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Tortoise on my dashboard - what the hec is going on?

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Old Jan 22nd, 2015, 23:48   #11
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I have to say I like your stance on said tortoise and I'm with you on the Jag (to be fair im so tempted to get rid of my XC and go back to ze Germans but my good lady keeps saying no!).
Best of luck either way.....
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Old Jan 23rd, 2015, 00:01   #12
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Default Off topic - ....compared to my XC90?

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I see you had an XC90 before and just slightly off topic how do you like your Xc60 in comparison, better or regret changing it?
Since you ask...

Like
  • handling (XC90 was like a bus on these Scottish Borders' country roads)
  • less tiresome when in Edinburgh city centre & in towns
  • longer first gear (ours is manual because Mrs A insisted - XC90 had very short first gear due to absence of low ratio box)
  • engine (our XC90 was a 2006 185bhp D5)
  • refinement
  • amazing ICE - I actually love driving alone because the sound system is fabulous when set to driver only
  • fuel economy (VEA engine is great for that)
  • modern cabin
  • heated windscreen (not an option on XC90 which is weird for a Volvo - our previous Ford Galaxy had it for goodness sake)

Don't Like
  • less room (the XC90 is huge and we didn't even need to think about the luggage, just pile it in there)
  • FWD (XC90 was AWD and, on balance, if I could have got the VEA D4 with AWD I would have taken it. Life's a compromise for me and my wallet)
  • overcomplicated controls
  • slightly lower ride height & miss that full-size SUV feeling (but that's the price of gaining the handling)
  • the memory seat doesn't start moving until you open the driver's door - crikey that's poor. I wait and get wet while Mrs A's seat position (nose almost touching the window) slowly moves backwards. It doesn't help a marriage when, every day, you spend 15secs contemplating why your wife drives the car in such a way that you have to stand in the rain and wait to get in! And then, when you do.........you have to adjust the rear-view mirror as a female-of-the-species follow-though body blow

As for reliability.....sadly neither the XC90 nor this XC60 acquit themselves very well. The track record of the XC90 was not good but we still loved her (some women are like that - expensive but great to have as company!). Her little sister, our XC60, has similar traits we think

This one will be moved on between 3-4yrs old. All that technology doesn't bode well. We held on to the XC90 for 8yrs, thinking that lots of love and dealer attention would mean trouble free motoring because it was a Volvo. But it was not to be and the final straw was a rumbling rear wheel bearing all the way back from Italy in Summer 2013 - goodbye XC90. Got £9.3k for her on eBay though - 8yrs old, 4mths MOT and 115k on the clock. Pretty good when the dealer offered £4.5k!

Ah well, such is life. Carting tomorrow night which will be a different experience (not with the Volvo!).

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@Arianne

Does the car drive as normal?

Check all hoses are secure. Could simply be a loose hose.

I had an issue where the car went into limp mode from time to time and some hose (don't ask me what!) had come loose/wasn't sealed right.

Have you lifted the bonnet and had a ganders?

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EDIT: had a ganders in here and 'throttle body' and 'throttle module' crops up

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Does the car drive as normal?

.......

Have you lifted the bonnet and had a ganders?

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EDIT: had a ganders in here and 'throttle body' and 'throttle module' crops up
It's dark. And it's cold. We only got back home at 9:40pm. I leave for work in the dark and return home in the dark (that's what it's like in Scotland which is why there's fewer folk living here compared to the Sunny South).

And (this is the big, big reason)........the car's list was £38.5k when I bought it in March '14 and I don't think it should be me have a dig around in the dark, cold January night.

I am happy to do so on the 2008 Vectra - fixed a broken passenger windscreen wiper arm at lunchtime today with some elasticated rope and a guy on YouTube coaching me (the Vectra being Luton's equivalent of a Toyota Hilux).

BTW, how do you lift the bonnet?

(just joking!)

Thanks volvorocks, I mean it.

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And (this is the big, big reason)........the car's list was £38.5k when I bought it in March '14 and I don't think it should be me have a dig around in the dark, cold January night.
Agree entirely!!

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BTW, how do you lift the bonnet?
LOL...I actually pondered that on a Focus some years ago, before realising/working out it was key operated....!!

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Old Jan 23rd, 2015, 00:29   #16
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Goodnight folks!

Update will follow after Mrs A's visit to the dealership. We'll also update you on the lovely coffee and free newspapers offered by Mr Cleland. We'll also inform you of how many tortoise he is looking after these days.

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When the tortoise is fixed does the graphic change to a hare for the next couple of start ups just to prove a point? Maybe a suggestion to Volvo when this has been sorted.
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My previous car- a Toyota hybrid, clearly pitched at economy over everything else - would display the single word "Excellent" in the dash after a particularly economical drive.
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Could have been worse, they could have opted for a snail instead of a tortoise.
Imagine trying to clean up the trails across the dash and seats.
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Could have been worse, they could have opted for a snail instead of a tortoise.
Imagine trying to clean up the trails across the dash and seats.
Isn't that the light for when it goes slowly and drips oil?
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