I just moved to CO and I have a job where I will be driving about 30k miles a year.

Being in CO, it is very nice to have something with AWD, but I really need to spend less than $5k and $4k would really be better.

So the question is how bad is this transmission issue? If I check the fluid and it ...

A buddy of mine is considering a 2001 S60.

How are they? Any big known issues?

What should I be on the look out for during test drive etc

the radiator was recently replaced, so maybe that has something to do with it

yea, I am going to clean it up this weekend.

the crap part is that my back up car is also down.....and I just moved to a new house with a one year old.......

the underside of my car is covered in tranmission oil and it was a quart low.......


CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP.


I just drove 5 hrs on fri, 6 on monday and 4 today.

Tomorrow, another 4 hours of driving and maybe again on thurs.


Anyway, are there common reasons for a leaking auto trans

what is that charcoal thing?

I am also getting a CEL light every now and then. I can not remember the code, but my research pointed to vacuum hose leak.

I guess i need to identify and replace all the hoses.

jablackburn wrote:Mine will do that sometimes if it sits for a while (a few days - a week) without being driven. Do you get a big cloud of blue smoke if you rev it after starting up after the weekend?

No, not that I notice

I normally do not drive my 99V70 on the weekend so it will sometimes go from Fri Night till Monday morning with out running.

When it does go this long with out running it starts kinda rough. It turns over and starts just fine but it idles rough for about 10-15 seconds. After that it sounds like ...

i go more like 4-5k miles.

that reminds me, i need to change the oil on my car

I already had coolant on the carpet from when it was leaking.

my pad was still a bit wet when I put it back together