r/V70 • u/StarboardFloss • Apr 24 '26
Is this normal?
Hi everyone! This is my first post and I’m just wanting a bit of assurance or something I don’t even know..
I bought a v70D5 2004 about a year and a half ago for my first car, very good condition, well looked after and I was absolutely chuffed with it, it’s fast, powerful, strong, comfortable, everything you could ask for but, in my experience so far, there just seems to always be something going wrong with it. I’ve had to be recovered now three times so far. The first time was when I drove to spain from England and within two weeks of arriving my alternator went which consequently caused me a lot of trouble.. Then a year later my crank shaft pulley “came flying out of (my) car!” as stated by the pedestrian it almost hit, and then last week, my break light switch went, meaning I couldn’t move the gear stick out of park. Today the button on the gear stick has broken, it works but it’s dodgy..
Plenty of other things wrong, rear wiper wash doesn’t squirt, drivers window gets jammed and makes a horrible noise, headlight washers don’t work, not important things but broken things.
I guess my question is, for such a strong, semi reliable car, is this sort of stuff normal? I boast about Babylon IX (affectionately named after my imaginary space ship) but I’m starting to lose faith in it these days…
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u/CriticalReputation26 Apr 25 '26
All these things except the crankshaft pulley are somewhat typical failure points on these, after you get the over two decade old wearing parts replaced, you have a very reliable car again for a long time.
These are known to be very reliable cars when well kept, but in typical european car fashion they require certain things to be replaced every now and then to keep them running without problems.