Great tips about modern Volvo’s. After 3 years of ownership of a V40, I am still finding out about its features from watching your video’s and then applying them to my car. Many thanks.
I knew pretty much most of the video. I'm on my third volvo in 32 years. The thing I wanted to mention, that folding mirrors is available ONLY in certain model packages. My 2012 s80 does not have folding mirrors. I have to fold them by hand. It does have the memory like shown for tilting the mirror lenses. Nice video.
I must congratulate you on your outstanding, professional grade videos. I hope Volvo HQ in Sweden is giving you an "attaboy" on these too. I own a 2009 like yours only with black lower interior, brushed aluminum trim (instead of the wood look) and a tan headliner. Your hidden secrets are amazing. I can't believe these arein the owner's documentation. I am going to read the owners manual from beginning to end to refresh my memory with your secrets. I had no idea any of these features even existed. I have never owned a Volvo until I bought mine used 2009 from a friend last year with only 80,000 km on it. It had never seen winter until I bought it. He is the original owner and he wintered in Naples Florida. The car was stored in a heated underground condo parking lot during the Canadian winters. My XC70 is equipped the some Thule add-ons (roof boxes - Thule 612 Hyper XL in silver and black large that matches my paint and the low profile Thule Flow 606). I also have the Thule EasyFold 9032 bike rack that mounts in the hitch receiver and carries two mountain bikes. I will be posting some pictures of my configuration once the snow melts here in Toronto. All of my interior car mats including the rear cargo area are custom designed by WeatherTech. I have one set for winter and another lighter set for the warmer weather. Barry T.
Worked perfectly. I've tried several maintenance reminder clearing suggestions for my 2013 S60 T5 AWD and this was the first to work. You are a problem solver, many thanks. Now, if Volvo would have solved the oil ring issue for the T5 engine of this year, I'd be a happy owner.
THANK YOU! OMG! Last time Good Year changed the oil for $100 and they could not reset the service reminder in 30 minutes!!!! Thank to you I did in 3 minutes. From now on I am in charge. You inspired me to do my 1st personal hands on oil change tomorrow and I'm over 50. Dealership wants to charge $110 plus I would have to drive 2:40 minutes round trip costing around $90 plus the wait time probably another 2-3 hours. I have the Castrol Edge oil and the filter for $50. So basically Doing the job myself saves me $150 minus my work. Still at least $100.
I drive audi a3 right now and after watching this video i found out that its the same on it. Probably all VAG autos where you can raise the windshield vipers
Thank you!! I tried following 5+ other videos on resetting the service reminder that didn’t work until I found this one and it finally did :) quick and easy to follow
I have recently purchased a 2010 xc70 with 67k. Original owner, looks brand new! I loved it yesterday, and love it now even more since I found your channel. I have always worked on all my vehicles and thought, I may not do so well with this…you’ve fixed that! Thank you and to answer your question….I knew none of these, but knew them on all my other cars! Thank you for the time it takes to do this, no small feat in itself.
"I never knew of this feature until I open the owners manual". What a great reminder! (lol, seriously). I didn't know about the wipers service position; neither the tail lights working as brake lights with the tailgate open. (It didn't apply to my vehicle, S-80). Very informative, detail oriented, and easy to follow video. Thank you
Did know about resetting service reminder, didn't know about wiper service position, didn't know about reversing mirrors but did know about folding in/out. Didn't know about brake lights with tailgate up, excellent video, thank you!
The green pull for the fuel flap is really useful.... I had the light come fuel flap moduel go wrong on me and you need this to get the fuel flap open to get fuel in. The Volvo garage manager didn't know about this when mine went wrong...thanks for the tips.
As a fairly new Volvo driver i found this video very useful. Ive read about wiper service position and mirrors in the manual, but the rest i did not know about. Thank you!
I found out mirrors parking function about 2 years ago, by being bored in my volvo while waiting for my wife. I was always wondering how many owners know about that function. it was my personal "holy grail" hahaha no more , BTW You are doing awesome job ! keep it up
Thank you , thank you, and thank you! I finally got my message of “service” off! My husband changes my oil on my s80 and this light has been on for years! Hahaha. Much appreciate 😉
Just picked up a 2011 S60 Volvo and your video thought me so much. I'm still reading through the owners manual but with work there isn't enough time to learn everything. 7 mins and I learned several thing's. Thanks buddy
Volvo for Life,the 940 car saved my family from serious collision with a trailer at 120km/h in Malaysia, my son dozed off a split second. The front bumper was not scratched, the front headlights and side fenders and bonnet saved us from the impact. Volvo for life. 👏👍
I have a 2012 XC70, and just as you say, I can use the L & R buttons to lower the mirrors, or press both to fold them. I can also go into the car’s settings and indicate that I want either or both mirrors to lower automatically when the car is put in reverse, and I can also indicate that I want the side mirrors to automatically fold when I put the car in park. I imagine this is the same for other years and trim levels.
