For Traduk: Re V70 Electrical Problem

Many thanks for your advice of 9 June: this morning I drove to a local
spares dealer to buy a new battery, and as luck would have it, the old
battery died on their forecourt! They fitted the new on in about five
minutes, and hey presto!, no more problems.

Thanks again

Martin

 

Hi Martin,

Thanks for replying. It is good to hear that your problems are over.
My battery took a few weeks to die and caused a bit of head
scratching. I have replaced many batteries in different cars that I
have owned but the Volvo ('99 V70 T5) is the only car which has shown
all sorts of strange lights as the battery failed. I believe that the
on-board computers and sensors are very fussy about the voltage and
earth rail levels and will throw up faults if everything doesn't
trigger properly.

You were lucky that it made it to the spares dealer but it is nice to
know that beyond any doubt that the new battery was an expense that
was needed.

Regards, Traduk