Foot-in-mouth anyhow. The idle is better on start-up. After running about 10 seconds the idle will surge to about 1500RPM for about 10 seconds then go back to 900RPM. (only when cold) Breaking from 45+MPH still causes the the RPMs to dip enough to light the transaxle dash arrow, the car to want to s...

I figured it out!

The hose connecting the front of the car to the air filter housing had come off. Car runs fine now. Have to check over the dealers work for now on /sigh.

Next up:
Front Rotors - cross cut and dimpled with a set of ceramic pads

Sounds good to me. Will have it towed to the dealer tomorrow morning and will call Volvo directly and tell them the situation, if the dealer doesn't agree to replace the ETM. Thanks for the advice, Vegas. It's not just that the idle is surging, it's that when the RPMs dip so hard, the transaxle arro...

I agree, and it definitely didn't take much to replicate the issue. BUT they could have at least of put gas back into it! I didn't think the ETM cleaning to related to it blowing smoke now. This is a bit ridiculous. Sounds like they need to replace the ETM, and I'm not at all sure what would be caus...

If he told you 117 volts he's feeding you a line of BS. There's no way there could be that much voltage - your whole electric system would be fried and your car probably would have started on fire. I am quoting this verbatim from my receipt. "Scanned for codes and found ECM-8010 for battery vo...

The replaced battery cables didn't solve the issue. They couldn't find a fault elsewhere, and they felt the surge when driving the car, so they "convinced the shop foreman" to allow them to clean the ETM under warranty. They're having one of their techs drive it home tonight (I'm all for i...

zprovo wrote:I purchased my positive cables FCP Groton, and I will tell you the positive cable to the fuse block is a major pain to replace, that maybe why the quote is so high...

Thanks. That makes me feel better about the price I'm paying, knowing most of my money is going towards labor costs.

The whole paying $630 for the new cables being installed seems like I'm being ripped off. The two positive cables cost $122 (including shipping), but I cannot find the negative cable to purchase from anywhere. The dealer made replacing the cables a "big job" and actually big enough that th...

I can't seem to find a negative battery cable for purchase; looked on eeuroparts, ipdusa, and fcpgroton. Would anyone happen to know where to find one?

Thanks!

Ouch!

Sounds like a group buy, once we can get them for a decent price.