S60, 2001 w/ 88k, losing performance

ingchr · Post by **ingchr** » 13 Mar 2011, 14:21

Hello

I have had my 51 reg S60 T since the beginning of the year and it was all right for about 2 weeks and then it all off a sudden it started to run really rough and I got the error message saying that I had reduced engine performance. Understatement as all my car did was cost to a halt. The engine was still running, but as if the engine was in neutral. From then on it would wait until I tried to accelerate out of a junction or to get past a car and give up the ghost and nearly get the pair of us wiped out a couple of times.
I took it to someone I knew with diagnostic equipment and according to his system it said it was down to the accelerator pedal sensor. I bought a new one and had it fitted and the brain reset. It then worked fine for a night. Following day same thing.

I then took it to a trusted local garage who wiped the brain as they thought it might be simulating the fault has my mate may not of done it properly. It worked fine for about a week and started again. I took it back to the garage and then ran the diagnostic, which said it was down to my throttle body. The garage had checked the Volvo forum before attempting to fix it and found out that apparently this is an issue with throttle body’s on the S60 and advised me that Volvo are aware of the issue and replace it for nothing. I was told to take it to a Volvo dealership so they could confirm that this was the case, or otherwise Volvo would not replace it. I phone my local Volvo dealership who quoted £100 for the diagnostic and another £100 for hours I booked it in the very next day.
The following day the error stopped showing and then car was fine for over a week. I thought the fact I had changed petrol station might have something to do with it, but guess what about a week ago it has started doing it again, but instead of when I have just started off it is happening after about 20 miles, when the engine is hot. I am confused and obviously don’t want to pay £200 out just to find out it isn’t the throttle body. Help please is there anything else it could be???

otis44 · Post by **otis44** » 13 Mar 2011, 20:45

What is a 51 S60?

Post by **jimmy57** » 13 Mar 2011, 21:15

The garage has told you its throttle.
Symptoms are of bad throttle. They are intermittent.
Does UK have 10 year, 200K mile warranty on ETM's?
What year model is the car?

ingchr · Post by **ingchr** » 14 Mar 2011, 12:14

The year 2001 reg with 88,000 on it. Full service history, so it seems to been looked after.