| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 004310061 | Incident Date: Apr, 06 2004 |
| Consumer's City: TIGARD | Consumer's State: OR |
| 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#: YV1LZ56DXY2 | Date added to File: May, 25 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Nov, 27 2004 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Feb, 11 2004 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 5 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Etm module failed on the freeway and i had to make an emergency stop on the freeway at night. after several minutes the car was able to startup again. when i took the car in for repair, they did not tell me that this was a common problem with this model of volvo and i ended up paying $128 dollars for bogus troubleshooting and no problem found. then less than 4 days later, the car died again, but this time i was lucky and it died on a side street. i looked up the problem on the internet and found quite a few articles of people who had a similar problem. upon driving my car into the dealership, it died and i had to coast the car down 3 hillside blocks and into the dealership. another $50 dollars was charged to me for doing the warranty work and the total cost to replace the throttle module was $723.67. i am very lucky to have an extended warranty on this vehicle, but for anyone that does not, they are being totally screwed by volvo and its dealers because they have not stepped up and replaced this potentially dangerous module that can leave you stranded. it also appears that the particular dealership that i took my car to, made troubleshooting money on me even though nobody would touch my questions regarding the problem when i showed them 3 pages of articles that i found on the web regarding the particular problem and user groups that talked about complaining to volvo.*ak |
