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drop in tick over and stalling

Everything on the Volvo S80. Sometimes called an "executive car", the S80 was Volvo's top-of-the-line passenger car. P2 platform.
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contrast1
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Joined: 26 January 2010
Year and Model: 2000 s80
Location: scarborough

drop in tick over and stalling

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hi everyone . just a quick one .. i have a problem with my s80 its a 2000 model and has quite a bit of mileage on her its a automatic .. the problem is when I'm driving it accelerate its spot on its when i stop accelerating the idling drops from about 800 revs to about 400 revs and sometimes stalls anyone any ideas ..thanks Richie

stevick
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Post by stevick »

My 2000 S80 2.9 -- also with very high mileage (288K) -- was doing this a while back. I cleaned the throttle body in accordance with the how-to post in this forum and the problem was cured. That's my best guess. Good luck!

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