2001 VOLVO S80

Really wanted this car to be better!

Comfort Rating: 4 Performance Rating: 3 Interior Rating: 3 Reliability Rating: 1 Safety Rating: 4 Technology Rating: 2

We bought a 2001 S80 with 50,000 miles on it. We kept this car a year and a half and put 40,000 miles on it. I really wanted this to be a great car, but we had nothing but trouble with it. When we bought it the dealer asked if we wanted the warranty and I said no because I know people who had over 300,000 miles on their Volvo's and had no trouble. I should have bought the warranty. We had it about 6 weeks when the ABS module went out. That cost about $800 to fix. A few months after that the car would just die when it was in gear. We got stuck in a traffic jam in Dallas and everytime the car stopped it shut off. I had to keep it in neutral and rev it to keep it from dying. We took it back to the dealership after we got back home and it had a software glitch in the computer. We have several little things that happened also but the final straw was when the transmission went out at 90,000 miles. We finally just traded the car off. It was a super comfortable car and it was great on trips when it worked well. I'm 6'4" and I had plenty of room in the car. It had the potential of being a great car, but the repairs and the glitches just ruined it. Be careful when looking at an early 2000's S80!