Veeky Forums - Volvo General

Very promising! Thank you for your input.

Plan is to keep my existing V40 until I have enough saved for an R and initial funding for tyres/spares, then keep it off the road until I'm happy it's mechanically sound

your solution is not buying an automatic :^)

hilton tune to remove the torque limiter. just keep in mind it's there to protect the transmission, not to nerf your experience

My dad owned a Volvo sedan (model uncertain) when I was young and I think it's given me incurable Volvautism.

What model Volvo makes the best first car, if any are really suitable for someone with no money and little mechanical knowledge whatsoever?

none of them. all of them will be expensive and difficult to repair. older volvos will just require more repairs

go with a honda civic/accord or something.

I was afraid that would be the answer

850 or 240

nothing newer then 2000

I love my S60R, but I don't drive it much so it doesn't have much of a chance to surprise me with expensive repairs. The real problem with them now is that they have become cheap enough for idiots to own. Very few are still in the hands of people who properly care for them, and as such they are becoming fucked.

Anyhow, my experiences with mine are as follows. The 4C suspension is expensive, but is very comfortable when it's working. The power is good, but you get used to it after a while. The seats are the best part about the car, probably only second to the seats in the new S90. I have the iPd exhaust and downpipe in mine and while I enjoy the extra little oomph they give, I probably wouldn't recommend them at iPd's price. iPd's strut bar conversion and a GROM bluetooth adapter are a must though.

Pigfat
The car is way too heavy for any power train besides the 2.5T, heard some one in my town used to have a 2.0 NA C30, he had to get a tune for it because the stock 130HP is way, way too weak for this car, and in the end, he endup with only 170HP, so around the NA 2.4L stock, cant imagine how weak these cars can be on the 2.0 stock

Other than that, they still have some tank qualities from past volvos, they were the safest car in the world before the XC60 and can take a beating, just know that when things do break, its gonna be expensive
Had a PCV failure, because its hard to get to it to fix it and the only way to fix it is a replacement, endup getting a dealer to fix it, it was expensive

Polestar tune is a meme, dont get it, weak gains, no torque limiter delete for the auto models and way too overpriced, also not available in every country

I wish I had a manual, but there are only 74 manual C30T5 in brazil, and people price them way too high because of it, shit sucks
And the limiter is there because volvo doesnt want to change the tranny fluid under warranty, so they limit the amount of torque the engine makes to save some bucks, actual gears can take 400hp tunes fine, you just need to change the fluids more often

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ive got the stage 1 shark performance tune right now, sitting at 258hp/296ftlb tq.
was originally at stage 3 making 310hp but shit got weird that that point

i agree the car feels pretty pigfat. im sick of the annoying fuckhuge turning radius. i wish the c30 was either rwd or awd