Thanks JRL, The fluid was change in January, and I'm not sure about the other stuff. I've talked to a couple of other Volvo mechanic and they agree that it sounds like the tranny needs replacing. The good news is, the dealership is going to cut us a bit of a deal on the pricing, so at least we won't...

Sorry for the delay in reporting back... The dealership was very nice, but not much help. At the end of a 1-hour meeting with the service manager, his best advice was that we go through Volvo and see if they will help us due to the established history of problems with the transmission in this model ...

MIJ & JRL, Thanks for your replies. Yes, transmission flush was done in January and appears to have also been done in 2006,at 71k mi. by "Shifting rough" I mean that the tach would jump a bit sometimes when shifting from 2nd to 3rd, or 3rd to 4th-- like it wasn't quite sure if it was s...

Hi, I'm so glad to have found this site!!! I need advice desperately. I apologize that this is a long post-- please bear with me. Hubby and I purchased a 2002 V70 XC with 94,500 miles on Feb 15th from a small lot. We had pulled CarFax report and liked that it had been with a single owner and always ...