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Old May 11th, 2007, 00:20   #129
Oli
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Originally Posted by Agostino View Post
Negatori!! You are not alone. Being a fellow Mechanic, it all depends on how one treats a car.
I had my last car a VOLVO 740, for 15 years. And I can categorically state that it ((she) the car silly!!) never broke down in any way/shape or form whatsoever! So there!
They don't make em like the used to then. And our family 740 GLE was always very reliable.

The ETM complaint is that it is a very poor design, not that you can't expect things to wear out. The MM ETM should never have made it into a car, unlike the bosch replacement which does not suffer the same issues. If the original part was so good - why is there a specific warning light on the dash just for this component?

£200 for a replacement if you've reached 100k maybe ok. But until recently, people and lots of them, were being charged £600+

Read Vexed Volvo for the full jackanory

Oli
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