What do you HATE about your X40?

[gazO2V40T4]

The fact the previous owner hadn't looked after it and I'm now left picking up the pieces still a work in progress

[sortedt4]

iirc heated seats can be adjusted via dice


lack of traction is the only thing i can think of....but i need some better quality rubber last owner liked Chinese economy....

[ilikewatch]

Originally Posted by Alex121

Heated seats - Lovely for the first 5 minutes then they seem to stop for the rest of the journey and do nothing - that annoys me.

It could an urban myth, or even a figment of my imagination, but... I'm sure many years ago I remember reading about a North American Volvo owner who embarked on an 8 hour drive unaware that the timer/thermostat for his heated seats had failed and had stuck on. By the time he reached his destination his legs had been slow-cooked and had to be amputated. Anyway - makes me feel better about not having heated seats...

[Antz]

Shape of the boot and the big lip of the rear bumper. Not handy on an estate car

[DWM]

Yes, it's been done before. For me the main things are:

- useless headlights
- delaminating windscreen
- poor demist
- failing PITA marker lights (current strategy is to let them all fail and pretend that they were never meant to light up)
- failing interior bulbs ditto
- boot edge is rubbish for sitting and eating sandwiches - enough to drive you to buy another Volvo entirely
- come to think of it, the car is not really big enough at all
- stupid alarm fault that I've never solved

New ones this year:
- access to timing belt side of engine is infuriating
- and now both keys are starting to crumble...

...But I'm sentimentally attached...

[magnuz]

Front wheel drive - left front wheel spins too easily sometimes when starting off on wet roads!
No sunroof - rather have sunroof than AC
Horn push too stiff - the moment has passed by the time it sounds & end up looking a bit stupid.
Not big enough storage compartments - glove box, etc

[Dog_Book]

The fact i had to kill my car after the gearbox whet meaning to replace it along with a few others things for the next mot meant a big bill RIP

[DWM]

You'll be back.... or actually you never went away....

[Baffler]

The phase 2 drivers seat doesn't quite go back far enough for me and I like to practically sit in the back seat when driving There's possibly a way to adjust the limit but I haven't checked. As it happens I don't have that problem in the phase 1 S/V40 and the 850 has more than adequate leg room

[skyship007]

Originally Posted by magnuz

Front wheel drive - left front wheel spins too easily sometimes when starting off on wet roads!
No sunroof - rather have sunroof than AC
Horn push too stiff - the moment has passed by the time it sounds & end up looking a bit stupid.
Not big enough storage compartments - glove box, etc

Umm! New front tyres (Conti's or Dunlop"s) and smaller boots?
AC AND a sunroof would be nice!
Thump the horn like a Yankee driver?
The storage is fairly good for the size of the car, just the drink holders are missing.

@Baffler:
It's not designed for basketball players!