New S40 20D failure

[AGlivar - CroAstro.com]

I buy new S40 20D. Like a dream. I seat in car on parking in front of Volvo
store and than red "triangle of death" turn on and

car wrote to me: "brake failure. stop safely". I am not drive it at all!! I
wait it three mont's for this car and I cannot drive this car

from Volvo dealer where I buy it (on car was 7 km drive). Service take me to
check system and cannot find failure. After

reset car computer and some software updates (car was assembled on 18.
june), car go well and I drive to home. But after 5

km, again same message! I must stop, car did not turn on again. After half
hour come man from service, doing something

around a fuse box and car start again. I leave car in service for further
diagnostic.... I am very disappointment with my brand

new car...I did not expect this from Volvo! Have anybody similar experience
or I am one on 1000! What it will be? Now I wait..


Andjelko Glivar
Croatia
Europe

 

[Rob Guenther]

It sounds like an intermittent sensor problem to me. I know nothing about
the new S40, but when sensors in general give off funny readings, computers
interpret them in different ways, yours thinks it has a brake failure. What
it most likely has is an intermittent failure of a sensor somewhere in the
brake system, most likely due to a manufacturing flaw (ie: supplier problem,
not a real Volvo assembly problem - this could indicate that the S40 has
cheap sensors installed in it)

 

[A. Glivar - CroAstro]

I forgot to tell, in same time indicator of motor temperature drop down and
accelerator clutch dont work.