Volvo's dead
 

Got to the bottom of the road this morning and she died :sad::sad::sad:

Ended up having to push her to the side and call the RAC. Just waiting for them to turn up. Tell you what she's a chuffing heavy lump to push too :shocked::shocked:

Not been my week for cars this week. Never mind I might get a Corsa on loan for a few days again :wall:

Join the club mate, trown the cambelt on the Mazda :wall:

Find out later if we have killed the valves :grr:

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Sorry to hear Mart and Big Hairy Smurf-like Character :p

Not been my week either.Spent £500 at Powerflow,only for it to blow like fook from downpipe to whats left of hacked and welded connector Audi pipe that was!!

Runs shite,idles high.

Wanna kick the thing.

Just like owning a 480 Turbo again......which takes us back to Volvo!

:wall::finger:

sorry to hear your bad luck fellow guy's

Seems like something has let go big time in the engine so she's gone off to Warrington. Thankfully for me it all gets chalked off to the company and lease firm. I do moan about the tax I have to pay now on the thing now and again but at the moment it all seems worth it. Just hanging around now to see what turns up on the doorstep to fill her shoes for a couple of weeks.

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Summits let go,says Mart,as if he doesnt rag the roof off it largeington stlyieeee!

Hope its a Mini Metro Mart,with the walnut gearknob Lynn negotiated for you.

:p

"Sommats let go" says Emjay... pheasants revenge mate. :)

thats not good on a 56 plate .....

in the last week we have had a gearbox fail (6 years old) a hyd. pump fail (2 yeras old ) and possibly another gearbox (4 yeras old ) not good for low mileage coaches the highest is 400,000 km !!

Glad its not just me having problems, most reliable car in the family at the moment is Lynns 97' A4 TDI, trouble free and still chugging around at 50mpg and 128k miles ( touch wood ).

Managements '96 A4 TDI is behaving at the moment it did need the aircon regassing but other wise fine ." touches wood" 182,000 miles

just taken delivery from National. A 58K plate Vectra "design" (whatever that is) in black. Someones tried to give a lovely go faster stripe all the way down the drivers side with a key :shocked:

To be fair Lynns A4 needs regassing but in this country the times you need it at 100% efficiency are few and far between so have not bothered...

That was my thougts till a couple of weeks ago and the ear bending i got from management because it was not working

Sorry for everyones troubles. Yuck.

Bloomin 'eck lads! Evreyone's in the poo!

Sorry to hear about the volley Emjay! Hope it's nothing too serious!

I dearnt say the 90, Golf and A6 all OK for a chnage!!!!! I'm worried now!!!

quick...somebody .............touch wood quick. ( not that type of wood either Groomy)

I have just completed a 4 hour + round trip in the Vectra Design.

I have never driven such a bag of shite in all my life. Fighting to keep it in a straight line at any speed, absolutely bog all power, shit wheezy engine.

Why the hell anyone would want a Vectra is beyond me. Absolute pants of a car

I thought the same about a zafira i drove on arun last year very much a car for the masses no refinment etc

Ive got a mk5 golf tdi as a company car. Its very well specd but I think its cack.

I don't drive it at weekends as its totaly souless.

Update from the Volvo dealer, car needs a new cylinder head. They are not sure what has happened but have ordered one in. Thankfully all covered under warranty but at 55 thousand miles that must be a first.

At least I only have this Vectra until friday now

Its your driving mate!:finger:

A customer with a 56 plate lexus 200 that has not done a lot of miles is in having a full engine rebuild....:wierdo:

They just dont build em like they used to. :)

Turbo on one of our ovlov coaches has just snapped in half 160,000 km, better than that a Scania one went in less than 50,000 miles

I'm glad the Volvo is still under warranty Emjay. A cylinder head job runs into real money.
Still a gross inconvenience, rented cars, trips to and from rental and mechanic with a 2nd person driving a 2nd car. Shenanigans.

I say, No more monkeys, send me the organ grinder !

picked the Volvo up tonite..ah the joys of a big torquey 2.5 five pot diesel

bliss in 5 pot heaven again :rock::rock:

I hear you! My V70 2,4D 163 died in an acident 3 weeks ago:nonod: - But next week I will have a black V70 D5 185 instead:D

Im not sure if I can wait:cool:

Well today I think I blew the turbo, less than 4 weeks after shagging the cylinder head.

Coming home from Southport, hitting the M6, dropped a gear to get her skirts up and lost a shed of power. Warning light came on telling me to get her in to a dealership urgently. She won't pull above 2.5K revs when she normally has plenty of torque.

Oh bugger, another Vectra waits for me :cryin:

So relaible these ovlovs sine the last turbo broke we have had a gearbox ecu fail, a compressor destroy itself ,allowing it parts to be sucked up into turbo so destroying that and the intercooler, another has a bizzar lecy fault where by it will only run for about 5 secs then stall been with the dealers 3 weeks now no sign of it returning yet, suspension failure on another and finaly for this month exhaust manifold gaskets not bad for coaches that have done less than 180,000km and are only just 4 years old !!

And still worth over a 100 grand!!

in parts.... maybe....

Jesus Ian you want to see the prices of new and recent Coaches. But I get the irony!!:nod:

Do Volvo Commercial do NLA...?

Bet that's quaint if they do...

Probably just Audi.

Might be as simple as a boost leak or hose popped off, have you dared to open the bonnet to look?!!

It's 09:30 Emjay... Scrappy's been open an hour now... I assume it's gone....

It's a company car Dave....you just don't open the bonnet yourself on a company car. Shame on you.

yes Dave, behave yourself :moon:.

It's booked in for later today and I'm getting a courtesy car so no bloody Vauxhall this time round.

Moneypit is sat on the drive awaiting replacement clutch Master and slave cylinders :cryin:
There surely can't be much left to replace on her......or will it be like the Forth bridge of once you've finished, you start again...?????:wall: