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Jul 26th, 2021, 22:09 | #1 |
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Help: Totally unresponsive electrical system.
Mrs had to be recovered off the A1 at the weekend and we currently have a dead 2012 V70 2.0 D4 SE Lux geartronic outside the house. Lost power at 70mph so pulled onto the hard shoulder with the DIS cycling through seemigly every error message in it's repetoire. But prior to the engine stopping there was no battery warning light or Low Battery warning in the DIS. Mrs noticed when she had stopped and turned the ignition off that the headlights would not turn off. Handbrake would not disengage either. Recovery guy could not get car to respond when connected to his jumper pack so had to use slipper mats to get it onto the truck. To add insult to injury he must've had a screw on one of the mats as next morning I woke up to a flat rear tyre. Jacked car up and sandwiched between the road and the screw was a sliver of slipper mat that had scraped off as the car was slid off the back of the truck. Multimeter shows 11.8v on the battery so took it back (under warranty). The factors tested it and said it was OK but needed a charge. Left it with them, fetched it back tonight. Showed 13.1v. Fitted it to car, it allowed me to disengage the handbrake but brought up an error on DIS "Not in P" with a lot of bonging when the driver door was open. Put it in P, no change, still bonging away and insisting not in Park. Disconnected battery. Left for 10 minutes, reconnected it. Depressed brake, pushed Start...first message Brake Failure, no cranking, you have 10 vehicle messages, bulbs out, immobilizer reset please retry, ABS failure, headlamp levelling failure, SRS failure, etc etc. Pressed start again to turn car "off". Opened door, bong bong bong, not in P. Took battery off. As the battery voltage was so low I suspect the alternator might well be dead but unless I get car to start I don't know how I can check it. Currently at a loss what to do as car is at 150k miles so understandably I'm reluctant to get it towed 15 miles to the Volvo Service Center for them to tell me it needs a new ECU which will probably be a million pounds plus another million to recode it to the car.
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Jul 26th, 2021, 23:15 | #2 |
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Battery is dead i think. The shop has charged it, but it doesnt hold it, because it has internal short (or something like that) so as soon as it gets load, it drops the voltage. Happened to mee once too. One day car would just do nothing, all error messages. Car ran fine 2 days before. New battery in, problem solved.
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Jul 27th, 2021, 06:53 | #3 | |
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It happened to my son last year with his 2011 XC70. He and his family were about to set out home at the end of a summer holiday in Cornwall. Everything was packed up, the kids were in the back, and the car wouldn't start. Everything started going wrong. Error messages popped up. The alarm was going off when he unlocked the car. The car insisted that Valet Locking was on etc. etc. Out came the recovery service, who got the car started but advised that the battery was done for. It had a received a charge of sorts during the journey down, but a number of very short runs into the local town during the holiday week had finished it off. A new battery sorted it all. One thing that I would say about Volvo electronics is that they're great when they're working properly, but with even the first sniff of a problem they go all over the place. Please also note that my son's XC70 was nine years old at the time. |
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Jul 27th, 2021, 15:46 | #4 |
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I’ve used www.tayna.co.uk for the last three batteries I’ve bought. Excellent range and good prices. Not had to buy one for my XC70, it’s still on the original according to the date stamped on the battery post.
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Jul 27th, 2021, 17:55 | #5 |
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It's not just Volvos that do this when battery is low, Jaguars do it as well, tell you the world is ending with every error known. It's a dead battery on them.
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Jul 27th, 2021, 18:55 | #6 |
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Every CANbus car is like that. It's not a Volvo thing.
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Jul 27th, 2021, 21:01 | #8 |
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Do you use Claytons of Mansfield? Probably the nearest one to you.
If not give them a try.
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