The Volvo thread

[fossyant]

The rubber mats are really excellent, as D says. 90% of the carp is caught by them

Rubber mats, ewwwww. All right for you muddy folks.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Rubber mats, ewwwww. All right for you muddy folks.

It's more that I had to lay off the petal-sprinklers and walk on the ground with the ordinary people.

 

[Drago]

Need to think about servicing mine in august.

Normally id domit myself, but my health and endurance hasn't been the best of late, in the next week or two I need to decide whether to domit myself, or get the bank to deliver a dumper truck loaded with gold bars to the dealer and get them to do it.

Its far too specialised and complex for an independent, and there are no XC specialists nearby so my choice stark - pain and misery physically, or pain and misery of the wallet.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Need to think about servicing mine in august.

Normally id domit myself, but my health and endurance hasn't been the best of late, in the next week or two I need to decide whether to domit myself, or get the bank to deliver a dumper truck loaded with gold bars to the dealer and get them to do it.

Its far too specialised and complex for an independent, and there are no XC specialists nearby so my choice stark - pain and misery physically, or pain and misery of the wallet.

Have a wander across to Bicester for the day and drop it at Horton Cars and luxuriate in one of their intergalactic-mileage loaners

Seriously though, they're very good, and Mrs D might like a saunter around Bicester Village, perhaps?

 

[figbat]

Or time it to coincide with something going on at Bicester Heritage.

 

[Drago]

Bicester heritage sounds good. I become pathologically enrwged when entering the shopping village which, incidentally, is the second biggest tourist attraction for foreign visitors in the UK. Weird.

 

[Hicky]

Well, I had to skip to page two to find the Volvo thread.....this will not do!
Anyhow, here's the old girl having been recently serviced/Mot'd(zero advisories for the second year in a row!). Now at 198K thanks to a 700(ish)mile bank hol weekend trip to sunny Cornwall with the Ms n daughter. Towing all this lot and running round for four days I filled up for the trek home and calculated it to be a keen 45.6mpg, the trip computer was lying through its teeth stating 54.6mpg haha however I'm happy with the return.
I shall give it a wash later and hoover it out to coincide with the annual checks

 

[Bonefish Blues]

D5 Euro 3 163bhp in Barents Blue perchance?

 

[Drago]

Ordered 4 x Hankook Kinergy 4S2's for the XC90. They seem to rate wel in reviews, and in a recent Autocar test were rankest above the Michelin Crossclimates in evey department except fresh snow, where they still did well.

So thats me £630 lighter

Much more of this spendy spendy and I'll have to get a job!

 

[Hicky]

D5 Euro 3 163bhp in Barents Blue perchance?

I don’t know the colour name however it is metallic blue, at least when it’s clean.
I purposely bought the latest E3 to avoid a dpf after a bad Peugeot experience.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I don’t know the colour name however it is metallic blue, at least when it’s clean.
I purposely bought the latest E3 to avoid a dpf after a bad Peugeot experience.

It's Barents - if auto it's identical to our old one

Graced with the lyingest fuel computer in Christendom, as you say!

 

[Drago]

Luckily the Volvo 5 pot DPF's are passive, no additives etc, so they don't go wrong on their own.

Other things can break and indorectly cause them to misbehave, or have the differential pressure sensors register a block when there is none (intake air leaks can cause this), but DPF's themselves are problem free.

 

[CXRAndy]

I had xc90 t8, sold it and went with Tesla, not looked back. Got rid of all our ICE vehicles

 

[figbat]

Luckily the Volvo 5 pot DPF's are passive, no additives etc, so they don't go wrong on their own.

Other things can break and indorectly cause them to misbehave, or have the differential pressure sensors register a block when there is none (intake air leaks can cause this), but DPF's themselves are problem free.

Errrrmmm… not quite. DPFs are prone to blocking by combusted oil ash, whether through excessive oil consumption or using the wrong oil (or simply being old and having seen long service). This can lead to repetitive active regen demands which can lead to fuel dilution of the oil not to mention increased fuel consumption. The additives you speak of (often generically called AdBlue, although this is a trade name) are associated with SCR systems, not DPFs.

 

[Hicky]

Well the system I experienced on a 09 plate 407 estate led me to believe they were a load of shite(the system not the car), the hdi in my old mans picasso too all the dodgy driving/lack of mechanical sympathy and zero checks you could throw at it and laughed.
In time when my car dies I’ll get a newer one probably but I’m hoping for another 100k out of it.