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Buying a new XC60 and have heard chat about need to swap round tyres to keep the circumference equal as possible between front and back??? New concept to me but is there an ideal regime for maintaining tyres.
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No need for this at all , it died out when volvo got rid of the viscous coupling 14 years ago !
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Some people still believe this, I bought a towbar off a guy a couple of years ago, who loved his xc90 but went on about running costs , he'd just paid out for a full set of tyres because the fronts were worn out ! his garage told him about the danger of different diameters
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It was the reduced rolling diameter that the garage had warned about Dave |
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I'm afraid the garage is either 13 years out of date with volvos or conning the xc90 owner .
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![]() Amazing , i wonder who actualy wrote that paragraph ? It doesnt read well , and why are they quoting km in a UK Handbook ( Or on your sensus screen ) ? Just about every volvo i have seen has tyre tread depths differing by a lot more than 1 mm .. It just isn't practical to keep moving wheels around everytime the tyre tread depths differ by more than 1 mm especialy with FWD versions ! Who is going to keep measuring them monthly and who is going to pay to have wheels swapped around a couple of times or more between services ? People generaly these days pay no attention whatsoever to their tyres , They don't check pressures from one service to another , and drive around with cords exposed on the edges ... It certainly isnt a routine maintenance item to swap wheels around. To be honest new tyres are needed just about every service with 18000 mile intervals , That paragraph just doesnt make sense .. I really despair with volvo these days sometimes !
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I haven't had enough experience with the XC60 to know what that's like though. I agree there are some odd instructions in the handbook. This one takes the biscuit. It says you can only check the oil level with the engine cold and on level ground with the ignition on. But at an oil change after draining and refilling, to drive 35K before the electronic oil level indicator will work. (So how do you know it has the correct amount in the first place and how can you check when the EOLI wont work because the oil will be hot?) It also says to check the oil level regularly during long journeys under adverse conditions like high speed or towing etc. (So how do you do that with a very hot engine oil when the EOIL won't work?) Not having a proper dipstick seems barking mad to me.
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