150,000 miles, I live in Montana, so car rarely gets hot, but sees really cold (for US, apologies to my Canadian neighbors) From the left (US driver’s side) rear axle/suspension area I have a squeaking noise I cannot locate. Sounds like a rubber bushing squeak. Squeaks for any bump or piece of ...

2004 XC70
It has a leaky power steering rack, which I want to replace.
There are 2 different racks used on the '04:
> with variable speed assistance
> without variable speed assistance
My guess is that this is not the correct nomenclature; so someone please help with that also.

Here is the US, I ...

2004 XC70, 125K miles
HID headlights

I bought this vehicle with 110K miles.

Starting when I bought it it would frequently give an error message and yellow triangle indicating that the alarm system needed service. I could wait a few seconds and this code and light would stop.

A few months ago the ...

I'm facing this differential replacement job now.
We have two 2002 XC70's, and one (192,000 miles) needs the rear diff NOW, and the other one (260,000 miles) is starting to make the same scraping/dragging.
I'm at n=2 level anecdotal evidence, but my learning is that when you start to hear that ...

2002 XC70 192,000

Above 10-15 mph, I get a scraping sound from the rear of the vehicle, possibly one of the wheels.

The scraping sounds like (but isn't) a dragging brake shoe or caliper that won't open. The sound does not stop when I apply the brakes or pull up on the handbrake while driving. I've ...

Update:
> Checked CV joints in front axle. One of them actually came apart when I pulled on it. So, I installed (what I think is) a decent used one I had in the garage.
> Complicating the story: I also have a scraping sound coming from somewhere behind the driver's seat. It could be in the rear axle ...

2002 XC70 192,000

Above 10-15 mph, I get a scraping sound from the rear of the vehicle, possibly one of the wheels.
My (brilliant, but 'hard on equipment') daughter had this away at school for 6 years. I'm working it back up to being ethically sell-able.
One shoe in each wheel's handbrake had ...

2002 XC70, 192,000 miles
When accelerating the car has a rythmic pulsing or surging.
When I'm a steady speed or decelerating: no pulsing.

Any ideas on what to check?

Thanks Again!

Our '06 XC70 (US Model) has the plastic headlight lens (Hey, Volvo! Terrible idea, especially on a 'near-luxury' class priced vehicle). They are fogged inside and out. I've polished the outsides annually, twice. The insides are badly fogged.
1) Does anyone have a source for replacement lens?
2) Has ...

I like the XC70.
We have snow on the road for 3-5 months each year, mud and squish another month.
The XC is my pick-up when I go to the woods, and I can sleep in back if it's raining.

I liked the first one so much that between me, the wife and our three kids we have 5 of them: 2 X 2002 (280 & 191 ...