Volvo Community Forum. The Forums of the Volvo Owners Club

Forum Rules Volvo Owners Club About VOC Volvo Gallery Links Volvo History Volvo Press
Go Back   Volvo Owners Club Forum > "Technical Topics" > S60 & V60 '11-'18 / XC60 '09-'17 General

Notices

S60 & V60 '11-'18 / XC60 '09-'17 General Forum for the P3-platform 60-series models

Information
  • VOC Members: There is no login facility using your VOC membership number or the details from page 3 of the club magazine. You need to register in the normal way
  • AOL Customers: Make sure you check the 'Remember me' check box otherwise the AOL system may log you out during the session. This is a known issue with AOL.
  • AOL, Yahoo and Plus.net users. Forum owners such as us are finding that AOL, Yahoo and Plus.net are blocking a lot of email generated from forums. This may mean your registration activation and other emails will not get to you, or they may appear in your spam mailbox

Thread Informations

Strange Electrical Fault S60 2011

Views : 750

Replies : 5

Users Viewing This Thread :  

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old Mar 27th, 2020, 21:19   #1
Gazaa
New Member
 

Last Online: Mar 27th, 2020 23:16
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Ringwood
Default Strange Electrical Fault S60 2011

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble with a recently purchased Volvo S60 1.6 drive-e model. It's quite an intermittent fault but sometimes when driving the car will go into meltdown and display basically every fault symbol and warning message it knows on the dash and the radio / dials cut in and out. A video linked of the exact fault https://youtu.be/kFVC4S1VNw8

Weve had it at a local garage for the past week and they're struggling to diagnose the fault. Weve actually recently bought this car on finance and already replaced the alternator and battery as we were told the issue was that.

Any ideas on the issue?

Thanks in advance.
Gazaa is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 28th, 2020, 10:41   #2
sithlord
New Member
 

Last Online: Dec 14th, 2021 20:51
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Zagreb
Default

What does VIDA say?
Could it be that bad alternator fried battery and CEM?
sithlord is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 28th, 2020, 15:43   #3
Zebster
Upstanding Member
 
Zebster's Avatar
 

Last Online: Sep 12th, 2023 12:29
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Ludlow
Default

It's probably water getting into the CEM or a CAN bus connector? Usually from the windscreen seal leaking at the top.
__________________
GONE: 2015 V60 D4 181 (VEA) R-Design Lux Nav manual in black
Zebster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 30th, 2020, 23:07   #4
DT19
Master Member
 

Last Online: Today 11:35
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: York
Default

The CEM is behind the glovebox in the passenger footwell. There's a large connector on the side behind the carpet which is quite prone to getting kicked and knocked so I'm told. It might be worth unplugging and reconnecting all the connections under there. The CEM is a bit awkward to get to but it's quite easy to get the glovebox out which makes it much easier.
DT19 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 1st, 2020, 18:44   #5
GMcL
0's and 1's
 
GMcL's Avatar
 

Last Online: Today 03:14
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: -
Default

Question I'd be asking myself is has this car had a bath at some time in its life ?

It's unusual for the electrics to play up in this way (I've had two S60's in the last 14 years). I've got an '11 reg S60 D3 on 83,000 miles, I've never seen anything like this from the electrics.
__________________
2011 Volvo S60 D3 R-design Premium - 2020 Focus ST estate automatic - 2020 KIA eSoul 150kW 64kwh EV

Previous: 2005 Volvo S60 D5 Sport - 2017 Focus RS
GMcL is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Jun 9th, 2020, 21:40   #6
Baal
Member
 

Last Online: Jul 4th, 2022 16:18
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Ljubljana
Default

The wiring looms in the engine bay are rubbing against each other, they wear out from vibration and causing these symptoms you're having.
Baal is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 15:05.


Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.