that's just masking the problem.
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it is not a TF-80SC. It comes up as a variant in VIDA. like TF-81 or something...
updated TCM software will give you that.
Absoultely NOT! All modules in your car get updated for free now as part of Volvo Service Advantage.
If you are being charged for updates (not reloads) on software modules your dealership is a bunch of thieves. Report them to VCNA.
you can go in for a $20 tire rotation and they have to do it. ANY service. The software updates themselves ARE free though.
Stop spreading bull****. That is absolutely untrue. You apparently haven't been into a dealer in the last two years.
Just read it:
http://www.volvocars.com/us/own/maintenance/volvo-service-advantage
SO you go in, get a tire rotation or some bull****, and you specify on the RO to check and apply any software updates. If they balk you pull up this website and show them. It is called the Total CAN Update and it has a part number. 8691414 (8691431 for P1 cars). I even put this part number in the notes of the RO so there is no bull****ting when the car goes in.
Then you verify on the RO they completed the work as requested. If nothing is shown on the RO they did it you send the **** back until they do it.
I've done this many times and the dealer doesn't even blink anymore at it, they just do it. it costs them $0.01.
My dealer tried to foist a $350 TCM update an I was like LOL nice try guys go back and apply it for free. I tell all my customers to go do the same thing. Shysters are trying to get suckers to pay for their VIDA subscription.
call their asses to the floor with VCNA if they claim to be a VSA dealer and won't do it. My dealer was that way at first, but if any dealer participates in the "parts for life" bull**** offer then they have to participate in the VSA service regimen, they can't pick and choose.
just print out the TSB, read it, and then tell them your car is exhibiting those problems. You don't tell them about the TSB at first. If they wont do it the first time, take it back, come back in a month and tell them the same though, and this time show them the TSB, so they know you mean business.
90% of those warranties are complete crap. and you pay through the nose on the ones that are legit. We have people bring them into our shop all the time and we fill out all the claims only to be denied for some bull**** reason. Most legit warranties cost more than half what your car is worth.
for the millionth time these kits and fluid flushes do not fix the PHYSICAL DEFECT with the valve body! All they are is band aids. We just did this job on an 06 R, you are looking at $800 (lol good luck) if you do it yourself or about $2k for a shop to do it. But the problem WILL be fixed!
honestly, the latest TCM update with a new valve body provides crisp shifts. You clear the adaptations and fluid counter when you install the new valve body, then go to a dealer and get the Service 2.0 CAN updates and you will be set.
there is no ****ing way you can do this job for $1100 unless you charge something stupid like $40 an hour. The part is $800 and you are looking at at least 6 hours to do the job right.
dealer didn't replace my transmission, they did the job according to the TSB, and they did it well cause it has been fine ever since.
LOL....overhauled? The part is NEW. I would never get a remanned valve body to save $200 just so I can do the job twice. You need to source your advice better.I know for a fact you can get it done for $500-$600 overhauled, plus labor. You need to source your parts better.
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the transmission is constantly adapting. you can certainly do that, but it is most important just to clear the adaptation and the fluid age counter. Both parameters are taken into account for adapting shift quality.
SO overhaul labor is somehow magically cheaper? Because you have to get into it the exact same way. And saving $200 on a reman part would put you at $1800.....on a job that you or the next owner is going to do again.
You are a like a turd that won't flush....would just stop giving people bad advice?
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