This S-80 6T is the first of the 6 Volvos I’ve owned over the past 45 years to do this. The battery in the S-80 is 1 year old, purchased from the Volvo dealer, so my unprofessional guess leans toward either corrosion preventing full flow of umph between battery and alternator and vice- versa, or a failing alternator.
Nothing that another thousand dollars can’t cure, if lucky.
I wouldn’t think Volvo would market cars knowingly or not, they equip with insufficient alternators or undersized batteries. Especially in older Swedish made Volvos made before the disaster of selling out to China.
This will likely be my last Volvo and it’s by far the greatest vehicle I’ve owned, even ten times better than the Beemer 525i that was difficult to keep under 100mph any time I got onto an interstate.
I can’t count the number of times I’d be cruising along zonning out in conversation or with the music and notice that dashed white line separating the lanes appearing to look like a solid line. That happened when I’d passed the 140mph mark.
i had to sell that thing before I ended up in pieces scattered for a mile if anything went awry at that speed like failure of a tire rated for 120 max speed.
This awesome S-80 will cruise at those speeds too but when it does, you can feel that you’re moving at somewhat of an excessive speed. That damned BMW felt like 60 even after the broken white line turned solid.
It’s a bummer, but I don’t see myself paying Volvo prices for a car made in China, especially knowing they’re too cheap to even put a dip-stick in engines now to prevent owners from checking to see the engine has new oil in it after those hundred dollar oil changes, which you know is going to happen at some shops.
i mean, you’re making Volvos for God’s sake!
Spend the extra two dollars to poke a hole in the block and I’d happily pay the $50 markup they’d charge for it so we can keep their service shops honest by pulling a dip stick after oil and filter changes.
It screams that they want to hide something important from every owner of a new Volvo.
That, I ain’t buying.
rambling back to the haunted headlights that object to steering wheel movement, my two cents goes on an issue at the alternator or connectivity loss at connection points tween it and battery.
But I won’t bet much more than that, knowing how often i’m way off on anything electronic and how stuff works.
gold star for anyone who read this entire novel scribbled by one bored retiree who couldn’t find much else to bitch about on this damned cold-assed evening.
lol