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Picked up the beast yesterday from the gent who I purchased it from in Milton Keynes. The car is a 2004 MY '53' Plate XC90 2.9 T6 SE. First registered Jan '04 supplied by H R Owen, Nth London. The gent who I purchased it from was the car's second owner and he had purchased it as used from Pilling Volvo Milton Keynes.
The car has only travelled 63,500 miles from new (I've nearly done 500 since picking it up!!) and is MOT'd until Jan 2012 (has only covered 4,500 since last MOT), Taxed until year end and has full service history upto 60k. Next Service due at 72k. All four tyres are Michelin Diamaris 235/60 18 and have over 6mm tread on all. The timing belt has already been done at 61k courtesy of Volvo Car UK!!!!!. The reason for this is tha the owner had noticed an oil leak and took the car in to Pilling. They stripped the head and diagnosed that the head gasket was at fault, replaced it and fitted a new timing belt & tensioners all at the same time and the bill was picked up under Volvo Selekt warranty.
Granted, I know that the XC90 is not a speed freaking monster, despite this the T6 power plant does get the beast to 60 in 9 seconds but once it kicks in, the twin turbo power delivery certainly gives you a firm kick. Suddenly everything blurs around you and the muppet in a tranny van who was riding on your tailgate is a blip in the rear view mirror. It sure is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
All is not rosy though, I do have a couple of gripes......
1. I need to replace the pads & discs all round and new handbrake shoes. All are just on the borderline in my opinion. Immediate fix. (this week)
2. Passenger door mirror is cracked and needs to be replaced. Short term fix (next few weeks)
3. Both headlight lenses are showing the tell tale "milkyness" clouding that affects the XC90. Short term fix (next few weeks)
4. Why in the hell did Volvo oversee the design & installation of a "Premium" Dolby Pro-Logic sound system that doesnt have at least one auxilliary input but also could sound better? Long terrm fix (>6 months)
So all in all despite the gripes there are many more postives and I is a happy bunny and that is all that matters.
Plans?
Nothing really firm at the moment other than the brakes.
In terms of the stereo, in order to get the iPhone connected I can't live forever with an FM transmitter and retuning every five minutes, so I might look at means & methods of integration. Can't use the USA -SPEC or iMiv as the XC90'c stereo isnt MELBUS based. The infotaiment on the 90's is MOST fibre optic based so that then leads me to look at a Dension Gateway 500 (circa £300) and I'll cover this in a separate thread.
Tuning? Exhaust? - Wait and see. Nothing firmly in mind yet. Might end up keeping it stock.
The princely sum for this beastie? I'll just say that I got it at an absolute steal
(mucha mucha filthy lucre below book)So without further ado here's some piccies.......
(sorry for the crap quality & for some godforsaken reason, depsite editing the pics on Photobucket, the links have not pulled up the edits
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Edited by Keyser Soze, 17 July 2011 - 20:38 .
I like the look of the XC90, personally if i had a petrol though, it'd have to be the fuel gobbling V8 or the D5 but have it remapped 
.....try driving one fully laden while towing a horse trailer, I couldn't think of anything better suited to the task ...we love the one we use (same T6 AWD)
, near silence with minimal road noise and the gorgeous growl of the T6 when the go pedal is plunged down and the world goes by in a blur..... 
