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

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Old Jan 22nd, 2015, 22:54   #1
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Default Tortoise on my dashboard - what the hec is going on?

Ok, let's call a spade a spade.....

I have an R-design XC60 with the new D4 VEA engine. Tonight I also have a tortoise image on my central driver's dash with the message 'reduced engine performance'. Yellow engine block light is also illuminated with the word 'check'.

Why?

And, while you're about it......is there an alternative message 'enhanced engine performance' with a picture of a leopard?

I'm thinking we might need to give the car a good blast up the A68 tomorrow since it's been cold recently and she's only been dithering around town with Mrs A. Or Mrs A will need to pay a visit to those 'nice people' at Clelands Volvo in Galashiels.

Any thoughts (is it the return of the dreaded EGR, although that came with a different message 6,000 miles ago).

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What colour is the tortoise and does it smell?
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What colour is the tortoise and does it smell?
Yellow, and it doesn't look too healthy. I thought tortoise hibernate in the winter?

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from recent threads EGR / DPF.
Hopefully not but a good blast sounds like a good idea.
Watch out for the old deer!
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That looks like it's just a generic message, and could be a number of things.

You need to take it in and I guess there will be a code logged they can read that will tell what the problem is
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that looks like it's just a generic message, and could be a number of things.

You need to take it in and i guess there will be a code logged they can read that will tell what the problem is
kerching !!! That'll be a hundred pounds please thankyou very much.
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What does it say in the manual?
Generally a yellow static light is a warning to get it looked asap whereas a flashing light means Stop Immediately but either way I would consult the manual and then the dealer! Hopefully it's nothing serious.....
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Might pay you to ring volvo b4 you go on your blast up the A road though,and just as a thought have you checked fluid levels ? Oil etc?

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?
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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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