Tyre maintenance For AWD XC60

[Clan]

Originally Posted by RoyMacDonald

Clan, it has this in my XC60 2015 handbook. Page 316

Amazing , i wonder who actualy wrote that paragraph ? It doesnt read well , and why are they quoting km in a UK Handbook ( Or on your sensus screen ) ?
Just about every volvo i have seen has tyre tread depths differing by a lot more than 1 mm .. It just isn't practical to keep moving wheels around everytime the tyre tread depths differ by more than 1 mm especialy with FWD versions ! Who is going to keep measuring them monthly and who is going to pay to have wheels swapped around a couple of times or more between services ? People generaly these days pay no attention whatsoever to their tyres , They don't check pressures from one service to another , and drive around with cords exposed on the edges ...
It certainly isnt a routine maintenance item to swap wheels around.
To be honest new tyres are needed just about every service with 18000 mile intervals , That paragraph just doesnt make sense ..

I really despair with volvo these days sometimes !

[RoyMacDonald]

Originally Posted by Clan

Amazing , i wonder who actualy wrote that paragraph ? It doesnt read well , and why are they quoting km in a UK Handbook ( Or on your sensus screen ) ?
Just about every volvo i have seen has tyre tread depths differing by a lot more than 1 mm .. It just isn't practical to keep moving wheels around everytime the tyre tread depths differ by more than 1 mm especialy with FWD versions ! Who is going to keep measuring them monthly and who is going to pay to have wheels swapped around a couple of times or more between services ? People generaly these days pay no attention whatsoever to their tyres , They don't check pressures from one service to another , and drive around with cords exposed on the edges ...
It certainly isnt a routine maintenance item to swap wheels around.
To be honest new tyres are needed just about every service with 18000 mile intervals , That paragraph just doesnt make sense ..

I really despair with volvo these days sometimes !

To be fair Clan, my XC90 has never varied by as much as a millimetre when I've had mine swapped around at every service, however I only do 4 or 5k a year.

I haven't had enough experience with the XC60 to know what that's like though.

I agree there are some odd instructions in the handbook. This one takes the biscuit.

It says you can only check the oil level with the engine cold and on level ground with the ignition on. But at an oil change after draining and refilling, to drive 35K before the electronic oil level indicator will work. (So how do you know it has the correct amount in the first place and how can you check when the EOLI wont work because the oil will be hot?)

It also says to check the oil level regularly during long journeys under adverse conditions like high speed or towing etc. (So how do you do that with a very hot engine oil when the EOIL won't work?)

Not having a proper dipstick seems barking mad to me.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by RoyMacDonald

To be fair Clan, my XC90 has never varied by as much as a millimetre when I've had mine swapped around at every service, however I only do 4 or 5k a year.

I haven't had enough experience with the XC60 to know what that's like though.

I agree there are some odd instructions in the handbook. This one takes the biscuit.

It says you can only check the oil level with the engine cold and on level ground with the ignition on. But at an oil change after draining and refilling, to drive 35K before the electronic oil level indicator will work. (So how do you know it has the correct amount in the first place and how can you check when the EOLI wont work because the oil will be hot?)

It also says to check the oil level regularly during long journeys under adverse conditions like high speed or towing etc. (So how do you do that with a very hot engine oil when the EOIL won't work?)

Not having a proper dipstick seems barking mad to me.

Regarding the oil .. you have to put the correct amount in which is 5.7 litres for teh 5 cyl diesel or 5.9 on the twin turbo engines .. There is a dipstick but awkward to get to down on the edge of the sump . you could always fit the old dipstick and tube like the police do :-)

[RoyMacDonald]

Originally Posted by Clan

Regarding the oil .. you have to put the correct amount in which is 5.7 litres for teh 5 cyl diesel or 5.9 on the twin turbo engines .. There is a dipstick but awkward to get to down on the edge of the sump . you could always fit the old dipstick and tube like the police do :-)

That's very interesting Clan. How easy is it to fit the old tube etc. on the 2015 XC60? and what parts do I need?

Thanks.

Roy

[clintooo]

I have just rotated tyres on my wife's xc60. It's a 2010 T6. has 18" dunlop quatromaxx on it.

These are the second set, we have gotten 30,000kms out of them and I guess we will get maybe another 5k if we are lucky. I probably should have rotated them a bit earlier. The fronts were about 1mm off the wear strip, while the rears are at about 4mm. It's summer here (Perth Australia), so I figure I will change them over in autumn.

But it was quite noticeable how they have worn differently. both front and rear seem to have worn evenly though across the tyre. My old X5 would chop out the inner rears and I'd be lucky to get 15,000 out of them. so 30K seems ok by comparison. But the quatromaxx I think are a softer set of tyres, plus my wife likes to put the boot in when she drives (small car big engine is her selection criteria). So it makes sense that the fronts would wear a bit more.

[Gazdok]

Originally Posted by Clan

Amazing , i wonder who actualy wrote that paragraph ? It doesnt read well , and why are they quoting km in a UK Handbook ( Or on your sensus screen ) ?
Just about every volvo i have seen has tyre tread depths differing by a lot more than 1 mm .. It just isn't practical to keep moving wheels around everytime the tyre tread depths differ by more than 1 mm especialy with FWD versions ! Who is going to keep measuring them monthly and who is going to pay to have wheels swapped around a couple of times or more between services ? People generaly these days pay no attention whatsoever to their tyres , They don't check pressures from one service to another , and drive around with cords exposed on the edges ...
It certainly isnt a routine maintenance item to swap wheels around.
To be honest new tyres are needed just about every service with 18000 mile intervals , That paragraph just doesnt make sense ..

I really despair with volvo these days sometimes !

This advice in the handbook is not specific to AWD. It is general road safety advice.
It basically says that newer tyres should be on the rear as a car in tricky situations is easier to control with better tyres on the rear. Also with frequent use of RABs the outer - near side - will wear more and to even this out swap them around.
I have always swapped rotated tyres since going to a driver safety training - good stuff.