Every 10,000 miles or sooner. I usually go at 7,500-8,000


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I have a 2015.5 V60 and on page 324 of the owner's manual it states:
Periodic maintenance helps minimize emissions
NOTE
• Refer to your Warranty and Service
Records Information booklet for a
comprehensive service and maintenance
schedule up to 150,000 miles
(240,000 km). This program contains
inspections and services necessary for
the proper function of your vehicle and
includes components that affect vehicle
emissions.
• The Warranty and Service Records
Information booklet also contains
detailed information concerning the
warranties that apply to your vehicle.

You should have the Warranty and Service booklet in your owner's packet.

Hope this helps.

 

Gotta be a quick message as I don't have a lot of time tonight, but I had the 10K mile service today (a little early). (I've also got a 2015.5 S60) - I had the check engine light come on just shy of 9K miles. Thought maybe it was the oil. Learned there was no dip stick. Except I guess me. Took into Volvo in the AM. They claimed the reason was software needed to be upgraded! I'll scan a shot of the service record codes in later. Everything was covered except they wanted $25 to rotate tires. Apparently, that's not included in the "maintenance contract". That was a new one to me.

On the way out of the service office, I asked mechanic how you can find out what exactly the check engine idiot light is for and he said you have to push the button. What button though

Hell, it's a lease. And I lease these days because I don't want to think about cars anymore

But I would like to find out more about how one can tell what service is required and if that info can be found via the console.

 

But I would like to find out more about how one can tell what service is required and if that info can be found via the console.

This would be nice but I doubt the capability exists. We've had our second check engine light in 60 days, so yeah I would like to know if it is something minor. My VW requires a VagCom cable (not cheap) to read engine codes. Not sure if a similar product exists for the Volvo. I know little about this car so I don't expect to be fixing anything myself anyway.

 

Volvo puts all of its manuals online at the link below. Your interval is 10k or 1 year.

http://www.volvocars.com/us/top/yourvolvo/volvo-vehicle-information-library/Pages/om.aspx

 

I just got off the phone with my service manager earlier today and she said it's usually 10k/1yr but for the 13s and up they are starting to do 6mo intervals for the first year after sale. And she also confirmed that's there's an ECM update that someone else mentioned.

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I looked at one of the menus in the car about a month ago, said we had 7k and i think 9 months to next service. We picked up the car in April at FDC, but end of May at dealer. At the time I checked, it occurred to me the dealer probably reset it at delivery time and set it for a year later or 10k miles.

 

Couple notes on 15.5 S60/V60:

- Checking Engine Oil Level: easily done by anyone. You don't need to open the hood. You sit in the car and use the driver stalk to scroll through system options. Oil level is shown if car is in rest and has been sitting for several hours to ensure it is accurate. This is just like my Jaguar and most every other decent car being made today.
- Tire rotation: no longer needed. This is just like my Jaguar and most every other decent car being made today. If you do you should be careful tires have even wear to not disrupt car handling. Stored tires should be reinstalled on same location they wear originally installed. As per the Volvo owners manual.

In regards to batteries - what is it with batteries failing so quickly? This happened to me as well on my 12 XC60 and Jaguars. Clearly an area that requires further work to improve reliability. Maybe Volvo can work with Tesla on this....

 

Couple notes on 15.5 S60/V60:

- Checking Engine Oil Level: easily done by anyone. You don't need to open the hood. You sit in the car and use the driver stalk to scroll through system options. Oil level is shown if car is in rest and has been sitting for several hours to ensure it is accurate. This is just like my Jaguar and most every other decent car being made today.

So, having what is essentially an idiot light as a replacement for checking your oil level is a good idea? Lots of threads on this subject and the consensus is it is a bad idea for obvious reasons. Only the Volvo designers (and apparently Jaguar designers) think this is a good idea (i.e. most owners won't open their hoods because they don't know what they are doing).

 

Pic Post

Does anyone have access to Flickr, Photobucket etc.?
I can email the dash and sensus messages to you for posting so all can see these notifications.

Thank You....

 

The tire rotation bulletin is SB77-007.

The content is the same as posted on that thread linked above.

 

I rotate mine at the 10k interval, then once in between, so they are being rotated every 5k. The manual says it's not necessary, but i do it anyway. This not covered under the complimentary service, though my dealer, Tasca in RI has rotated them twice with the scheduled service at no charge.
The scheduled maintenance is in the owners manual, or it could be a separate supplemental booklet, I'd have to look in the glovey.
There are many opinions regarding the electronic dipstick with the drive-e platform. Some folks like it, others not so much. My 2014 2.5 AWD has a real dipstick, so it hasn't been an issue for me.

Below is from the 2014 S60 owners manual.

Tire rotation
Your vehicle has no required tire rotation. Tire
wear is affected by a number of factors such
as tire inflation, ambient temperature, driving
style, etc.
NOTE
• If the tires are rotated, they should
only be moved from front to rear or
vice versa. They should never be rotated
left to right/right to left.
• Ideally, tire rotation should be done the
first time after approximately 3,000
miles (5,000 km) and thereafter at
6,000-mile (10,000-km) intervals.
Some customers find that tire rotation
may help to get extra mileage from tire
life.
• Tire rotation should only be performed
if front/rear tire wear is fairly even and
tread height is above 1/16" (1.6 mm)

 

Plus, without a dipstick, you can't fence with other owners at car meets. Where's the fun in that?

 

So, I changed the V60's oil at around 1,000 miles with top grade synthetic oil....just because I felt like it.
So, now, about 3k miles later, just about every time I start the car, I get the "schedule routine maintenance" on my TFT

Yesterday I went to my dealer because I foolishly bought the tan floor mats to match the tan interior...and picked up the grey (off black) set...

Asked the service guy about the "maintenance" insistent message, he said, yeah, they didn't go through the right steps to reset after the oil change, so as long as you don't have any warnings in your Volvo On Call app or on yer dashboard...just ignore it and come in for oil changes here between 5K and 7.5K miles...

HUH?

 

Just reset it now, and then at the next scheduled mileage/time change, do not rely on the light.

 

If the electronic oil level sensor only displays 'full or low', if low how much oil does one add? Add a cup of oil and check, and repeat as needed, till the oil level shows full on the display? I don't see any other easier method...:facepalm:

 

Gotta love it when the dealer tells you to ignore the car's warnings. Had an experience like this where service adviser told me to ignore the warning light on my long gone BMW which said oil lvl low. Description read something like this:do not drive more than 200 miles as this could cause engine failure, drive directly to dealership NOW! Turns out oil was over a quart low, it was leaking everywhere apparently and the idiot advisor didn't want to have to deal with it I guess as he sent me on my way told me to ignore it. Glad I got rid of that thing, especially after the dead battery and failed water pump (2 yr old car).

Seems like there are too many warning lights and trouble lights nowadays on cars and some can be ignored...some shouldn't be. Glad I have a dipstick as well.

Due diligence.

 

XC70 D5 2011 Polestar

 

My 2015 S60 T6 R design has a dipstick.

 

The Drive-E engines have the electronic oil sensor, not the 6-cyl.