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Nov 19th, 2017, 19:25 | #1 |
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Hello I’m new to the forum and would love to hear back from any one that can help. I have recently bought a v50 SE 2.0D and it’s a lovely car. I was driving along and I over took a slow driver but gave it some beans in 3rd gear, nothing crazy then popped it back into 5th when I got by. As I did that I took my foot off the throttle as I was going down a hill and when I got to the bottom I applied a little throttle. The car started speed up quicker than I was pressing the pedal, I weirdly put my foot on the clutch and the car was revving to the limiter which made me panic, so I shut the car off and rolled it to a stop. Started it back up and all was fine and I drove home. I thought the mats might have got stuck against the pedal some how, but I took it back out for a drive to see if it would happen again. And it did, but this time the throttle felt really different, like it had extended its press down if that makes sense. The pedal went further than before and as I pressed right down the car revved to the limiter. I was on an open dead road at this point and put it in to 5th to see if it would throttle it self all the way home haha but it didn’t, it stopped revving when I put it in to gear. I’m freaked out by this and don’t really want to drive the car again. I would love some feed back before I face the dreaded garage and the huge bill to go with it. Thanks in advance
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Nov 19th, 2017, 20:40 | #2 |
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I’ve been doing some reading online for internal and external oil leaks from turbo, I don’t see any oil leaks on the outside and symptoms for internal like large amounts of white smoke or lack of power isn’t what I’m getting. Just before it happened it pulled like a train when I over took the slow driver. Just want to add what I can to help any further replies thanks again
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Thanks again for replying. I will drain oil tomorrow morning. This might be a daft question but can the oil be reused? Or better off with fresh oil? It hasn’t been serviced that recently but had a new turbo about 20k miles ago. Seller did say they regularly changed oil, and tbh when I checked oil level it looked like a lot of oil. But I thought that was fine. I’ve had the car about 2 weeks now, wouldn’t it have shown any sign of too much oil before? I had noticed a few times when I put my foot down that it would boost very nicely but almost cut out and stop boosting around 3-3500 rpm. But I figure maybe the traction control had something to do with that
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I hope I haven’t inherited a problem, I know volvos can be expensive with repairs. I just checked the oil level again now, it seems to be very high. So I see a little knob and almost like two arrows to indicate full and low maybe? Anyway it’s way above that knob thing. So I should drain the oil and put back in 4.8 litres?
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