I had the very good fortune to inherit a beautiful 2004 V70R from a friend of 33 years who owned it from 2005 and absolutely pampered it. It just turned 80k miles on a Thanksgiving trip this week. Everything I have checked so far seems to function perfectly, other than the windshield washers and some functions of the rear wiper.
Our independent shop found the harness connection to the washer pump severed, so that’s likely the washer issue. The rear wiper is weird. My late friend had removed the rear arm altogether, covering the threads with a bit of rubber hose. I found an OEM arm on eBay, and the continuous mode cycles normally but fails to self-park. If I watch it and switch it off at the right moment, it parks, but if I switch it off in mid-swipe, it stops wherever it is at the moment.
The intermittent mode is erratic, starting and stopping all over the swipe, and it eventually blows the fuse.
So I can use it in a fully manual mode but not otherwise. I’ve been searching online and suspect it may be a relay issue? I understand that a new motor is something like $400, and the motor seems fine.
Sorry if this is redundant to previous posts. I’m still trying to get hits for “rear wiper” in the search function. This car is beyond amazing. We originally thought of selling it, but it has a branded title as a Lemon Law buyback and has the automatic transmission. A local exotics broker said those two factors would put it under $10k, and it’s just too nice to give it away cheap. The Lemon Law thing was some kind of clunking in the rear suspension, but my late friend was a master mechanic who loved European luxury cars, so I’m certain that he fixed it a long time ago. He paid $29k for it with 12k miles and only drove it on long highway trips. Kept it covered and attended to every tiny issue that arose over 18 years.
The body and paint are all but flawless. A few small chips and a front bumper cover that has obviously had some engagements with parking blocks). The blue Nordkap leather is perfect except for some minor wear cracking on the driver’s left bolster and still smells amazing. We replaced the front and rear glass, as the windshield had dangerously severe water stains that the detail shop couldn’t fix and the rear glass shattered from a very gentle encounter in a dark, cramped parking lot with a pickup’s side mirror while trying to get out of a tight space with that atrocious turning radius. 🤬
Grateful indeed we are.🤗