V50 T5 - AWD or not?
Hi all,
after some careful consideration on what to have as my next car I am settled on getting a V50 T5.
I am in LHD side of Europe and there seems to be an equal selection between FWD and AWD T5's. I cannot really make up my mind on which to choose.
Reading up on the spline sleeve and haldex issues of the XC90's I am a bit worried now.. Is the AWD V50 affected as well? Does it share the parts with the XC90? I would not mind FWD either, but I do use the car in Austria in the winter as well and also plan on modding it a bit, so AWD could help putting the power down and managing snowy situations (not mandatory by any means though, I was using there various FWD and RWD cars, and they were OK).
Regarding fettling with the car, I decided on the block mod first, everything else can come afterwards (bigger IC, exhaust, clutch and remap first). Spent some time reading through threads, but could not find much if AWD parts and the issues between the bigger models are shared as well.
So thank you for your help in advance!
Kind regards from Hungary
pitesy
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