Volvo V70 Petrol Turbo

It would help to know the exact model and year as the engine management systems differ. If you say where you are located someone may be able to recommend someone local to you who is familiar with these cars and able to do the appropriate diagnostic testing & repair.

Thanks for your interest OBD.

"It would help to know the exact model and year as the engine management systems differ."

It is a Volvo V 70, 2.5 Turbo Estate first registered October 1997

"If you say where you are located someone may be able to recommend someone local to you who is familiar with these cars and able to do the appropriate diagnostic testing & repair."

We are in Glasgow area and have already tried Murray Volvo in Paisley. Either their equipment is inadequate or their staff didn't use it properly because their two opportunities to solve the problem failed.

The lad who is looking at it now has checked the air flow meter and also the ECU and both proved to be OK.

Cheers Helen K

Hi Helen,

Try VolvoMax, they're in Springburn just off the M8. I've heard nothing but good things about them and on several occasions when I've taken my '89 240 to them they've been fantastic. Dougie Maxwell is the guy in charge, their number is: 0141 774 7770. They're quite busy so you might have to hold on and ring for ever! good luck

Olly

Thanks Olly, I'll pass that on to my "better" half.

Cheers Helen K

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The car will be fitted with a Motronic 4.4 engine management ECU which requires a fault code reader to determine why the light came on. The good news is the ECU is compliant with the US 'standard' OBDII system so most garages should be able to read the fault codes from it. I would guess from the symptoms the problem may be a dirty throttle body and idle air valve. However without knowledge of the fault codes logged in the ECU it would be only a guess.

Replacing expensive sensors at random is not the way to solve the problem.

I think a garage local to you has been recommended, I would check they have the equipment to read fault codes from the engine ECU (tell them the year and model) and then try them.

If you want to have a go yourself a fault code reader for your car can be obtained from:

Thanks again OBD. I'll pass that info on too. My husband has already phoned the recommended garage but still hasn't arranged for it to go in. He will collect the car today from the other lad who's looking at it.

Cheers Helen K