general problems of the 2000 Volvo C70

I own a 2000 Volvo C70. The car was operating normally driving 65 mph and while driving went into what is called 'limp mode' causing a near crash. This happened a 2nd time later that day. The car now surges at various speed and is unsafe to drive. The car is at a Volvo dealership right now. The dealer indicated that they are aware of this saftey issue (etm failure widespread in these cars) but Volvo is being difficult in authorizing replacement of these etm units despite a 10/year 200,000 extended warranty.

Driving home from theater, smelled electrical type smell. Turned off radio, air conditioner etc. . . We were close to home and it was dark. Parked car. Next morning went out and looked under the hood of car and found a hole in the supplemental fuse box (melted plastic). Pried off and discovered a row of fuses burnt to a crisp. Air is now not working. . . Obviously some type of electrical short or fire. We have had no major work done on car. I have contacted Volvo. Taking car to dealership for inspection.

2000 Volvo C70 lp coupe. Electronic throttle module failure. At approximately 54. 000 miles on the odometer, car started stuttering and bogging intermittently. At 56,000 miles, car would actually die and refuse to start. After shutting car down, the car computer would eventually reset and allow the engine to operate normally. Now, every other day, the car's ets light and check engine light will go on and the car will stall.

The car stalls while at highway speeds. Very dangerous conditions. Stalling occurs without warning.

Driving home from northern wisconsin at 60 mph with the cruise control on. Suddenly the ets (electronic throttle system) light of my 2000 Volvo C70 went on, the cruise control went off and the car would intermittently lose power. I managed to get home and have a local mechanic look at it. He could not find anything and only replaced the gas filter. The following (last) weekend, making the same trip, the ets light went on and stayed on most of the trip. The cruise control would not work and the car performance declined dramatically. The day after I got home (mon, aug1) I took it to a Volvo dealer who charged me $975 (!!) for a new ets. The car has only 55,000 miles on it.

Ets failure.

Electronic throttle problems - ets light is currently on, and has been on in the past.

(1) engine degraded performance. . . Felt like engine was 'missing' and rpm's surged. (2) engine completely stopped in heavy morning rush hour traffic. (3) electronic throttle sensor failed and was replaced by stillman Volvo. Old part unavailable by us. Perhaps Volvo may have it. Incident date is a rough estimate as I do not have the receipt here at work.

2000 Volvo C70 06/28/03. Cross country trip from az to mn. Complete loss of power at highway speed- 1st through narrow canyon with loss of braking power and steering control resulting in dangerous emergency stop. I contacted Volvo 24hr assistance- Volvo tech advised me how to reset vehicle computer (turning door lock cylinder 3 times). Failure recurred throughout journey home (remaining occurrences were anticipated and I was able to execute controlled stop). Throttle body replaced by Volvo on 06/30/05 at a cost of $896. 76. I am aware from a recent news article that there are several complaints regarding this type of failure in this model Volvo. I have retained Volvo repair order from incident.

While driving the vehicles' components , which is operated by the electrical system will go out intermittently without warning. The dealership has serviced the vehicle several times for this problem, but they can't find anything wrong. Problem still continues. Ph.