I've noticed that when driving for longer periods of time, these buttons get pretty warm and in my opinion sometimes even hot. The ones on the right side of the steering wheel get warmer than the ones on the left. Has anyone also experienced this?
Hey! I own a 2008 Volvo V50 1.6d manual (that's a completely champion of a practical workhorse) and just completed 65 days of daily driving on one tank (1.05.2026 - 4.07.2026). Completed 1113,4 km (the trip display went to 0 after 999 km, so the 113.4 you see in the picture is without the first 1000 km showing), then filled up the tank back up to the brim 49.23 liters, giving us a calculated real world long term average of 4.42 liters per 100 km or 53 MPG (US) / 64 MPG (Imperial). The car itself is a little more optimistic as you can see, but that's why I prefer the calculated average.
The goal of the experiment was to see the hypermiling effects over a long term basis instead of one ideal conditions long drive, so this is through different temperatures, different weather, early morning to late evening drives, all mixed together. The climate here in the north end of Europe has been between as low as 7 °C in May to as high as 30 °C in June.
Filled the tank on 1st of May 2026 and used the car for my daily driving until yesterday, 4th of July. This period did not see any long highway drives, so is mainly made up of my rather short daily driving to work and other daily trips when necessary, so the average daily length per drive is between 5 and 10 km. I do live outside of the city, so most drives experience very little traffic (I did end up in at least one very heavy traffic jam in the city back in May where I spent somewhere around 45 minutes in a stop and go traffic jam over several kilometers). I do use cruise control a lot, but take over on inclines to change gear and manage the engine load better, also trying to glide as much as possible before I know I have to stop or turn off the road I am on. I have tried pump and glide, but can't quite get the feel for it in a way that feels beneficial.
This means that a lot of the driving is done in less than ideal engine temp etc. On a long highway stretch the car averages around 3.7 L / 100 KM, but this was not the goal of the experiment. Overall I am very pleased with the result, I am sure the car has even more in it and would be interesting to match these results with a tank of fuel spent on mainly highway drives. Thanks for reading!
Hi guys, it's my first post here I hope you can help me... After 3 weeks of having my Volvo for air conditioning repair I finally had it back. The technician replaced two air condition pipes, some o-rings, air condition cooler and checked the evaporator for leak.
Now I observed that while the air condition itself works fine, the middle tunnel from the passenger side is getting really hot (I circled it in the photo) to about 34/35ish degrees. Have you ever met with such an issue? Could the technician forget about thermo isolation somewhere there?
im planning to ideally have a car for life or at least most of it and volvo v50 seems nice something reliable comfortable ride not too complex good looking and there the only option for a wagon else id probably go lexus
Im in the US west coast and was wondering how common it is to see these things as they seem very rare on used markets besides that i was wondering what should i know about making this thing live as long as possible its reliability mods that improve reliability besides obvious maintence retuneing checkups like stronger then stock parts i can get?
has anyone slept in their v50 for more than one night? is it big enough for a couple to go camping for a week or so? thanks in advance :)
222222 miles feels like a decent achievement, have to say I love my V50 . It just goes and doesn’t stop . Yea it has a few electric gemlins , and probably needs a new starter but it’s mine 🤙🏻
Took a peek under the hood at the motor mounts today and my gaze fell onto the 2x as good as normal accessory belt on my T5. Guess it’s time at 102k.
Cruise symbol appears on dash but cruise doesn’t function. Any ideas?
The car has had problems for a couple months now now and I'm starting to lose my mind over it.
It has a diagnostic code "2A30 State: None Particulate Trap".
I've replaced: TCV, air inlet hose (had a split) and fixed the wires for the DPF temperature sensor as they were broken.
It still has the code. The DPF pressure sensor seems to be fine (shows 0-4 hPa now after it regenerated coming from work, before it was like 300 hPa). The hoses seem to be fine. I removed the high pressure hose when the engine was running and the reading was 0 hPa, so I think the sensor itself is alright.
I noticed an air leak (again) coming off the turbo. (See picture) Can it be causing the limp mode? I didn't notice it before fitting the new charge pipe as I think the leak on that was much bigger so the air followed the path of least resistance.
I'm really starting to lose my patience. I don't make much and this car just devours all my money.
It's a 2010 V50 1.6D with 326k km.
Hello fellow V50 owners. On my 2007 V50, the parking brake needs regular adjustment by my local Shop. Since i park downhill, my parking brake is always used ,everyday. It always costs my like 60 to 70 Euro every time , 2 times per years at least. My question is :
Can i do this own my own ? I have good set of Tools, heavy duty jack, Jackstands, and i do work on both my cars regularly. So will one person be ok to do this on my own? From what i've read, there is a part at the rear wheel hub where you use a screwdriver to adjust some kind of tensioner / threaded bar or whatever? And after that you need to adjust the slack in the cable where the parking brake lever is connected to the cable ?
Hey everyone,
I’m having a frustrating issue with my 2010 Volvo V50 1.6D (PSA/Ford engine) and I’m running out of ideas. The car has become painfully slow. Accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h takes about 21 to 25 seconds.
Here is the weird part and what has already been ruled out: No OBD codes, No smoke, Dpf is fine, fuel filter has been changed.
City driving is fine but on the highway i cant get past anyone
Thanks in advance 🚙💨
I’m quite young and new to Volvos, any help would be appreciated. I’ve had my 2010 Volvo V50 1.6D for about a month and have had “reduced engine performance” come up a few times. Latest time I lost all throttle at one point and it would occasionally idle at 1500 rpm, but only if my foot wasn’t on the break pedal. I scanned for codes and got P193b and P1577, both pointing at accelerator pedal position sensor issues. I’ve had a look at the accelerator pedal and it’s only a year old! All the pins look fine and I can’t see anything wrong. I’m obviously wary of getting a new pedal as it’s a genuine part that’s been put on and shouldn’t be faulty after a year? Is there anything obvious that I’m missing or should check?