I love my S60R but will never buy another purely based on the dismal franchise service. Is it that Volvo don't really help dealers understand the R models specialist nature or the adage 'pay peanuts..... whatever they seem to employ monkeys.

I would love to change dealer but being a 25k a year car even changing the service agent to another Volvo dealer won't help me sell it next summer and given the ridulous depreciation I won't do anything to further dent the buyer interest!

Now the 36k service is due I dug out the 1st and 2nd service docs and found at 12k Johnsons charged me for Fully Synthetic Shell while the same dealer charged me for shell semi synthetic at 24k service. So which is it anyone know for certain because I guess my dealer doesn't?

Johnsons have all my local sites and having had a gearbox removal required (under warranty thankfully) at another one of their branches the car came back with the steering wheel 30 degrees out, it went back in and they straightened it but after a month of dreadful steering feel I returned to the orginal branch to be charged over £100 for wheel alignment. Any of you feel I've been had?

So please can you ley me know about the oil, take my advice it is worth it over a T5 (I've had both), but don't bother with Volvo Agents in the Midlands.


S60R
Black/Gobi/18" Anthracite
Reg. 31/12/04
No chip mods but ITG Filter