S60, V70, and XC70 reliability -- better info

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Recently enhanced the related repair history survey so that it can (optionally) be used as a personal car maintenance record.

As always, more participants would be helpful. Updated Car Reliability Survey results in May.

Car reliability research

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We've updated the results for the S60, V70, and XC70 to include owner experiences through March 31, 2010. In terms of repair trips per 100 cars per year:

2007: 29, better than average, small sample size

2006: 34, better than average--separating out the R's made a big difference for 2004-2007

2006 R: 145, worse than average, small sample size

2005: 67, about average

2004: 78, about average

2004 R: 155, worse than average, small sample size

2003: 100, about average, small sample size

2002: 207, worse than average

2001: 178, worse than average

We have two additional statistics, "Nada-odds" and "Lemon-odds," to indicate the percentage of cars with no repairs in the past year and those that required 3+ trips to the repair shop.

For the 2004, the first is 43, while the latter is 3.

We don't have these for other years yet, though, because they require a larger number of responses.

A big thank you, once again, to this forum and everyone who has been helping. We'll have further updates in August and November. With more participants, we could provide all three stats for all model years. So if you haven't already signed up to participate, please consider doing so.

Volvo S60 reliability comparisons

Volvo V70 / XC70 reliability comparisons

(Same results both pages for these model years.)

[mkaresh]

In a couple of weeks we'll start previewing the next set of results to participants.

More participants = better information.

Car reliability research

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Updated stats in about two weeks. We're now posting separate results for the R, splitting the sample, so additional participants would be especially helpful.

To help provide better information for your year:

Car reliability research

[mkaresh]

We've updated the results for the S60, V70, and XC70 to include owner experiences through June 30, 2010.

Other sources of car reliability information won't cover the more recent months until the summer or even fall of next year.

Repair frequencies, in terms of repair trips per 100 cars per year:

2007: 24, better than average

2006: 49, better than average--separating out the R's made a big difference for 2004-2007

2006 R: 128, worse than average, small sample size

2005: 71, about average

2004: 79, about average

2004 R: 93, about average, small sample size

2003: 141, worse than average

2002: 203, worse than average

2001: 163, worse than average

We have two additional statistics, "Nada-odds" and "Lemon-odds," to indicate the percentage of cars with no repairs in the past year and those that required 3+ trips to the repair shop.

The percentage with no repairs is about 29 for the 2001 and 41 for the 2004, while the percentage of lemons is about 7 for the 2001 and less than one for the 2004.

We don't have these for other years yet, though, because they require a larger number of responses.

Thank you, once again, everyone who has been helping. We'll have further updates in November and February. With more participants, we could provide all three stats for all model years. To see how competitors compare, and to sign up to help: So if you haven't already signed up to participate, please consider doing so.

Volvo S60 reliability comparisons

Volvo V70 / XC70 reliability comparisons

[mkaresh]

Updated reliability stats next month.

As always, the more owners participate, the better the information we can provide to everyone.

Car reliability research

[mkaresh]

We've updated the results for the S60, V70, and XC70 to include owner experiences through September 30, 2010. Other sources of car reliability information won't cover the months since April until the summer or even fall of next year.

Repair frequencies, in terms of repair trips per 100 cars per year:

2007: 34, better than average

2006: 56, better than average--separating out the R's made a big difference for 2004-2007

2006 R: 129, worse than average, small sample size

2005: 59, better than average

2004: 78, about average

2004 R: 117, about average, small sample size

2003: 148, worse than average

2002: 157, worse than average

2001: 163, worse than average

We have two additional statistics, "Nada-odds" and "Lemon-odds," to indicate the percentage of cars with no repairs in the past year and those that required 3+ trips to the repair shop.

The percentage with no repairs is about 26 for the 2001 and 51 for the 2004, while the percentage of lemons is about 15 for the 2001 and less than one for the 2004.

Volvo S60 Lemon-odds and Nada-odds

We don't have these for other years yet, though, because they require a larger number of responses.

Thank you, once again, everyone who has been helping. We'll have further updates in February and May. With more participants, we could provide all three stats for all model years.

To see how competitors compare, and to sign up to help:

Volvo S60 reliability ratings and comparisons

Volvo V70 / XC70 reliability ratings and comparisons

Same results for 2001-2007 model years on both pages.

[mkaresh]

We have some new pages that display all reported repairs by problem area:

2004 Volvo S60 problem reports

From this page it's possible to select a different model year or specify a problem area.

[mkaresh]

We've updated the results for the S60, V70, and XC70 to include owner experiences through December 31, 2010. Other sources of car reliability information won't cover the months since last April until the summer or even fall of this year.

Repair frequencies, in terms of repair trips per 100 cars per year:

2007: 52, about average

2006: 55, better than average

2006 R: 92, about average, small sample size

2005: 79, about average

2004: 98, about average

2004 R: 119, about average, small sample size

2003: 178, worse than average

2002: 141, about average, but close to "worse than average"

2001: 181, worse than average

We have two additional statistics, "Nada-odds" and "Lemon-odds," to indicate the percentage of cars with no repairs in the past year and those that required 3+ trips to the repair shop.

The percentage with no repairs is about 33 for the 2001 and 35 for the 2004, while the percentage of lemons is about 17 for the 2001 and about 3 for the 2004.

We don't have these for other years yet, though, because they require a larger number of responses.

Volvo S60 Lemon-odds and Nada-odds

Thank you, once again, to this forum and everyone who has been helping. We'll have further updates in May and August. With more participants, we could provide all three stats for all model years.

To see how competitors compare, and to sign up to help:

Volvo S60 reliability ratings and comparisons

[mkaresh]

We've updated our car reliability stats for the S60, V70, and XC70 to include owner experiences through March 31, 2011.

Repair frequencies, in terms of repair trips per 100 cars per year:

2007: 50, better than average

2006: 54, better than average

2006 R: 92, about average, small sample size

2005: 97, about average

2004: 88, about average

2004 R: 136, worse than average

2003: 171, worse than average

2002: 140, about average, but close to "worse than average"

2001: 182, worse than average

We have two additional statistics, "Nada-odds" and "Lemon-odds," to indicate the percentage of cars with no repairs in the past year and those that required 3+ trips to the repair shop.

2004: 39, about 5

2001: 35, 21

Volvo S60 Lemon-odds and Nada-odds

Thank you, once again, everyone who has been helping. We'll have further updates in August and November. With more participants, we could provide all three stats for all model years.

To see how competitors compare, and to sign up to help improve this information:

Volvo S60 reliability ratings and comparisons

Volvo V70 / XC70 reliability ratings and comparisons

Similar results both pages.