LOUD V70 door popping sound

About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started making
a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It has
gotten progressively louder and now is pretty embarrassing. We had the
dealer look at it and they informed us that we would 'have to take it to a
body shop' to get it repaired.... b/c they can't (reading between the
lines - aren't interested) in fixing it... apparently, the mechanism that
keeps the door from swinging out too fast has worn out. 2 questions:

Has anyone had this issues before; and if so can you give me a ball price I
should expect to pay to fix?
and
If yes to above, did your dealer fix it or did you have to take it to a
'body shop'.

Thanks in advance for anything!

brian
charlotte, nc

 

Costs me about $200 to have my volvo guy re-weld and reinforce the bracket..
Here is a DYI approach
http://au.geocities.com/ozbrick850/door-stay_fix.html

Bill

 

Also, if it isn't broken yet, here is another fix.
http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/hinge.htm

Bill

 

This link might be of interest

http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/hinge.htm

Alas is sounds like your bracket needs to be welded, which would be more
of a body shop type of job

 

I would try to fit NordLock lock washers in order to secure the nuts.
www.nordlock.com

It may thoug be difficult to get the washers in place since it seems to be
such a struggle to get the nuts in position.

/aw

 

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,

This has happened a couple of times on the passenger door (LHS) on my
UK-spec 1999 V70 2.5D. In both cases, nothing was actually broken. The torx
screw only needs to be *slightly* loose for the door to make a really awful
noise.

So the first thing to ty is to get yourself a Torx-40 bit and do the screw
up really tight. That may well fix it. Only if something is cracked is any
welding needed.

 

THANKS everybody for the responses.... Ill see if some of the tightening
suggested will do the trick, if not its off to the welder ! thanks again !