My daughter was on her way to work two weeks ago in her 2000 S80 and had a "catastrophic failure" of the left front ball joint. Thank God no one else was around her and she was going only 40 mph--not yet on the freeway she was headed to. We have had the car 2 1/2 yrs and it has
63,000 miles on it. We do all scheduled maintenance and she says there was absolutely no warning! I'm writing Volvo USA, but we have lost our confidence in this car (in Volvo?). The ball joints had been replaced when the car was a year old I found out, because of a campaign to replace them. Well, the new ones aren't working any better apparently!Shannon