Buying a Volvo? Read This First.

I was a fan but that is over. 3 years of ongoing dealings with various Volvo service centres, Landrover / Volvo Bedford and before that Auto Baltic Eastrand, trying to get the multitude of issues with this Volvo s90 with mind you, an currently active full maintenance and service plan adressed, cured me of this brand. I can confidently say I have never had this level of lackluster, lip service from Mercedes or even Ford.

A simple request for the vehicles maintenance and service history to assist a third party to try and solve the ongoing problems that Volvo seems incapable of addressing is being ignored and treated a request for classified information.

Parts indicated as replaced were in fact refurbished, repairs conducted on blind spot sensors, come back after a few weeks, repairs to gearbox shifting delays, especially when cold, come back after a few weeks, experts evaluate vibrations clearly caused by horizontal driveshaft play as requiring replacement but when the car is booked in a week later they say it is in spec.

None of luxury class vehicles I own or owned ever before has or came with erratic gearbox shifts, random blind spot alerts and highway speed vibrations you can feel in the car seat and footwells as standard. What makes it worse is that the vehicle has active accident avoidance, active by the random blind spot sensor alerts…