No new therm. Second shop confirmed what I was scared of and trying to avoid and test for all along. Blown head gasket. Since I've owned the car 2.5 years and only been able to drive it for 5 months, I'll be selling or scrapping. Ugh.

I'm so glad I'm not the only person to almost completely lose it over these cars. You should definitely get a new coolant bottle also. Buy good volvo parts if you don't you will regret it! That's why I just took it to the shop! I'm trying to learn about this and since my Dad is two states away but ...

little update: had this into a shop, they did a pressure test. No leaks. They found problems with the fan like I did and found it was the motor to the fan, replaced fan, aux fan, relays. Drove it last night for about 40 minutes total with no apparent loss of coolant or overheating even in under 40 m...

Thanks! I should replace it just to be sure. It's the green one (which I heard is better than grey on this site) but I just am not sure about it. The last time it looked off, it wasn't boiling over or out and I spoke with my Daddo again who said he's pretty sure after hearing of my latest adventures...

I did all of that, ran it to warm and checked fluids again... seemed to be fine/normal (temp sensor at 3 pm no noises or smells that I could detect). So I drove once around the block and nothing until I turned the AC on. Then it seemed to be getting hot quickly. I only started the AC near my house. ...

So, spoke with my father. (a veteran 35 year experienced master mechanic who unfortunately lives in another state but has worked on the car before) He said that the 02 error code was already in there previously and had nothing to do with this. He further said that my mom's boyfriend having apparentl...

Ok...I came back to this after pulling codes and checking fluids and calming myself down so that I'm not just losing it emotionally and unable to really think about or see what's happening. It's showing me an 02 sensor code (P0135). It did start and ran actually seemingly fine. I did have to replace...

So... I let my mom's boyfriend check the fluids in my car the other day and then we drove it today and it spontaneously overheated and was spewing coolant. We were in a local dairy drive through and the guy there helped us put some water in and get it cooled down and he said he thought the coolant c...