2004 xc70 car fax shows regular tire change?

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 16 Apr 2014, 20:03

Carfax on an 04 XC70 has very detailed service history.... Starting at about 20k it reports 4 tires replaced and 4 tires mounted and balanced. Then again a little over 20k: tires(s) replaced, 4 tires mounted and balanced. Next, tire(s) replaced, 4 tires mounted & balanced at 25k! After that, Four tires mounted and balanced at 31k and 35k! This trend continues right thru the 60k's... At 68k, there is a tires rotated.

Is this of concern? Did it really go thru tires every 5k miles and if so why? Or, does that verbage just mean the tires were rotated? Other than that, the car seems to have been well cared for, and has a new t belt, water pump and pulleys, at 102k. My son is considering it. Any info appreciated!

Mike

Post by **vtl** » 16 Apr 2014, 20:28

New pulleys? Crankshaft pulleys, the ones with VVT clutch? Bad oil history?

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 17 Apr 2014, 10:49

No... sorry.. the stuff that comes with the timing belt change....

Post by **jimmy57** » 17 Apr 2014, 13:53

Carfax service coding is strange. Often a new battery is shown as charging system service. I bet you are seeing tire rotations. Carfax is better than not knowing but some trashy wrecks have clean carfax and some pristine cars can have some flags on them.
A data input error when a friend changed addresses and DMV had to hand write or type some things resulted in his car getting flagged as odo/speedo tampering when he went to trade it in. It took him a lot of work to get that fixed with them. It was blantanly obvious looking at the carfax what had happened. The car had a 14K mile per year average. 60 days from last registration event it gained 50K miles. 10 month later registration was reported again with the normal 14K increase to a lower miles.
A windstorm blew a garage down onto a neighbor's 6 month old truck. The garage fell in due to the walls not being anchored to concrete slab so the builder's insurance covered repairs to garage and to truck. Truck got over $20K in repairs and it doesn't show on Carfax.

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 17 Apr 2014, 14:10

I had a feeling it was something like that.... car also makes a very light clunk in the front end on the roughest of roads.... not on normal pavement. Any thoughts on that? And is there anything else my son should look at in particular when he drives this car?

Thanks!

Post by **vtl** » 17 Apr 2014, 14:33

mikeamondo wrote:car also makes a very light clunk in the front end on the roughest of roads.... not on normal pavement. Any thoughts on that?

Sway bar end link, or spring seat, or both.

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 17 Apr 2014, 15:01

Those are fairly easy repairs.... or am I misremembering that? If they are the devil in car repair form, I may want to let him know that!

Post by **vtl** » 17 Apr 2014, 15:06

End link is very easy, you only need a couple of suitable wrenches. Spring seat requires strut assembly removal and some special tools for spring compression and loosing cross nut, but you can actually check spring seats without any removal. Just open the hood and look closely at top of spring seat, where it comes to bearing plate.