Your dealer will be able to tell by VIN whether your car is affected and whether you are eligible for any free service work.

This applies to all owners, actually ofany Volvo built in the last 20 years: give the service dept the VIN and ask if there are any "open service campaigns" for the vehicle in question.

There have been quite a few, from the 1990 740 cold-start up through these most recent ones. Many of them are not recalls, as such, but are campaigns that only the dealer knows about; when a car comes in with such-and-such a problem, it's flagged as a warranty service and the dealer does the work for free.

I believe you can find out any recall info about your car at www.nhtsa.gov (Natl' Hwy & Traffic Safety Agency).

The throttle body thing has been going on with all the drive-by-wire cars, to my knowledge, since 1999. Volvo owes people either a real, workable, reliable repair or some kind of compensation, up to and including replacement of the vehicle. The electronic throttle units list for something like $800, though supposedly no one is actually paying for it, Volvo is covering all of them now as a warranty item. If you ask me, exchanging a mechanical throttle cable for a computer-actuated gizmo with software in it no less, is just begging for expensive failures.
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