SpudRacer
02-28-2004, 04:52 PM
Well everyone, you're not going to believe this... we drove to Hendersonville, NC which is quite a drive from Bryson City, NC to finally pick up our XC70 fresh off the boat from Sweden.
As soon as we started it, we heard what sounded like a jet engine starting under the hood!! While it sounded very cool, it wasn't supposed to sound that way.
To make a long story short, we refused to accept the car until they fixed it. A quick check under the hood revealed the cooling fan to not only be running, but running at high speed with the engine ice cold. Apparently it has a low and high speed (news to me). On top of that, we asked for, then demanded a loaner car. Thay had none. They gave us a brand new XC70 off the lot to drive back to Bryson City which now sits in our driveway with 119 miles. It is white (the color the wife originally wanted!!!!!!!http://xc70.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif. We're trying to keep the miles down, but our's needs a new coolant temperature sensor which won't be in until Monday and we can't get off work to drive back down until Wednesday.
Oh well, at least we have AN XC70.
Funny how we logged over 5200 miles on it in Europe without a problem, then it comes in off the boat with a bad sensor?!?! I checked the mileage and it is what we turned the car in at (+ 1 mile). IF memory serves, others had problems upon picking up their XC70 after OSD, problems with the alarm not working if I remember.... seems strange to me, either fishy, or just terrible timing.
Tom & Jenny
P.S. Check out our pictures, we posted a bunch today...
As soon as we started it, we heard what sounded like a jet engine starting under the hood!! While it sounded very cool, it wasn't supposed to sound that way.
To make a long story short, we refused to accept the car until they fixed it. A quick check under the hood revealed the cooling fan to not only be running, but running at high speed with the engine ice cold. Apparently it has a low and high speed (news to me). On top of that, we asked for, then demanded a loaner car. Thay had none. They gave us a brand new XC70 off the lot to drive back to Bryson City which now sits in our driveway with 119 miles. It is white (the color the wife originally wanted!!!!!!!http://xc70.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif. We're trying to keep the miles down, but our's needs a new coolant temperature sensor which won't be in until Monday and we can't get off work to drive back down until Wednesday.
Oh well, at least we have AN XC70.
Funny how we logged over 5200 miles on it in Europe without a problem, then it comes in off the boat with a bad sensor?!?! I checked the mileage and it is what we turned the car in at (+ 1 mile). IF memory serves, others had problems upon picking up their XC70 after OSD, problems with the alarm not working if I remember.... seems strange to me, either fishy, or just terrible timing.
Tom & Jenny
P.S. Check out our pictures, we posted a bunch today...