I have owned a 2016 XC90 T8 Twin Engine for 3.5 years now. Bought it at 111 000 km ( 68 900 mi ) and now it's at 185 000 km ( 115 000 mi ).
During the 3.5 year ownership I've never had an ERAD issue. I do believe my car is on the ERAD1 since it's the first model year in this generation. I actually was not aware of ERAD failures when buying the car. I'm obviously not a car person.
But now I'm looking at a newer XC90, model year 2021 onwards and below 60 000 km ( 37 000 mi ).
After reading through the forums, I'm thinking again. So many people have reported ERAD failures, with some people even reporting a catastrophic ERAD explosion, with the casing tearing apart.
As far as I knew, Volvo was great at making extremely sophisticated drivetrains. This forum is slowly changing my opinion.
I would really appreciate if T8 owners would share their real-world experiences and thoughts on this. Whether the ERAD failure is a " when " question rather than if.
Reading the forum gives me a feeling that people tend to get a picture that Volvo isn't safe as a brand on the engineering side, and reliability is also poor. It would be good to have many owners reporting their " good " experiences as well, as often only the bad gets highlighted. Just so we aren't scaring people away from buying the safest cars on the planet.
Thanks
During the 3.5 year ownership I've never had an ERAD issue. I do believe my car is on the ERAD1 since it's the first model year in this generation. I actually was not aware of ERAD failures when buying the car. I'm obviously not a car person.
But now I'm looking at a newer XC90, model year 2021 onwards and below 60 000 km ( 37 000 mi ).
After reading through the forums, I'm thinking again. So many people have reported ERAD failures, with some people even reporting a catastrophic ERAD explosion, with the casing tearing apart.
As far as I knew, Volvo was great at making extremely sophisticated drivetrains. This forum is slowly changing my opinion.
I would really appreciate if T8 owners would share their real-world experiences and thoughts on this. Whether the ERAD failure is a " when " question rather than if.
Reading the forum gives me a feeling that people tend to get a picture that Volvo isn't safe as a brand on the engineering side, and reliability is also poor. It would be good to have many owners reporting their " good " experiences as well, as often only the bad gets highlighted. Just so we aren't scaring people away from buying the safest cars on the planet.
Thanks
