My wife loves her 2007 XC90 after driving a 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee for seven years (currently my winter rat). The throaty V8 has such smooth accelaration and power and the ride is out of this world compared to the Jeep. The jeep continues to nickel and dime us, as I have replaced brake calipers ev...

Update: Drove the car yesterday after work and the noise was not replicated when in D and pumping the brakes. Good news! Thanks Jimmy57 for your insight. I've learned a great deal about the shift interlock solenoid after searching this forum . I've been lurking on this sight for a while and think it...

Okay, thanks for the heads up Jimmy. I'll check to see if it makes the noise in Drive as well. It's my wife's vehicle, but I've driven it enough to know that I've never heard that noise before. Although, now that I think about it, prior to doing this brake job I've never just sat in her car and pump...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKizPLPWDqM This link demonstrates the noise I'm hearing when pressing and releasing the brake pedal while the car is running and in Park. Unfortunately, there were no comments posted for this video, but at least you can hear the "flapping" or "popping&q...

Thanks for the reply Jimmy. I'm still learning the ins-and-outs of the Volvo mechanical world. Prior to this vehicle, we owned two jeep grand cherokees which I did a lot of work on personally. Volvo is on a completely different level than Chrysler when it comes to mechanical technologies. Could you ...

So I replaced the front pads and rotors on my wife's XC90 last night. Didn't have time to wrap it up, last night so I put the wheels back on tonight after work. I started it up in the garage and pumped the brakes to re-establish brake pedal pressure. No problems there, after four or five pumps the p...