I have a 1999 Volvo S70. I live in the Minneapolis area and am looking for recommendations on the best volvo repair facility in the area.

I seem to have issues trusting the dealerships here (Borton Volvo and Kline Volvo) as they seem to always be scamming me out of ridiculous expenses ...

I have a Volvo s70 which has been a pain in the ... for the last few weeks.
We experience surging above 50mphs when going a constant speed.

The car does a hesitation/surge off and on. Brought it to Volvo dealership and after they diagnosed it as a ETM software problem they sent us out the door ...

I have a Volvo s70 which has been a pain in the ... for the last few weeks.
We experience surging above 50mphs when going a constant speed.

The car does a hesitation/surge off and on. Brought it to Volvo dealership and after they diagnosed it as a ETM software problem they sent us out the door ...

Glad we figured it out! I guess some S70's do have the extra pulley. We had a volvo shop mechanic look it up on their online manual and it showed the 6 pulleys. Since we knew that was not correct, he looked it up by the engine # and then found the correct routing. All I can think of is that certain ...

Here is the diagram...best I could do.

Hope it helps! Looks like there is no idler pulley.




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Hi! We called Whitney here in Minneapolis at the Garage (He only works on volvo's out of a hidden garage in mpls) and he was our life saver! He too thought we should have 6 pulleys. My husband and I thought we were going crazy but when he looked up my engine # he said that indeed we only had 5 ...

Hi! Thanks for the help. I too looked and only see 5 pulleys that's with the tensioner. ??? The car does have AC as well.

I will give him all this good stuff when he gets home and see if he can work some magic.

thanks!

Okay- husband is working on my car so gotta give him a little credit. Although, he took off the serpentine belt and was relying solely on memory. Well in comes a rain storm...now no idea how belt goes back on!

Please help me get my car back up and running. I've searched and searched the web and no ...