Once, I received a coupon in the mail from a local Volvo/Ford dealership which was for a free 28 point inspection and oil/filter change - Wow, jumped on that. Well, the tech pointed out the left side outer tie rod was worn in my 03 S80. Since my car was closing in on 170 thou miles, I thought I orde...

if you pull dip stick out, does it stop? My 03 s80 did it and it is crank seals pulling air in. The culprit is the flame trap (Volvo's) fancy name for pvc system. It becomes clog and motor pulls excessove vacuum and will cause seals to leak. It will cause engine to miss as well. I believe there is a...

I have a 2003 S80 with 2.9L Normal asperated with 135,000. My engine has an intermittent whirring noise that is loud and turns heads. When I remove the oil cap or dipstick to break vacuum, it immediately stops. The engine misses and tailpipe sputters, when I rev the engine in nuetral, it some times ...

Just last night on the evening news they stated Ford vehicles have a 70% reliability rating - more so than GM, and Chrysler combined. I wonder how much Volvo influence had on Ford engineers. As far as China buying Volvo from Ford - Let me put my two cents in or should I say Yen? It is no secret that...

I replaced my gas cap as well. Had a P2407 code on my 03 S80 2.5 Normal asperated engine with 103 thou. miles. Looked at it carefully and noticed cracks and low grip pressure on seat. After replacing it, the CEL came on again after two days. Looked at all the lines and tried to scan the canister abo...

Thanks MIJ, I did that with both keys issued by manufacture - I also disconnected battery and waited a hour and reconnected and followed owner's manual to activate key fob and used master and valet keys. " No luck. " But over Halloween though, I disconnected the battery once again and cycl...

I have a question for the members: I owned my 2003 S80 Volvo now for a year and a half and every time I activate my locks (Manual door lock and remote), my lights use to flash to signal the alarm was armed. Then it just stop flashing to signal arming, but the system still is operational because I op...