Battery Problems of Volvo S40

2006 Volvo S40, fwd my wife was driving on the interstate around midnight going approx. 75-80 mph when all of a sudden her car shut off. When I say shut off I mean the headlights, dome lights, engine. . . . Anything that was electrical completely shut off. This would include the steering wheel locking up. So imagine driving in the middle of the night at 80 mph with traffic around you and you're lights going out, steering wheel locking and having no way to control the vehicle. To me this sounds like a 80 mph invisible torpedo that could have killed a few people including my wife. I had the vehicle towed to the nearest dealership which was a Ford dealership and the next morning they diagnosed it as a dead battery, which they were correct. Now I'm no rocket surgeon by any means but to me this sounds like a flaw in the safety dept. Somewhere. Something as trivial as a dead battery would cause a catastrophic failure like that? I think it's something that needs to be brought to the attention of the manufacturer and some sort of quality control as well.

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2004 Volvo S40 experiencing problems with the rear tail light assembly. The left rear tail light assembly was intermittent. At night there would be no rear tail lights. The right front park light and the yellow side marker light had gone out as well. The dealer replaced the cem. The vehicle's battery lasted 8 months.

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When accelerating vehicle would down shift gears. The dealership will be notified. The dealer have not been able to duplicate the problem. The transmission jerking occurred, the engine light would come on. There would be a burning oil smell, the gear shifter would not release and would stick intermittently, the steering wheel squeaked and was unable to be duplicated, the windshield wipers would squeak, and the speaker was erratic. Trhe battery was replaced, the tail lights were out, the windshield was replaced.

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