[rickead2000]

Hi,

I have just bought a 2011 XC90 D5 Auto with 112k miles. Full service history between main dealer and Volvo specialists.

The car made it the 90 mile home trip from the garage brilliantly, no issues.

However, later that evening when driving round a slight corner at ~40mph there was a shuddering and I got "Anti-skid Service Required" and "Transmission Service Required" pop up on the dash. The gearbox went into limp as it seemed to be stuck in 3rd gear and the "D" on the dash went to a "-".

Was only 2 minutes from home so made it back. Then 20 minutes later went out again, errors had cleared. But 2 minutes into the journey they both came back again (no shudder this time) and went back into limp. This time I was again doing about 40mph but on a straight road.

Is there anything common that would cause these two faults to come on together? An old Discovery that I had would trigger 3 lights (ABS, traction and hill descent) when an ABS sensor went bad.

I have it booked into a Volvo specialist tomorrow to read the codes but am worried this could be a serious problem and I may have to reject the vehicle.

Having scoured the internet there are a lot of reports that the transmission in the XC90 isn't really worthy of Volvo's reputation and typically start failing not much after 100k.

Any opinions welcome!