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Question about Haynes manuals for Volvos (re: 07 C70)

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Question about Haynes manuals for Volvos (re: 07 C70)

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I've been using a Haynes P80 manual for our 98 S70 and it's been fine. I mainly only use it for torque specs. But it's also informative to peruse it now and then, to get a feeling for how the car's put together. Reminds me of trying to work on cars twenty years ago. (And mostly failing!) A manual is great, but a manual + MVS, now that's some powerful knowledge there! :wink:

My cousin just picked up a 07 C60 and, of course, there is no Haynes or Chilton manual for this car. I recently replaced his shocks and didn't have torque values for any of the bolts. I put them on to the torque it took to take them off and used Loctite, of course, but for anything else moving ahead I'd like to have proper torque specs. Especially since I'll be doing his brakes and suspension components from here on out.

These are the manuals currently available for newer, non-P80 Volvos on Amazon:

(04-08) S40/V50 https://www.amazon.com/Service-Repair-M ... lvo+haynes,

(00-09) S60 https://www.amazon.com/Petrol-Diesel-Se ... lvo+haynes,

and the (00-07) V70/S80 https://www.amazon.com/Volvo-V70-Servic ... lvo+haynes.

Which one of these is "most" similar to an 07 C70 T5? As always, many thanks everyone!
Retired:
1998 Volvo S70, N/A, 5-speed, 187K
2007 Volvo S40, 2.4i, 5-speed, 121K
2015 Volvo S60, T5, 85K

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