Timing belt change V90???

[Discoman]

One option is to play with the online service booking tool. Put in your reg number and then just sequentially go through each annual service to see what it involves. For my car the belt change comes in at 8 years/144k miles.

[ThomasC91]

I recently asked this question with a Volvo garage.

It's around 100,000 miles or 10 years.

If you're doing around 18,000 a year then this would mean the cambelt change would be done at the 5th service and expect a cost of £1000 including the service if you go with a Volvo dealership.

I bought an s90 with 42,000 miles on the clock and needs a 5th service, but have been told it doesn't need doing because of the mileage.

Good luck with your search. It's frustrating trying to find one with all the fangle dangle and being within budget.

[Philip Fisher]

Originally Posted by ThomasC91

I recently asked this question with a Volvo garage.

It's around 100,000 miles or 10 years.

If you're doing around 18,000 a year then this would mean the cambelt change would be done at the 5th service and expect a cost of £1000 including the service if you go with a Volvo dealership.

I bought an s90 with 42,000 miles on the clock and needs a 5th service, but have been told it doesn't need doing because of the mileage.

Good luck with your search. It's frustrating trying to find one with all the fangle dangle and being within budget.

I don't believe this is correct.

For SPA cars the interval is 1 year/18k miles for servicing, so everything works on a multiple of 18. 100k miles is not a whole multiple of 18.

For SPA cars:-

Petrol 144k or 8 years.
Diesel 90k or 5 years.

Cost is about an additional £500 over the normal service price.

[Zebster]

Originally Posted by Philip Fisher

I don't believe this is correct.

For SPA cars the interval is 1 year/18k miles for servicing, so everything works on a multiple of 18. 100k miles is not a whole multiple of 18.

For SPA cars:-

Petrol 144k or 8 years.
Diesel 90k or 5 years.

Cost is about an additional £500 over the normal service price.

I don't believe that this is quite correct either, although it is a logical conclusion for Volvo to make assuming that the vehicle does actually cover 18k miles each year (as a worst-case scenario).

At service number 5 mine was well short of 90k miles, so the dealer told me to get it done at 90k miles or 10 years, whichever came first. Admittedly mine is pre-SPA, although I don't believe this makes any difference?

[Philip Fisher]

Originally Posted by Zebster

I don't believe that this is quite correct either, although it is a logical conclusion for Volvo to make assuming that the vehicle does actually cover 18k miles each year (as a worst-case scenario).

At service number 5 mine was well short of 90k miles, so the dealer told me to get it done at 90k miles or 10 years, whichever came first. Admittedly mine is pre-SPA, although I don't believe this makes any difference?

Yours is pre SPA so the intervals are most likely different (although I don't know as I haven't researched pre SPA).

For SPA it is exactly as I have posted previously.

I have just this moment made the effort to check the volvo UK website. I put in a petrol XC90 and at 8yrs or 144k it says cambelt. I then tried an XC90 diesel and at 5yrs or 90k it says cambelt. So exactly as I posted.

The cambelt is a service item which is included in the service schedule. It is not an extra like brake fluid every 2 years or the puncture fluid every 4 years which sits outside the schedule. The schedule is clear. On the 5th service for diesel. On the 8th service for petrol.

To me this seems simple and crystal clear.

[XC90Mk1]

Originally Posted by Clan

The Cambelt change interval is now 90000 MILES or 10 years which ever comes first . It is unbelievable where all this dangerous hearsay information comes from on the Internet .. It is easy enough to contact the dealer 👍🏻

It’s a bit like the Lor that JWS3309 must be the only fluid to ever set foot in the auto box when Volvo changed the spec in 2010/2011, that’s a decade ago!!

I too can’t believe the number of people who won’t phone the dealer (not directed at the OP at all).

[ThomasC91]

Originally Posted by Philip Fisher

I don't believe this is correct.

For SPA cars the interval is 1 year/18k miles for servicing, so everything works on a multiple of 18. 100k miles is not a whole multiple of 18.

For SPA cars:-

Petrol 144k or 8 years.
Diesel 90k or 5 years.

Cost is about an additional £500 over the normal service price.

Well I was told about 90,000 or 10 years, but that's based on my mileage.

The 90k is assuming you for 18k a year otherwise it won't need doing until 10 years.

[cassell]

I think Philip is correct, when I bought my 2017 MY V90 as an ex demonstrator at 5 months old I took out a 4 year service plan which took me to the 2020 service, the car had done 37k miles when this was done last November.

I've subsequently taken out a further 2 year service plan with my dealer and IIRC this was tailored to incorporate a cam belt change at the 5 year service this year by which time the car will be somewhere between 40k and 50k miles I estimate if my pre-lockdown driving pattern is resumed.

[ThomasC91]

Originally Posted by cassell

I think Philip is correct, when I bought my 2017 MY V90 as an ex demonstrator at 5 months old I took out a 4 year service plan which took me to the 2020 service, the car had done 37k miles when this was done last November.

I've subsequently taken out a further 2 year service plan with my dealer and IIRC this was tailored to incorporate a cam belt change at the 5 year service this year by which time the car will be somewhere between 40k and 50k miles I estimate if my pre-lockdown driving pattern is resumed.

Why would it need doing at 5 years on that mileage?

Just going on what I was told anyway, but maybe they're wrong.

It seems like it might be 5 years or 90k which ever comes first, but mine is booked in on Tuesday for a 5th year service with 42,000 on the clock and been told it won't need doing until about 100,000 or 90,000. Can't remember the exact figure now.

[Zebster]

Originally Posted by Philip Fisher

Yours is pre SPA so the intervals are most likely different (although I don't know as I haven't researched pre SPA).

For SPA it is exactly as I have posted previously.

I have just this moment made the effort to check the volvo UK website. I put in a petrol XC90 and at 8yrs or 144k it says cambelt. I then tried an XC90 diesel and at 5yrs or 90k it says cambelt. So exactly as I posted.

The cambelt is a service item which is included in the service schedule. It is not an extra like brake fluid every 2 years or the puncture fluid every 4 years which sits outside the schedule. The schedule is clear. On the 5th service for diesel. On the 8th service for petrol.

To me this seems simple and crystal clear.

I disagree... To have the belt replaced at 5 years (irrespective of mileage) is merely a logical conclusion based on 18k miles a year having been covered. I have the same engine and my local Volvo dealer told me 90k miles or 10 years.

I wouldn't put too much faith in the service schedules published by Volvo UK... these definitely DO NOT tie up with the schedules used by the dealerships!. A while back I had to threaten legal action to have all the published service items retrospectively carried out... https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=303541