Need Advice from Volvo Experts

He means American review sites will never favour a diesel because Americans tend to dislike diesel engines.

jamesinc;104745 wroteHe means American review sites will never favour a diesel because Americans tend to dislike diesel engines.

thanks for making the obvious obvious while neglecting the fact that it was a worldwide review and that is before getting to the recall data and australian sites. Bottom line is there is no empirical data to suggest that the 3.2 is "total crap" and that the D5 is adonis.

Don't bother replying I really couldn't care and the email notifications are really annoying.

And now, back to the studio...

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If only there was some way to turn them off?

shayne72;104744 wroteits a volvo, none of them are particularly a

Vee_Que;104742 wrote

shayne72;104730 wroteSo according to most reviews and the US news site the fact that they state that the 2008 3.2 aspirated is the most reliable XC90 model available with rock solid engine and transmission is total rubbish then...

The Americans don't use diesels either. .

Are we going to start growing up or should we just turn this into a holden v ford site. Seriously its a volvo and its an XC90 so at the end of the day its not going to be anything to rave about.

As a (semi-retired) Volvo master mechanic... I'll note that I spent on way way more hours working on 3.2's than v8's at a dealership that sold more v8's than 3.2's

Most of the customers never saw just how much shit I had to fix on every single service on the 3.2 under warranty
I nearly always fought for 3.2 cards because I could ALWAYS find something major on them that turned a (from flat rate perspective) money losing service into a full days work
When they went out of warranty they would come back once, get one massive bill and then be traded in on something else in warranty and the dealer would flog the 3.2 off at auction

The 6 speed auto in the XC90 is universally solid regardless of what engine is behind it
The 3.2 does not out right fail, it just munches itself to pieces taking along everything around it

Good XC90 pickings are getting slim as heck at the moment
INS is probably going to write off mine (economic) after the recent rear-ending by the rav4 (rav 4 turned out to be a write off as well as it cracked the engine block)

I am digging around for a nice v8 and finding not much... I may yet end up with a D5 again just because of availability

That's sad your xc will be written off, was it really bent that badly?

Yeah I checked the other day and the V8s are really thin on the ground! Happens I guess when they weren't sold for long and are a great car!

I'm glad I picked mine up when I did. Sad to hear yours is being written off. I thought the worst when Skippy jumped into the side of mine but I'll just need a respray down one side and a new mirror. Although the mirror alone was enough for the excess!!

Nice V70 for sale at car nation autos just saw the ad on gumtree car is in maidstone Victoria might be a good option for you.

We do the rego checks for our local volvo dealer and so far this year they have replaced 6 of the t6 engines due to various issues ranging from timing chain failure to excessive oil consumption