Car Accelerates On Its Own Problems of Volvo V70

Over the past three years or so, I have had four or five incidences involving sudden acceleration of my 2002 Volvo station wagon v-70. All have occurred in city driving not on the open highway. Once when parking, I almost rammed another parked vehicle because, after applying the brake, my Volvo suddenly lurched ahead. I swerved, pressed harder on the brake and put the car in neutral. I then stopped. On other occasions, mostly when coming to a stop at a traffic light, the car slows down and then surges ahead, after applying the brake. Once again, to stop the car I had to slam down hard on the brake and put the car into neutral. On other occasions, after stopping at a traffic light or stop sign, the engine revs up to the point that I have to put it into neutral to stop the revving. I have brought the car into the martens Volvo dealer and explained the problem each time I brought it in for servicing. They have adjusted the "throttle mechanism" each time but the problem still persists.

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My wife was driving our Volvo xc (2001) back from the grocery store. In exiting the store parking lot she had make a left turn onto rt. 24w in mendham, NJ from a stop sign. As she got on to the single lane highway the car stalled leaving her without power in the middle of a single lane highway with our 2 year old son in the back seat. Incoming traffic suddenly had to come to a stop in order not to hit her car. She was able to move the car to the side of the road and restart it and make the 5 minute trip back home. The car was not able to make the slight incline up the driveway. The next morning I was able to start the car and take it to the Volvo dealer. All along the trip the felt like it was going to stall any minute. I kept a constant speed and did not take any chances with sudden acceleration or passing. After the dealer service department looked at the car I was informed that the throttle assembly needed to be replaced. The repair cost me $1004. 52. (I kept the repair invoice) the car had 56157 miles on it and had just come off the manufacturers warranty. I called Volvo north America to complain and they said somebody would get back to me. I then got a call from the dealer. Apparently Volvo passed the buck the dealer and all they told me was that they simply repaired my car. After reading about your probe of Volvo cars specific to the kind of problem we had I decided to file a complaint.

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1999 Volvo xc V70. Consumer states vehicle the would hesitate and then suddenly accelerate. The consumer stated the dealer informed him the vehicle was too old for warranty repairs concerning the etm components.

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While outside of car, consumer opened door and reached hand in to turn key (wanted to roll up windows), car started/accelerated rapidly, knocking consumer over.

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