It might be a model year thing, what year is your S80? Ours is a last of the P2 '06 registered model, D5 SE Lux, and not sure if it does the dipping thing yet. I believe it can be programmed on VIDA/DICE though if it's not enabled.
OK just checked, so late P2 S80 in SE Lux UK spec does not have either dipping side mirrors or auto window up/down enabled despite having most other stuff, still believe it's an option through VIDA/DICE though. Will update if/when I get a copy.
Thanks for the tip with the mirror going down when you reverse. I used to own a VW and this is a standard feature... but I didn’t know my Volvo has it as well.
Excellent. You showed resetting the maintenance reminder while set at T1. Many US models must be set to T2 as I show in my video. Brake lights working with the tail gate up are good to know. My mirrors are programmed to fold on my S80 and there is a button on my XC90. The curb view is nice I will have to see if I have that feature. Thank you for your videos.
I love the simple dash display on Volvo cars. I love that a Volvo 240dl saved my parents life's. The highway patrol officer said any other car you'd be killed. No joke Volvo's are solid well built cars.
Your videos are always of very high quality and very informative. And most of the stuff you talk about also carries over to my S80 of the same generation. Keep em' coming!
@@volvosweden got a 2010 XC60 my roof courtesy lights also visor lights not working while floor and rear inside back hatch light working checked all fuses there good also power window button not working
THANK YOU! I was looking for how to turn off the maintenance light and had no idea those other features were available at all! I'll be experimenting with them as soon as I have a minute to sit and try them!! Especially liked the windshield wiper feature - good to know when there's freezing rain in the forecast!
You can gently tap on accelerator to release electronic parking brakes instead of pulling the parking brakes. However, the following 3 conditions must apply to make it work: - 1. Engine is turned on. 2. Transmission is in D or R 3. Seatbelt is fastened
In addition you can access mirror fold and reversing “Dip” feature through the My XC70 interface screen in the dash. Later models only. Through this you can have mirrors dip automatically upon reverse without touching mirror buttons ever. Upon selecting drive they revert to previous normal position.
I knew non of these features - all of your Volvo videos are very informative, and you have debunked a lot of the myths that had me not liking my wife's xc70. I just believed it when people said there was very little you could work on yourself
I love your videos! I thought I read the manual properly, but obviously I missed some parts. The windswiper-feature is great - I was wondering about the annoying design which I didn't encounter in other cars. But this way it makes sense! The previous owner obviously also didn't know about it, as the hood already has some damage at the edge where the swipers touch it.
I reset my Maintenance Overdue feature this morning thanks to you, so Thank You very much for that. We've own three Volvo's and will buy a fourth when it's time to. I love my car already, but I love it a little more thanx to you. The windshield wiper feature will come in handy when washing the car. That always annoyed me, but not anymore.
Some good tips here. I'm going to try the single parking mirror tip. Having used the double parking mirror feature for years I turned it off as it took too long to reset and I like being able to use the mirror when pulling out in traffic as well as turning my head to see. I wouldn't call the brake lights function a safety feature though, if you are driving with your boot open there is a possibility of drawing in exhaust gases into the vehicle. Keep up the good work!
Hi mr Volvo Sweden. Thanks very much for your clear and precise information on how to reset maintenance text on Volvo s80. You were very articulate and on sport.
Thank-you ; I own the same car as you, and all the "other" info. for resetting the maintenance due display DIDN'T WORK, and were wrong. Your method worked the first time. You showed me a few other things I didn't know how to do, as well.
True, as our V60 doesn't have auto seats and it can be a pain in the ass sharing as I find the reach awkward and miss the mirror function reversing. Not a deal breaker though as the V60 is a great car!
msw600 my XC70 and S60 R-Design is nearly fully loaded and neither have have the folding mirror from the button.. the S60 however when you park it the mirrors do auto fold in but on buttons you can’t do that.. my XC70 Volvo also only does the right side mirror down from the button not left side and no folding option.... both cars have electric seats all around and winter packages too! I asked the dealership they plugged into the computers and said they cannot change the parameters on my wagon and they did confirm it should be able to. However I do have a V90 and that does all these things and has those Swedish flags tugged into corners I assume means export market car.. I got it used (dealer owned) for amazing deal, $38,000 fully loaded!
