Tag: volvo
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Volvo XC60: don’t change your oil or, if you do, how to get dealers to blame each other when your headlight falls off
Regular readers of my blog know that I bought Tricia a Volvo XC60 about a couple of years ago. She loves it — but I maintain it. Or, should I say, Volvo dealers maintain it. Or they are supposed to for the next 2.5 years as part of Volvo’s “Safe+Sound” program. S+S was an extension…
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Saved by a digital washing machine
Want to know one of the pitfalls of a car with “keyless drive” — the amazingly cool technology that lets you simply walk up to the car, open it, climb in, start it and drive away? You are certain to completely forget about the remote, leaving it in the clothes you last wore or in…
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Old school and why it can be so cool
If you follow my blog — and you know you should — you also know that I’ve been writing about cars a lot lately. It’s because I have mastered stretching the car buying process for as long as a year. Between research, taking delivery overseas and waiting for the car to be shipped home, that’s…
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We pick up Tricia’s new car in Sweden
Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden. I’m writing this as Tricia catches a nap – she’s a little jet lagged. How jet-lagged? Well, she fell asleep in a tram while touring a car factory today. A very LOUD car factory. That, my friends, is jet-lag. But I am getting ahead of myself. It took us longer than…