Buying my first Volvo - XC90 T8 - looking for advice

[eugeneville]

Originally Posted by Cull06

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And you were very much right sir, as I've been accepted
So I've put down £41K as a deposit and £2740 on finance (they've provided a £250 contribution) and I'm getting two free services (its next service is due in August) and two free years of warranty with any official Volvo dealership for both.

Fingers crossed I've got a good deal (I certainly feel so).
The mileage was always a concern (58K for a 2019 plate) but realizing how somewhat rare these "Pro" spec models are (and its Polestar engineered, Harman Kardon audio as well) and how normally they're outside of my budget, in the end I was happy to go ahead.

However all of this is pending until I see the car and ok the whole deal to go ahead.

Wish me luck gentlemen, I should be seeing the car later in the week

[eugeneville]

Many thanks again for all your help and advice, I really appreciate it!

Here she is




First impressions are really good and the color is imho oh so nice The ride is still on the comfortable side even with 22" rims (my favourite design). Plenty of power on pure electric mode, certainly enough for my rather calm style of driving. Kids loved finding spiders in the back too

A few times the car turned the engine on whilst on Pure going from Reverse to Drive and I believe it's because of it rolling a tad either forwards or backwards.. Not sure yet how to get around this, I imagine using "Auto Hold" should do the trick, but let me know if you have any suggestions.

P.S. Been to the petrol station this morning and maybe it was a faulty fuelling pistol (not sure how to call them) but only after a few seconds of putting the petrol in, the pistol clicked as if the tank was full and right after that petrol started gushing out in large quantities... Tried again, this time just barely depressing the pistol thing and it happened again... Any ideas what might have caused this?

[Cull06]

Stunning mate.

The engine will come on from time to time for a variety of reasons. Nothing to worry about.

[sk546]

Originally Posted by eugeneville

P.S. Been to the petrol station this morning and maybe it was a faulty fuelling pistol (not sure how to call them) but only after a few seconds of putting the petrol in, the pistol clicked as if the tank was full and right after that petrol started gushing out in large quantities... Tried again, this time just barely depressing the pistol thing and it happened again... Any ideas what might have caused this?

Lovely looking car!! Is that Thunder Grey?

As for your experience with the fuel filler, you have to make sure the filling nozzle is fully inserted into the filler. T8's fuel tanks are fully sealed during normal operation in order to keep the fuel from going 'off' as they can go for quite long periods between filling.
If the nozzle doesn't go in far enough to open up the fuel tank, you will experience what you have above as all you are filling is the top section of filling pipe down to where the tank closure is.
If you have your filling nozzle fully inserted and this keeps happening, it may require a trip back to the dealer for them to sort it as the tank clearly isn't opening up are designed to allow filling.

[eugeneville]

Originally Posted by sk546

Lovely looking car!! Is that Thunder Grey?

As for your experience with the fuel filler, you have to make sure the filling nozzle is fully inserted into the filler. T8's fuel tanks are fully sealed during normal operation in order to keep the fuel from going 'off' as they can go for quite long periods between filling.
If the nozzle doesn't go in far enough to open up the fuel tank, you will experience what you have above as all you are filling is the top section of filling pipe down to where the tank closure is.
If you have your filling nozzle fully inserted and this keeps happening, it may require a trip back to the dealer for them to sort it as the tank clearly isn't opening up are designed to allow filling.

Thank you, yes it's Thunder Grey, color looks stunning and fresh in real life.
Cheers for the tip, I was pretty sure I have pushed it all the way in as I've tried twice, but I will surely give it another go later today.

I am also planning on taking it to a local garage for a general check up of the suspension and other bits to ensure all is indeed well as the Volvo dealership assured me they car went through all the checks and nothing needs immediate attention.

[Kugaman1]

Beautiful car mate.

Can I just add…..dont cancel the finance after a month, cancel it right now, within 14 days.

That way you will only pay a tiny amount if interest with no cancellation fee or withdrawal fee.

You will still get the free servicing and warranty.

We have done it about 10 times with VW, Seat, Audi and Land Rover. Always cancelled within 2 or 3 days and just paid off the balance. Never ever had the warranty/servicing taken away.

When we bought a Seat, the dealer advised we had to make one payment before cancelling - when I rang the finance company to ask about this, they wanted full details of the salesman, etc as they said that was totally incorrect and they would be addressing the misinformation with the dealer.

[eugeneville]

Originally Posted by Kugaman1

Beautiful car mate.

Can I just add…..dont cancel the finance after a month, cancel it right now, within 14 days.

That way you will only pay a tiny amount if interest with no cancellation fee or withdrawal fee.

You will still get the free servicing and warranty.

We have done it about 10 times with VW, Seat, Audi and Land Rover. Always cancelled within 2 or 3 days and just paid off the balance. Never ever had the warranty/servicing taken away.

When we bought a Seat, the dealer advised we had to make one payment before cancelling - when I rang the finance company to ask about this, they wanted full details of the salesman, etc as they said that was totally incorrect and they would be addressing the misinformation with the dealer.

Really appreciate your advice, nice one.
To be frank I've already cancelled it this morning and I've only accrued a daily charge figure of £2.60 (finance was signed on Friday) which is not bad

[Kugaman1]

Originally Posted by eugeneville

Really appreciate your advice, nice one.
To be frank I've already cancelled it this morning and I've only accrued a daily charge figure of £2.60 (finance was signed on Friday) which is not bad

Nice one, thats the exact way to play them at their own game.

Weve done it soooo many times, such an easy way to get free servicing!

[sk546]

Originally Posted by eugeneville

Thank you, yes it's Thunder Grey, color looks stunning and fresh in real life.
Cheers for the tip, I was pretty sure I have pushed it all the way in as I've tried twice, but I will surely give it another go later today.

I am also planning on taking it to a local garage for a general check up of the suspension and other bits to ensure all is indeed well as the Volvo dealership assured me they car went through all the checks and nothing needs immediate attention.

I too love Thunder Grey, this is mine.

I love that it looks like a different colour depending what light the car is in, superb paint!!

[eugeneville]

I'm am absolutely in love with our new XC90, it doesn't feel any worse than the L405 range rover we've had before. Been driving it mostly on electric and using "Hold" function when on motorways, beautiful car to both look at and drive.

A few questions though

* When on "Pure" and with "Additional Heating" disabled in the menu (as I believe this uses a separate fuel fired heater) cabin doesn't seem to heat up at all. I just drove it this morning with temperatures being around 5 degrees Celsius and after about half an hour of driving it was still blowing cold air even though I had heating set to 24...
I've read that on Pure it takes "longer" to heat up, but in my case it seems it doesn't actually heat up at all, the air it pushes out just remains cold...

* Does everyone's boot lid slam back down at the very end? Mine goes down from opened slowly and gently but at the very end just slams shut. Normally on other cars it tends to close very gently and then sort of "pushes" in a tad more.
Please let me know how it is for you. I can take a video to help show what I mean.

* I have the option of lowering side view mirrors turned on when reversing, but it seems to not save the position I set them to. I.e. if I put the car in reverse and then adjust the mirrors so that they wouldn't point too low it wouldn't save this position. Others are experiencing the same?

Thank you

NB:
* Found this post on the US/Canada Volvo forum... Apparently it is an actual fault with the "the coolant heater used for the climate system":
https://www.swedespeed.com/threads/t...2#post-4617017

* Found this random video:
https://youtu.be/SbMtP_r71qw?t=124
where it shows a boot lid closing and it does it sort of two motions with that gentle pushing in at the very end... That's how I'd expect it to work. However mine just shuts close. Will take a video