synthetic oil and doing that myself) for about $384.

We are also having the two front strut bearings replaced along with the sub-frame O-Rings (total cost for this around $450 - $500). So I'm looking at around $1,700.

Has anyone with a S80 ever had their throttle body assembly go out ? Does the pricing on all of this work sound fair ? I'm thinking that I would have paid more at the dealership. Is this a precurser of more bad things to come ?

Thanks in advance for any feedback. BrianL