Someone asked this a month or so ago. No one had an answer....

http://www.volvo-forums.com/index.php?show...432&hl=door+jam

 

S60R
Hey - thanks for the reply, maybe someone will come up with an answer.
It's just another one of those things that piss me off about Volvo's.
I've now got enough to compile a list.
In no particular order -

1. Radio information screen sits at an angle just right to catch the glare from the windows, enough to prevent me actually seeing what it's displaying - except at night.
2. Rear view mirror doesn't dim quickly enough or dark enough to prevent me being blinded by those BMW drivers behind me.
3. Boot lid isn't quite big enough to be practical - don't get me wrong - the boot is enormous but the lid is too small.
4. I should have realised when I bought it - no rear wiper. OK it's a saloon and I've always had hatchbacks, it just didn't occur to me at the time.
5. An old one - a turning circle like the Titanic!
6. No lights-on reminder - I had the daylight running lights disabled so I can switch to sidelights or OFF. When I switch to sidelights like when I go through a security checkpoint on the way to work in the mornings (I switch to s/l so I don't blind the guys at the gate on dark mornings), and forget that I have, invariably when I leave work at the end of the day my battery is flat. This has happened several times and of all the things that piss me off the most this is tops.
7. It'd be nice if they had some sort of holder for your sunglasses/reading glasses.
8. Leave the radio on for more than 15 minutes without running the engine and it'll flatten you battery - what other car does that ?
9. All the flakey electronics that control this space shuttle, Thank God it's not a survival capsule (although in a way it is - crikey!). You only have to scan through this forum to see that odd things happen for no particular logical reason and it mostly all comes back to the 15 or 17 (can't quite remember the exact figure) on-board computers and associated networking.

Heres a hint Volvo - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

 

QUOTE(Bannerman @ Apr 7 2007, 04:54 PM)9. All the flakey electronics that control this space shuttle, Thank God it's not a survival capsule (although in a way it is - crikey!). You only have to scan through this forum to see that odd things happen for no particular logical reason and it mostly all comes back to the 15 or 17 (can't quite remember the exact figure) on-board computers and associated networking.

Heres a hint Volvo - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

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I have a '67 Austin Healey, so I know a thing or two about flakey electrical systems, ,but it does seem as if Volvo engineers go out of their way to add that extra layer of complication.

Even in our old 740, which was very basic, the Volvo electricals had problems. How difficult can it be to have solid grounding points?

Of course now with all the fancy shmacy doodads our S60 is several fold more prone to problems. You'd think the engineers get paid by some algorithm that rewards extra wiring, additional components, untraceable current paths, and only dealer serviceable maintenance