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Old Apr 3rd, 2019, 12:14   #11
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A fair summary to which I would add a very competent and surefooted tow car.
Forums whilst being enormously useful pools of knowledge and expertise, can also generate a certain amount of topical angst, often out of proportion to the actual facts.
The now extensively used VEA platform engine in my view is one such example. It is a relatively new and inherently good engine with a defect identified early on in its distribution and a free fix offered by Volvo. With 95K of heavy usage from new my VEA has been trouble with the free fix.
Of more concern to me is the poor service offered by many of the Volvo Main Dealers. I fortunately have an excellent one here in Taunton.
The new VEA 2 litre diesel is basically the old S/V40 cylinder block going back to 1997 … extensively modified of course .
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A fair summary to which I would add a very competent and surefooted tow car.
Forums whilst being enormously useful pools of knowledge and expertise, can also generate a certain amount of topical angst, often out of proportion to the actual facts.
The now extensively used VEA platform engine in my view is one such example. It is a relatively new and inherently good engine with a defect identified early on in its distribution and a free fix offered by Volvo. With 95K of heavy usage from new my VEA has been trouble free with the free fix.
Of more concern to me is the poor service offered by many of the Volvo Main Dealers. I fortunately have an excellent one here in Taunton.
Apologies couldn't edit for some reason and missed out the word free after trouble which was rather crucial to my post!
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Default SPA & CMA cars?

what are SPA & CMA cars.
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Depends on your criteria for 'best'... what do you need it to do?

The D4 VEA is a great engine that gives my V60 a sub-8 second 0-60, regularly shows over 60mpg on a run, meets the Euro6 standard and the annual VED is only £20. I can't imagine a D5 doing any of these things better, however I do worry about whether Volvo's improvements to the replacement VEA EGR coolers will mean that this problem will definitely go away. But at least the replacement coolers are free.
i mean the most reliable. im considering another xc60 therefore this is obviously important. i am not looking at the latest model though
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i mean the most reliable. im considering another xc60 therefore this is obviously important. i am not looking at the latest model though
Reliability would actually depend on how the particular example you buy has been looked after, and what work has already been done.

If you're getting an pre-SPA AWD XC60 then - to the best of my knowledge - it'll have the older 5-cylinder engine. Only the FWD models had the newer VEA 4-cylinder engines.

Do not be put off the VEA engines. The widely-reported EGR cooler issue is actually a pretty minor problem that doesn't cause the engine to have running problems, and Volvo fix it for free anyway!
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A fair summary to which I would add a very competent and surefooted tow car.
Forums whilst being enormously useful pools of knowledge and expertise, can also generate a certain amount of topical angst, often out of proportion to the actual facts.
The now extensively used VEA platform engine in my view is one such example. It is a relatively new and inherently good engine with a defect identified early on in its distribution and a free fix offered by Volvo. With 95K of heavy usage from new my VEA has been trouble with the free fix.
Of more concern to me is the poor service offered by many of the Volvo Main Dealers. I fortunately have an excellent one here in Taunton.
Have to agree with you on all of that. The Volvo dealerships that I have dealt with have been sub-standard. I've previously had a number of BMWs, and the customer service is infinitely better.
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