Just done 201000 miles
Discussion
Hi all,
My 1999 V70 has just hit the +200k mark, very pleased with it. but, it has a little smoke when you floor the gas pedal...well a ton of smoke....great when some tosser is tail gating you as they tend to fall back coughing....but may not be so good on it's next MOT
I bought some fuel/diesel/injector cleaner and chucked it in the tank when we last filled it up.....
Is that stuff any good?....should i continue to buy it at £3 a bottle?......or what can I do to make sure it definitely passes it's next MOT...I have a little while as it is in May
cheers for the help/advice in advance
My 1999 V70 has just hit the +200k mark, very pleased with it. but, it has a little smoke when you floor the gas pedal...well a ton of smoke....great when some tosser is tail gating you as they tend to fall back coughing....but may not be so good on it's next MOT
I bought some fuel/diesel/injector cleaner and chucked it in the tank when we last filled it up.....
Is that stuff any good?....should i continue to buy it at £3 a bottle?......or what can I do to make sure it definitely passes it's next MOT...I have a little while as it is in May
cheers for the help/advice in advance
Hi , thanks for the reply...it is a diesel....it has a small puff of smoke when started, and then a shed load if you drop it to 2nd or 3rd gear and floor it, once that is done and you try it again it appears to have "decoked" for that journey.
The car on the whole is not driven hard. The smoke is just "smoke" dark and tastes foul!!
cheers
The car on the whole is not driven hard. The smoke is just "smoke" dark and tastes foul!!
cheers
My 1999 V70 2.5D with circa 195K miles on it would smoke on start up. Like a Spitfire with individual cylinders slowing joining in. It improved somewhat when I fitted new glow plugs.
There was also some heavy smoke if you booted it after idling in a queue for some time. I once got stuck in a 3 hour near stationary traffic jam, resulting in an almightly sun-blocking plume when accelerating away up the motorway slip road.
There was also some heavy smoke if you booted it after idling in a queue for some time. I once got stuck in a 3 hour near stationary traffic jam, resulting in an almightly sun-blocking plume when accelerating away up the motorway slip road.
RDMcG said:
mybrainhurts said:
2008 V70 2.4D here...
Just passed 390,000 and still sweet as a nut...
Miles?...that is very impressive. Any major failures?Just passed 390,000 and still sweet as a nut...
No major failures, but a couple of red herrings that my garage got wrong, resulting in a new steering pump and a new primary fuel pump in the tank. The latter only needed a wiring fix, Volvo do a repair kit so it must be fairly common. The steering pump was screaming like a banshee but stopped screaming when the belt was disconnected. The new pump started screaming after a day and the fault was then traced to a blocked baffle filter in the fluid reservoir. Ten minutes and a flush out with petrol fixed it. Known fault, silly design.
Apart from that, only suspension bushes, etc, courtesy of Sheffield's tank proving grounds that pass as roads, one ball joint six months ago and a new swirl valve when its plastic operating rod fell off...common fault, bad design again.
mybrainhurts said:
Miles
No major failures, but a couple of red herrings that my garage got wrong, resulting in a new steering pump and a new primary fuel pump in the tank. The latter only needed a wiring fix, Volvo do a repair kit so it must be fairly common. The steering pump was screaming like a banshee but stopped screaming when the belt was disconnected. The new pump started screaming after a day and the fault was then traced to a blocked baffle filter in the fluid reservoir. Ten minutes and a flush out with petrol fixed it. Known fault, silly design.
Apart from that, only suspension bushes, etc, courtesy of Sheffield's tank proving grounds that pass as roads, one ball joint six months ago and a new swirl valve when its plastic operating rod fell off...common fault, bad design again.
Incredible. My 2008 Cayenne has 100.000 miles but I am humbledNo major failures, but a couple of red herrings that my garage got wrong, resulting in a new steering pump and a new primary fuel pump in the tank. The latter only needed a wiring fix, Volvo do a repair kit so it must be fairly common. The steering pump was screaming like a banshee but stopped screaming when the belt was disconnected. The new pump started screaming after a day and the fault was then traced to a blocked baffle filter in the fluid reservoir. Ten minutes and a flush out with petrol fixed it. Known fault, silly design.
Apart from that, only suspension bushes, etc, courtesy of Sheffield's tank proving grounds that pass as roads, one ball joint six months ago and a new swirl valve when its plastic operating rod fell off...common fault, bad design again.
,,,,,this is the best PH stuffHainey said:
mybrainhurts said:
Hainey said:
mybrainhurts said:
2008 V70 2.4D here...
Just passed 390,000 and still as sweet as a nut...
Planning on taking it to the half million?Just passed 390,000 and still as sweet as a nut...
Snow tyres are on the original rims
^^^^^^She's in there somewhere...
^^^^^^A view from the front window...
We had 280,000 on this one.
It was going to continue, until it was written off when some clown lost it on a blind bend, sideswiped it and buggered off. We beat plod to it and tracked him down 22 hours later. Just call me Sherlock....
Edited by mybrainhurts on Saturday 14th January 03:49
Hainey said:
You'd never think for a second it was on those miles to look at it. I'm of the generation where something with those miles is a battle scarred ex taxi heap. That plainly isn't!
Well, sort of right. We run a couple of cars, shuttling the more civilised kind of customer all over the country.mybrainhurts said:
The steering pump was screaming like a banshee but stopped screaming when the belt was disconnected. The new pump started screaming after a day and the fault was then traced to a blocked baffle filter in the fluid reservoir. Ten minutes and a flush out with petrol fixed it. Known fault, silly design.
There is an official recall for this, new reservoir and pipework required. Only affects 2007/2008 cars apparently.My 2007 S80 auto diesel is only at 168k miles, so far only required an alternator pulley when the free wheel mechanism seized. Still very comfortable and cruises quietly and serenely at 90.
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