Test Drive Volvo S40 since 2007 Sedan
Volvo S40: Proud loneliness
In the Golf Class Supermarket, the assortment of the premium department is pretty SCUD, and the sedan in it is at all alone. But this product of the famous Scandinavian brand in the secondary market is significantly cheaper than German products. Take? Buffet
If the first fortification, produced from 1995 to 2004 in the Netherlands, was very close to Mitsubishi Carisma, then the second generation machine, the birthplace of which was the Belgian city of Ghent, was built on the global Ford Platform C1 that the most as the basis of popular We have Focus and Mazda3.
However, buyers S40 with mileage is only on hand. The fact that the car belongs to the prestigious and respected brand, no doubt is: it looks like a deafness restrained and at the same time aristocratic, and on the quality of finishes, noise insulation and equipping the Swedno is noticeably better than its promotional relatives.
The range of S40 aggregates managed to significantly lengthen due to stocks from the Ford nomenclature, therefore the owners of cars who moved the guarantee were able to serve their car using Ford parts, consumables and individual partitions at prices that are significantly lower than Volvovsky.
All of the above fully applies to the practical version of the V50, which, despite a higher index in the designation, nothing else, except the body, is not different from the sedan, and there is absolutely the same money on the secondary market.
Finally, with due diligence, lovers of the incendiary Drive will be able to find hot versions of T5, and even such extreme modifications at a three-year age are estimated at no more than 850,000 rubles. It remains to find out how reliable this car is.
Prevention and nothing more (body and its electrical equipment)
The car is painted very high quality, therefore, after 45 Moscow winged body, avoiding serious damage and handicraft repair of the copy looks quite decent. Even at such a favorite corrosive places, which traditionally is considered the edge of the hood, the lid of the trunk, the frame of the windshield and the thresholds, you are unlikely to detect paint blisters and rust foci. Not afraid of anti-rolling chemistry and radiators. However, mechanics recommend cleaning them at least once every two years. The operation is not cheap: for the removal, disassembly and flushing of parts in the brand service will ask about 16 thousand rubles. But the replacement of the fan electric motor that ordered the electric motor, tortured with necessity, constantly blowing the scoring dust, mud and the radiator, will be more expensive. Also, it is not necessary to save on steel protection of the engine compartment: cars with a broken engine crankcase pallet and air conditioner compressor on dealerships were made a lot.
The problems associated with the electrical equipment of the cabin are alone. It is curious that the glitches placed on the front panel of the ignition lock, which does not always recognize the key, as well as the creaking and twisting valves of climate control air ducts met exclusively on the machines of the first two years of release, and to date, S40 got rid of the specified misfortunes. Swedish engineers could not only finally cure a signaling siren. No, it does not yell when she is thinking, however, in the work of its control module, there are sometimes failures that are introduced into a stupor interacting device with it and hinder the san bus. Completely reliable (transmission)
In the S40 Arsenal, released until 2008, there are five different gearboxes. Ford Motors are combined with hand 5-speed IB5 and MTX75. Engines developed directly by Volvo engineers are laid 5- and 6-speed M56 and M66 aggregates, as well as AW55 ACP, created by Iizin and Borg Warner engineers. And the cars of the 40th series is the happiest case when you can choose any box without feasible, because they are all quite trustworthy. Even the Japanese-American automatic machine, which often delivered the problems to the owners of the crossovers XC90 and the sedans of the first generation of the first generation, on easier forty, behaves exclusively.
There is no reason to complain about clutch, which in general is at least one hundred thousand. But it should be remembered that expensive two-volume flywheels are installed on the row Swedish fives, and in order not to get to the purchase of a new part (46,000 rubles for a 2,4-liter motor), the clutch must be changed at the very first signs of its inadequate work. As for all-wheel drive versions, they were sold extremely small, so there are rarely on the secondary market. However, on those copies that still fell into the hands of masters, problems with connecting rear wheels The Haldex coupling was not observed.
In full bloom (engines)
With Motors S40 / V50 - the same story as with boxes. You can take anyone you like. Yes, each of them was at first there were their cockroaches, but by 2007 almost all of them were successfully exhausted by Swedish engineers. The problem of incidence of the inspection lamp of the Intrin Check Lamp (electronics did not suit the composition of the fuel and air mixture) on machines with 2,4-liter engines managed to defeat the new software of the control unit. It happened that on the same engines due to the malfunction of the oil separator of the ventilation system of crankcase gases, the glands began to hilt. With the new Bach, nothing like this happens.
The only thing that is still not like to love five are short working cycles without warm-up, when, say, you need to start the car to drive it literally a few meters. In this case, gasoline simply floods the candles, and it is not a fact that the next time it turns out to start the engine.
The unstable operation of the Ford engine volume of 1.8 liters won with the help of a new program for the throttle control unit.
In the course of operation, it turned out that the Volvovsky candles on the Ford motors are much better than their relative motors digest our fuel. Having improved fuel pumps, engineers have overcome and the periodic reluctance most of the early S40 / V50 motors will start the first time. In general, looking after the car of the neat owner, who regularly visited everything, in most cases, get a good unit. It should only be remembered that it is still not worth refueling, and the prophylactic flushing of the choke and the injection nozzles will be worth it.
The diesel versions of the mechanics are not recommended: we did not officially sell such machines, because it is extremely rare on the market.
Include not hold (chassis and steering)
The reliability of the suspension of this Volvo can be called hardly not exemplary: front and rear levers, bushings and stabilizer racks, steering tracts and tips Official dealers do not even keep in warehouses! In the warranty period, these details very rarely require a replacement unless on copies that visited accidents. Hardened and shock absorbers who have adequate owners quietly climb up to 8090 thousand km. The only faint place of the car front hubs: somewhere to 70 thousand bearing can die. But this problem was characteristic of predominantly early cars By 2007, the Swedes successfully solved it.
No complaints and brakes. The front pads on average walk at 2530 thousand km, rear twice as long. The wheels, as a rule, are experiencing two sets of pads.
We buy? Not the most advanced, but tested engines, simple and exceptionally reliable suspension, excellent corrosion resistance of the body of S40 with mileage, which can be purchased at very attractive prices by 3040% cheaper than asking for a new car. Without exaggeration, none of the Volvo competitors does not look such a wonderful offer to buy in second hands. So, if you try to buy a 34-year sedan S40 or its universal version of the V50, we do not have the slightest reason in order to discourage you.
A source: Behind the wheel
