Update: We agreed to cover some more hours of diagnostic/engine tare down costs in order for Volvo to agree to cover the piston work. This would put us at about $1200 out of pocket. Based on our experience, all the older threads on this issue I have read and obxcnc's ongoing thread, it would seem that Volvo has a pretty established protocol for how they want dealers to handle things. And for those of us who are out or warranty and/or who bought used, they have some kind of threshold $$$ skin in the game that they want owners to hit, likely to prove how committed they are to keeping the cars after they are fixed.
So now we are waiting on parts, specialty tools, and the dealer to take of the head so they can confirm the cylinders are not damaged and the whole engine need to be replace instead.
MyVolvoS60, I get where you are going but we bought this car used at 35k miles and don't have any record of this issue with the dealer shop until after 60k+, so we are out of luck on the warranty and our state's lemon laws don't cover used cars.
meade18, it has taken a hand full of back and forth trips and several months. I would get the ball rolling sooner than later and make sure that the dealer ship is in contact with Volvo tech advisers right from the get go.
So now we are waiting on parts, specialty tools, and the dealer to take of the head so they can confirm the cylinders are not damaged and the whole engine need to be replace instead.
MyVolvoS60, I get where you are going but we bought this car used at 35k miles and don't have any record of this issue with the dealer shop until after 60k+, so we are out of luck on the warranty and our state's lemon laws don't cover used cars.
meade18, it has taken a hand full of back and forth trips and several months. I would get the ball rolling sooner than later and make sure that the dealer ship is in contact with Volvo tech advisers right from the get go.
