I think it may be an idea for Powershift owners to either try and find a Volvo dealer that is also a Ford dealer or just take it to a trusted Ford dealer.
The gearbox is, like most of the V50, from Ford. ( with input from PSA on the 1.6 and 2.0 diesel engines)
These gearboxes are a very new technology and perhaps some Volvo dealers are a little behind the times.
For example why do they find it so difficult to tell you when your cam elf should be changed and why do they think non Dpf cars have a Dpf.
My mates son shares a house with one of the engineers from Dunton and the Powershift box is certainly not a troublesome.
Much better than the DSG box for example which was always going wrong or the CVT rubbish as fitted to non Quattro Audis.
I wonder if the 90k mile box mentioned above had actually been properly maintained?
A few of my mates still work at AddLee and are very happy with the Powershift box and its reliability.
Apart from an occasional slight judder when pulling away that happens on some after 50/60k they are robust.
Any complicated piece of engineering will have a chance of failure.
Anybody that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
My advice find a specialist, main dealers are franchises not a bunch of expert engineers that started to sell cars.
Or give a local Ford dealer a go at fixing the issue, or at least diagnosing it.
If you got 100k out of a VW Sharon autobox you were considered lucky.
AddLee used to recon them anywhere between 80/90k with several ready to go on the shelf all the time.
They don't do this for the Powershift and didn't do it for the earlier autobox in the Galaxy.
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