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|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 004019690 | Incident Date: Sep, 08 2004 |
| Consumer's City: FORT COLLINS | Consumer's State: CO |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Volvo Car USA, LLC |
| Model Name: V70XC | Model Year: 2000 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Vehicle speed control |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: YV1LZ56D8Y2 | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: May, 10 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Jul, 06 2000 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 0 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: My son's 2000 volvo 70 xc failed due to a failied electronic throttle module (etm). as a retired engineer i wanted to know why. i have found that it is a common complaint for the 1999, 2000 and 2001 series 60,70 and 80 models at the time of failure the car first exhibits hesitation, surging and erattic idle. at failure it goes into a limp- home mode of 20 miles per hour or stalls. from your web site i have found 101 cases listed for this failure. i have performed failure analysis on 5 units and have identified the problem. it is the wearing out of the throttle position sensor potentiomenter. volvo has consistantly kept the dealers and customers in the dark and blamed the problem on a dirty throttle bore and other erroneous causes. other than the cost of repairs, about $1000, is the realization that the replacement part is of the same design and it too will fail, one correspondent reporting 3 failures of the same type. the failure appears to be accelerated by heat, thus northern tier states have fewer failures than southern states. there are about 860,000 cars world wide with over 250,000 in the us. i estimate that more than 80% will fail, one or moer times, within 100,000 miles. to date no one has been injureid or killed that we know of but stalling on a busy freeway is a dangerous situation. i can send you my reports or you can pick them up off of the internet. i also have failed parts for your examination. please have an investigator contact me. with a direct e-mail address for the investigator i can send my data. don willson, 970 266-9797, donwillson@comcast.net |
