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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / November 2004V40 brakes - poor braking for a minute in morning.
Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold startup lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre changed a vacume hose with no improvement. Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open from inside. In an earlier contribution to this discussion, > Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold > startup lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre > changed a vacume hose with no improvement. > Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always > open from inside. What do you want us to do about it?  SignatureCheers, Bonnet Lock ______ Please reply to newsgroup. Reply address is invalid. | Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold startup | lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre changed a vacume | hose with no improvement. | Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open | from inside. How interesting. don't know about the door, but a friend had a similar problem with brakes in his Audi.... Very weak for the first few minutes, but then seemed normal. Found out it was a vacuum leak in the hose from the brake booster to the intake manifold... guess it took a little while for the vacuum to build up enough to give good braking action. Suggest you have that part of the system checked.... if they replaced a hose, that might be the area, but perhaps they didn't do it right???? Check with volvo I think there is a recall about water getting into a vacuum pump that messes with the brakes. Good luck. >Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold startup >lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre changed a vacume >hose with no improvement. >Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open >from inside. I took my '01 S40 (85K miles) in to the dealer and they had 3 recalls on my car - one of them was for the brake booster. They should all be done as warranty service. I also had a software upgrade, that one cost me. > Check with volvo I think there is a recall about water getting into a > vacuum pump that messes with the brakes. Good luck. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open > >from inside. |
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