Your wife is awesome and you are a lucky man.

Is it indeed an R model or just FWD?

That will change the troubleshooting path a lot

is it all wheel drive? If so, sounds like bad rear drive shaft. but I haven't had much experience with p2

Upon further inspection the upper engine mount is basically gone. Dont have much hope of the other mounts being much better but too dark too tell. Can bad mounts really be the cause? Can they cause so much vibration it feels like a bad tranny or a dead cylinder? This was my first thought. My front ...

abscate wrote: ↑15 May 2019, 19:16 Your wife is awesome and you are a lucky man.

Here's an older thread from 2014/15 discussing the 2000 v70 SE:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67349

This link was posted by RSPI within that thread:
http://new.volvocars.com/ownersdocs/200 ... 0_v70.html