In reply to westsidetalon :
sSorry I didn't have time to clean them up, I'm off to a wedding in a few and just realized I forgot to do this hthe other night.
In reply to westsidetalon :
sSorry I didn't have time to clean them up, I'm off to a wedding in a few and just realized I forgot to do this hthe other night.
lnlogauge said:AC like everyone said was one of the biggest. Mine would work when it was 70 degrees out. When it was 90, nothing. There was something funky with the electricals.
Probably a compressor clutch failing. My S40 did that, and I expect the S60 to do it too. Whiteblock engines, same accessories, same problems. Turn the A/C off for about ten minutes (it wasn't working anyway, right?) to let the magnetic coil cool off, and try again. The clutch gap opens up and the coil gets really hot. The suck part is nobody offers the clutch separately, so the only way to repair it is to replace the compressor assembly. That's easy to do on an S40, because there's no subframe to get in the way. Not so much the Volvo-chassis cars.
I dont remember all the issues, but I know in the 2 years I had it was 1600$ in parts.
That's not really bad for any used European car. That's not even a hundred bucks a month!
disclaimer: My S60 (second/third?-generation Volvo front-drive chassis, but still really similar because Volvo takes a design and runs it into the ground like any smart small manufacturer does) has cost me $900 in repairs over the first/previous six months of ownership, and it needs front suspension bushings despite them having been done by the PO shortly before he sold it to me, and then I see the PARTS costs of what people with E46s have to deal with on a regular basis, and I think I got the thrifty miser version...
In reply to stylngle2003 :
You remember a white 850 wagon?
In reply to Furious_E :
my Challenge budget allows me $60 shipped lmk thx
In reply to Furious_E :
lmk
In reply to westsidetalon :
Sorry man, I missed your earlier post. Just replied to your PM.
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