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Old May 19th, 2019, 09:34   #31
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You have the new 2.0 litre 4 cylinder engine all the previous talk about aux belts and tensioners does not apply to yours .

What you and anybody else with this later engine needs to know is that
The change interval has recently been revised by volvo .

It is now every 90000 miles or 5 years which ever comes first .
so you will need the cambelt and tensioner and idle roller changing and also the Aux belt and the tensioner shown in your picture .
Wow, didn't know that and recently had my 5th service at just under 90k and nothing said. Do you know what date this change was notified to dealers?
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Wow, didn't know that and recently had my 5th service at just under 90k and nothing said. Do you know what date this change was notified to dealers?
very recently , not sure of the exact date ...
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Popped into my main dealer to book my XC60 in for a belt change as a result of Clans info, and they were oblivious to the change in the belt replacement regime for the VEA engine until they looked up my car.
The change from 108k to 90k is not such a big deal but those who do low mileage will be totally oblivious the mammoth reduction from 10 years to 5 years particularly if not using the main dealer. The dealership and have not been instructed by Volvo to inform owners of relevant vehicles of this major time reduction but I did suggest that perhaps they should!
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Five years is a very low life span for such materials and I would have thought that with todays modern materials the life span would have increased.
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Five years is a very low life span for such materials and I would have thought that with todays modern materials the life span would have increased.
They have been doing fine for the last 6 years since launch i have not known of any failures . It would be interesting to know WHY they have done this ... Maybe just to ensure the problems they had with the D5 aux belt / tensioner from 2007 to 2012 never happen again ! or maybe the hard used police cars have had problems , their interval is down to 50000 miles ! Probably a change of more than once a year .. They won't have done it to generate more work for the workshops , they are more than flat out coping with the huge sales growth of recent years !
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You have the new 2.0 litre 4 cylinder engine all the previous talk about aux belts and tensioners does not apply to yours .

What you and anybody else with this later engine needs to know is that
The change interval has recently been revised by volvo .

It is now every 90000 miles or 5 years which ever comes first .
so you will need the cambelt and tensioner and idle roller changing and also the Aux belt and the tensioner shown in your picture .
Will he?

He might have the AWD, which will therefore be the 2.4 5-pot, like mine.

Just a thought.

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Will he?

He might have the AWD, which will therefore be the 2.4 5-pot, like mine.

Just a thought.

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The 5 cylinder doesn't use that Tensioner in his picture ...
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Will he?

He might have the AWD, which will therefore be the 2.4 5-pot, like mine.

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I believe Clans advice was based on a picture of the posters tensioner mechanism which I assume was engine specific to the VEA 2ltr and not the 5 pot.
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You have the new 2.0 litre 4 cylinder engine all the previous talk about aux belts and tensioners does not apply to yours .

What you and anybody else with this later engine needs to know is that
The change interval has recently been revised by volvo .

It is now every 90000 miles or 5 years which ever comes first .
so you will need the cambelt and tensioner and idle roller changing and also the Aux belt and the tensioner shown in your picture .
5 years is a bit poor. Wonder what's caused them to half it. Just another thing to put me off the VEA. Got the cash in the bank waiting for the right XC60 but increasing consider a BMW instead.
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A correction :

The revised cambelt change interval to the VEA 2 litre engines from 2014 onwards is 90,000 miles or 10 years which ever comes first .

The 5 years figure i quoted above is for police/ambulance models
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