Some questions about s40 d5 I'm considering to get

[Benholder90]

Thanks everyone for the replies much appreciated .. still thinking to go and see it today .. I'm impatient to wait for another one to come up .. and may not find another one at this price .. this one is a cat c has been damaged at some point but looks all ok

Another one has just come up it's a 2008 d5 sport 187k miles dealer listing as Px to clear for 1495

What everyone think about this? Mileage Is pretty high right

[XC90Mk1]

Originally Posted by Benholder90

Thanks everyone for the replies much appreciated .. still thinking to go and see it today .. I'm impatient to wait for another one to come up .. and may not find another one at this price .. this one is a cat c has been damaged at some point but looks all ok

Another one has just come up it's a 2008 d5 sport 187k miles dealer listing as Px to clear for 1495

What everyone think about this? Mileage Is pretty high right

All cat c cars are described as having had ‘a nock on the door - stupid insurance companies lol’.

Truth be told if you arrange an inspection it has probably been smacked really hard and will be easy for a pro to show the damage.

Cat c is a much more serious category than. At d. Unless you are a professional and really know what you are doing walk away.

[Benholder90]

Originally Posted by XC90Mk1

All cat c cars are described as having had ‘a nock on the door - stupid insurance companies lol’.

Truth be told if you arrange an inspection it has probably been smacked really hard and will be easy for a pro to show the damage.

Cat c is a much more serious category than. At d. Unless you are a professional and really know what you are doing walk away.

Well yes I'm not a professional.. the owner says hes had it for a year and got it from.a family friend who had it for 2 years before that and the owner before had an accident

Hes sent me few videos of it and it seems fine .. thata why I was onsidering to go and see it

[Yobbo]

Originally Posted by Benholder90

I didn't understand this could you explain?

They usually aren't expensive, but Volvo seem to have capitalised on the fact that these item are a known failing point on the P1 platform 5-cylinder engines.
Aftermarket are hit and miss in terms of vibration and in my experience it is always the longer R/H side driveshaft. I believe - and this is my theory, to be something to do with the weight of the components used.

I'm running motorsport driveshafts on mine which vibrate marginally at around 20mph before smoothing out.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Yobbo

They usually aren't expensive, but Volvo seem to have capitalised on the fact that these item are a known failing point on the P1 platform 5-cylinder engines.
Aftermarket are hit and miss in terms of vibration and in my experience it is always the longer R/H side driveshaft. I believe - and this is my theory, to be something to do with the weight of the components used.

I'm running motorsport driveshafts on mine which vibrate marginally at around 20mph before smoothing out.

I don't think they are capitalising on it , they are the very best drive shafts , they have cost about £350 each for all the models since the 850 came out , so you could say with inflation they have been getting less costly in real terms as the years go by . i wouldn't say the S40/V40/C30 D5 ( or any other engine ) suffer from known driveshaft failures unless they have been run with a damaged boot clip and let water in . There was a faulty batch of front driveshafts which rattled back when the XC60 was launched but apart from that Volvo driveshafts are very reliable .

[Yobbo]

Originally Posted by Clan

I don't think they are capitalising on it , they are the very best drive shafts , they have cost about £350 each for all the models since the 850 came out , so you could say with inflation they have been getting less costly in real terms as the years go by . i wouldn't say the S40/V40/C30 D5 ( or any other engine ) suffer from known driveshaft failures unless they have been run with a damaged boot clip and let water in . There was a faulty batch of front driveshafts which rattled back when the XC60 was launched but apart from that Volvo driveshafts are very reliable .

I'm not insinuating a conspiracy though it very much seems like one!
Same with the corresponding Ford Focus ST225 shafts which are identical to the Volvo P1 platform 5-cylinder manual transmissions cars - they are or at least we're produced by GKN.

In my experience and that echoed by countless others in Volvo and Ford circles, the shafts do suffer premature failure exempt of contamination from split CV boots. The common theme is the offside inner-CV going and affects more so cars which are lower and or running higher power than standard.
Again to remark on the wider collective - the genuine shafts albeit a relative fortunate for what they are, are agreed to be the highest quality.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Yobbo

I'm not insinuating a conspiracy though it very much seems like one!
Same with the corresponding Ford Focus ST225 shafts which are identical to the Volvo P1 platform 5-cylinder manual transmissions cars - they are or at least we're produced by GKN.

In my experience and that echoed by countless others in Volvo and Ford circles, the shafts do suffer premature failure exempt of contamination from split CV boots. The common theme is the offside inner-CV going and affects more so cars which are lower and or running higher power than standard.
Again to remark on the wider collective - the genuine shafts albeit a relative fortunate for what they are, are agreed to be the highest quality.

In my experience working with them on a daily basis since they were launched in 2004 , drive shaft wear is almost unheard of , even after 100.000 miles , maybe you give yours a hard time .

I would not be surprised if the Ford driveshafts were more expensive , Ford people come to volvo to buy certain parts as they are cheaper !

[Yobbo]

Originally Posted by Clan

In my experience working with them on a daily basis since they were launched in 2004 , drive shaft wear is almost unheard of , even after 100.000 miles , maybe you give yours a hard time .

I would not be surprised if the Ford driveshafts were more expensive , Ford people come to volvo to buy certain parts as they are cheaper !

Not to further digress the original topic of the thread, and in respect your experience as a Volvo mechanic - the driveshafts are known for failing from what I have experienced and observed, it is well acknowledged in the Volvo and Ford community... This is prevalent on the C30/S40/V50/C70 - T5/D5/D4/D3 and Focus ST225 using the M66 box when the car is fitted with sports lowering springs/coilovers and running higher than standard power.

I try not to give mine a hard time.