UPDATE: We ended up selling the vehicle to someone who wanted to, and had experience, to tackle trying to fix the transmission. He contacted me a few weeks later informing me that he had fixed the trans, and it's issues were due to a cracked forward clutch drum. He was able to weld the drum and used ...

Hello,

Anyone know of a good place online to purchase replacement gas struts for the boot (2) and the bonnet (1)? Need to replace mine. Thanks

Sorry, I'm referring to the 'skid pan' (?) that bolts on under the car, under the engine/trans. Have to remove it to change oil filter, see underside of engine/trans.

They often leak from the seams but that is more of a weeping than a leaking.

Yes this is what we found.

Yes we did find a suspect area, but I can't recall now exactly where it was, but it was at a joint/seal area (it made sense). We did clean all the underside of the trans and bolted the engine pan back in place, drove it for 2 weeks then dropped the pan again to inspect for leakage and there was next ...

Ever since we owned it (bought used at 165,000km) it had a hard shift from 2nd to 3rd. Not a huge deal and ran fine for years. On the recommendation from our Volvo mechanic, we took it to a transmission shop for them to do the ATF flush and have a look at it and see if they could diagnose anything ...

As always, great info. Appreciate the assistance. I will move forward with valve body repair/replacement and the B4 servo cover fix (already looked into that from IPD). We did perform a full ATF flush with the correct fluid about 6 months before it "died". Found a great tutorial on Youtube on how to ...

Thank you for that info! Very helpful and I'll discuss this with my guy tomorrow.

Question then, could we not just take and use the solenoids and valve body off the spare trans and install them into the non working trans in the XC70?

Hello all,

Have a 2002 XC70 with 190,000km and the trans has gone. After about 5 min (warm up) of driving the transmission slips like you are in neutral - no power going to the wheels. My research has found that this is a fairly common issue with the V70/XC70s. The trans is a AW55-50SN.

My ...