XC70 Air Con servicing requirements

Senalizacion · Post by **Senalizacion** » 03 Nov 2016, 05:23

Can anyone advise what the official Volvo servicing requirements are for the air conditioning compressor and the clutch(?) mechanism. I am in the UK and my local Volvo dealer advises that there are no formal servicing requirements.

Post by **pierremcalpine** » 30 Nov 2016, 08:44

For what its worth, my car has got 180,000km on it and I opted to replace my idler and tensioner and aux/drive belt early (before the recommended 240,000km scheduled service). I spoke to my dealership at length about this inquiring as to what else I should change if I was going to be doing this work. On the 3.2 engine (engine B6324) getting to the aux belt, etc is a bit of a pain. They recommended replacing the AC clutch at that mileage because they had seen several of them come defective in and around this mileage. Apparently when they fail they can sometimes take the compressor with them (not sure how but I took their advice and replaced...not a cheap part).