Thanks to your video I now know all of the things you showed in the video. The only two things I did not know was the break/tail light work with the hatch open and the gas door 'hidden opener', now I know. Thank you , Bill
Another great video Volvosweden thank you. I did not know that mirrors would dip in reverse I have missed this feature from my S60 on which I had the CFE from volvo tech. Also I knew about the wipes service position but have never been able to do it - now I can thank you. Would love to see more videos like this and I can't wait for you to do your steering wheel as it's a mod I would like to do. Also I do prefer the videos with your commentary. Cheers 👍
+Robert Witherden Excellent feedback. Steering wheel is on its way from Sweden. I will do my best to do commentary on every video. Thank you for the feedback.
My 2013 Volvo V60 doesn't have the mirror feature. I assume it was because it doesn't have memory power seats/mirrors for each driver. I do miss it as it helps parallel parking and helps avoid hitting the rims.
This was very informative. I did not know about the brake light feature when the tailgate was open. What a great and very Swedish safety idea. As you say, the owners manual has a lot of useful information and now I will go out and see if my 2014 XC60 right-hand drive model has the same features
Thanks for your work here very interesting, I recently had a alternator issue which resulted in a flat battery and could not get gear lever out of park, even the RAC recovery didn't know that trick with key, we had to jump car to pull my car onto recovery truck bed.
Owned my 2012 XC60 for 7 weeks now. I read the owner's manual but still didn't know about the manual fuel door opener. Very nice to have that redundancy. Pretty much everything you said here is in the manual though. I guess the point of the video is always read your manual!!! Mu XC60 has a settings menu where you can program the mirrors to do that every time you put it in reverse. Not sure if it will do it at the touch or l or r mirror button though. Will have to try! Would be very useful as a rideshare driver!
Great tip on the wiper blades. I have always popped the hood to gain access to the wipers - your way is better. My XC90 mirrors fold automatically, but sometimes they fold by themselves and you cannot get them to return to their normal position. It took me a call to Volvo to discover the "press both mirrors" buttons to get them to return to their normal position. Thanks
Did you know that you can open and close your Windows with your Key? Just hold down the unlock botton for 3-4sek and your front windows will go down, and if you hold down the lock botton your windows will go up :)
+Alexander Johansson This does not work on my XC70! I did try. It even does not appear in owners manual. I do want to reprogram it at the dealer because its a really nice option to have.
volvosweden Hmm strange I tought every XC/V70 had that option but maybe they changed it on the export models :s Its a really nice option, Its so annoying if you forget the windows down and have to go back to the car and put in the key in the ignition and roll them up xD
It is. All my Volvos have done this and I tested my sister's VW Golf, works too. Must be software needed. My auto window wouldn't go up without keeping my finger on it. This was after a software up date. I tried re-setting it to no avail. The Volvo garage had to give it a little software patch!
Mirror feat. is only available with powerseats. Then you also have the built in fault code reader, but that isn´t mentioned in the OM :-) Good work love your videos, keep it up!!
Oh my gosh thank you for the mirror trick! I cannot tell you how many times I’ve thrown my purse in the back, got in the driver seat and realize the mirrors were still folded while the car was running and I couldn’t figure out any other way to open them without locking the doors, putting the key Outside the car, and opening the door to make the mirrors come back out!
Very good & informative video. Thanks a lot. Keep them coming. I have 2011 S80. 1to ask: when parking at R gear I press right rear mirror button the mirror moves downward and inward (toward the car) but the left rear mirror moves downward and outward (away from the car). Is this the original setting? I would prefer left rear mirror would also move inward (towards the car) is there a way to set it? 2to share: (stg simple but nice) A.when your car is not working and you open the trunk back brake lights light up to make sure your car becomes visible and protects the person at the back. B.Electric hand break P releases itself automatically if you fasten seat belt and press gas after starting the engine.
Great, gonna reset the service reminder. i service my car at volvo about once each year, normaly in the spring time to make sure the car is fit to pull my caravan. altho i do minor "service" on the car now and then but since i drive so much with it the service light comes on after a cupple of months since my last service. good to know i can turn it off.
Firstly: How on earth did RU-vid come to put this in my recommends? I've been looking at XC70s in the UK in Autotrader, but I don't use Google, I use Firefox and DDG. Time for a VPN perhaps? Secondly: I had convinced myself to go for the older, simpler model, 2004-2007, 185bhp D5. Now I see how cool the newer models are... bugger!
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You are full of helpful Volvo info! We purchased 2nd hand XC 70 eight years ago, and have been very pleased with the car. However, I am not so good with reading the manual and utilizing the info. You have presented the above info in a VERY clear manner, and I will be checking into your site in the future. Thanks, Cindy
