Having had a brief look it would appear there is a pipe section crimped each end at around £150 from Volvo, a further pipe at around £50 and in essence that is about it. Access may be obtained relatively easily via both the engine bay and for 1 pipe via removal or the drivers side wheel and wheel arch liner. I would have thought at worst you would be looking at 150 for pipe, 1.5 hour to replace (time to remove wheel and liner -no more) and 15 for power steering fluid. The power steering is self bleeding so .25 of an hour max. Can’t see why this would be more than 300 if that....
Also part of the pipe is routed around engine components. You need to have someone view the vehicle for a second opinion before you can conclude it is actually 600 of work. Does the car still drive?
Even if it does it is perhaps not safe to drive if the power steering has failed.
Stick the image of the leak on here, people should be able to say if the pipe is the same routing as theirs and if they have had it done before, also the part number and cost.
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