A V70 D5! Having owned a couple of T5s and more recently a 2.5T S60 I was looking for a V70 for canine reasons. I have always tended towards faster petrol cars but after looking at various T5s and D5s I settled on a 185 bhp D5. I was a bit disappointed when I test drove it as it seemed to vibrate and be noisy after my petrol but the garage said it had been diagnosed with a worn engine mount so when it was fixed I went back and tried again. Much better! In fact they had replaced 3 mounts so no wonder really. Almost a week on and I'm happy. Its doing almost double mpg over my 2.5T and to be honest is not noticeably slower. It will spin the tyres in 2nd gear if you are rough and like all Volvos tends to over-steer when pushed but this has just been the experimental week and I doubt I will experience that in day to day use. Some tight wad has removed the mats and the rear luggage blind if anyone has some cluttering their garage up and there's no heated seats despite the full leather. I'm getting nesh in my old age.
I have had no time to do anything to the car yet. I've ordered a can of BG244 cleaner and have a creaky drivers seat to sort and 2 annoying buzzy rattles that sound like trim over both rear door areas. The steering wheel is slightly off centre too so I will get tracking checked just in case. I'm running 32psi all round at the moment but if anyone has an opinion I'm interested and I'm assuming normal diesel as opposed to the higher ultra style? Sorry to witter on but I'm pretty chuffed!
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