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Monroe shocks, will it fit?

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Old Jan 27th, 2020, 23:28   #1
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Default Monroe shocks, will it fit?

A little help please everyone, I have a 2008 XC70 sport with the active suspension.
I put those details into the Monroe site looking for replacement parts and it says they dont do them for my 185bhp version.
HOWEVER they do them for the 2008 185bhp V70 and every other Xc70 after 2009??????
Could this be a mistake? Would a shock absorber advertised for a 1 year younger model with different bhp work on my XC70?
I have attached screenshots of the monroe site to help explain what I mean.

Thanks for any help.
Volvo quoted me £570 for 1 shock absorber today Haha.
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Old Jan 28th, 2020, 00:08   #2
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I've had a look on the Skandix website for front shocks for your car, just for an example. Yours is the facelift shape (P3), the 2007 model was the older model (P2).

I don't think the shocks from the 2007 model (P2) will fit your 2008 (P3) facelift shape car. They appear to have different part numbers & the parts themselves look different between the older chassis & the newer.
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My bad, I worded the post wrong.
What I meant was will a shock absorber that seems to fit every other facelift version fit my type.
Its seems like they just accidentally left my spec off the list.
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Old Jan 28th, 2020, 00:40   #4
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The V70 had three versions, whereas the XC70 had two. Let me have a look on another handy parts website...
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Old Jan 28th, 2020, 00:58   #5
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Look at the years of manufacture.......2009, 2010, 2012 etc.
It's clearly a chart of what you call the P3, but for some reason they dont call it that.
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I think that's because the V70 had three versions, but the XC70 had two. I think people call the XC70 facelift a P3 because it basically looks the same as the third version of the V70.

This site might help you. Put your reg in, click 'Dampers' & take it from there. That should bring up the ones that fit your car & there's a variety of brands.

www.buycarparts.co.uk

The thing that's useful on that site is you can search for the original OE part number if you know it & it brings up the alternatives from other brands like Bilstein etc, but I can't find the active suspension ones for some reason.

I don't think the bhp makes a difference to be honest & so long as the year is after 2007 (Version 2 on Monroe site), they should be fine.

This site below for example, you can search from the year of your car onwards & the shocks look the exact same, so I don't think they changed the setup at all on the facelift shape.

https://www.partsforvolvosonline.com...Path=2_25_1198
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This is what I mean.
On that site if I put in my car details, it doesnt give me the option of any other electronically adjustable shock absorbers at all...
But if I change to any other Xc70 engine variant it will. And it will give me the same monroe part number of C2511L for every other configuration of P3, except for mine. That's why I think that maybe Monroe have accidentally left my variant out and for that reason it doesnt show up in any searches.
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That's a possibility & I'm not sure why they've done that. I don't think the bhp makes a difference, just make sure that they're for the facelift shape.

You could double check with Volvo to be 100% sure, but I doubt the bhp matters & it seems odd how the same part number fits other variants. I highly doubt they would have made one specific shock for the 185bhp version, but maybe I'm mistaken.
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Old Jan 31st, 2020, 22:38   #9
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Both those charts are for P3 (2007 onwards) models, and are therefore the correct generation for your 2008 XC70. I'm not sure why 07-09 D5 XC70's aren't listed, maybe it's an American website and maybe the D5's weren't sold there until the newer 205 bhp D5's came out in 09? Or if they were, maybe without the electronic suspension.

I'd say they should be suitable as, although there was a suspension refresh around 2009 (model-year 2010), they are listed for both the 08-10 and the 10 onwards T6's (so the suspension refresh doesn't appear to affect things with those), and they are listed for both the pre 09 D5 and the post 09 D5 V70's (so the different D5 versions doesn't appear to affect things there). A call to Monroe UK will probably confirm things. You could also ask you local Volvo parts desk for their part numbers for pre/post 09 D5 XC70's and if theirs are the same then it's highly likely the Monroe ones will be. The Volvo ones are made by Monroe (Tenneco) by the way, so should be the same parts, just different stickers & boxes.
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I think that's because the V70 had three versions, but the XC70 had two. I think people call the XC70 facelift a P3 because it basically looks the same as the third version of the V70.
Second version 07 onwards XC70's aren't just facelifts of the previous version made to look like a P3 V70, they are also P3's. So essentially the same cars, just higher suspension fitted to the XC.

Only VW do that sort of thing!

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