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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / March 2005LOUD V70 door popping sound
About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started making a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It has gotten progressively louder and now is pretty embarrassing. We had the dealer look at it and they informed us that we would 'have to take it to a body shop' to get it repaired.... b/c they can't (reading between the lines - aren't interested) in fixing it... apparently, the mechanism that keeps the door from swinging out too fast has worn out. 2 questions: Has anyone had this issues before; and if so can you give me a ball price I should expect to pay to fix? and If yes to above, did your dealer fix it or did you have to take it to a 'body shop'. Thanks in advance for anything! brian charlotte, nc Costs me about $200 to have my volvo guy re-weld and reinforce the bracket.. Here is a DYI approach http://au.geocities.com/ozbrick850/door-stay_fix.html Bill > About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started > making a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > brian > charlotte, nc "William MILLS" <bmills46@earthlink.net> skrev i meddelandet news:ecL1e.7167$z.2909@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... > Costs me about $200 to have my volvo guy re-weld and reinforce the bracket.. > Here is a DYI approach > http://au.geocities.com/ozbrick850/door-stay_fix.html I would try to fit NordLock lock washers in order to secure the nuts. www.nordlock.com It may thoug be difficult to get the washers in place since it seems to be such a struggle to get the nuts in position. /aw Also, if it isn't broken yet, here is another fix. http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/hinge.htm Bill > About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started > making a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > brian > charlotte, nc In an earlier contribution to this discussion, William MILLS <bmills46@earthlink.net> wrote: > Also, if it isn't broken yet, here is another fix. > http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/hinge.htm > > Bill This has happened a couple of times on the passenger door (LHS) on my UK-spec 1999 V70 2.5D. In both cases, nothing was actually broken. The torx screw only needs to be *slightly* loose for the door to make a really awful noise. So the first thing to ty is to get yourself a Torx-40 bit and do the screw up really tight. That may well fix it. Only if something is cracked is any welding needed.  SignatureCheers, Bonnet Lock ______ Please reply to newsgroup. Reply address is invalid. This link might be of interest http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/hinge.htm Alas is sounds like your bracket needs to be welded, which would be more of a body shop type of job > About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started making > a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It has [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > brian > charlotte, nc THANKS everybody for the responses.... Ill see if some of the tightening suggested will do the trick, if not its off to the welder ! thanks again ! > About a month ago, the driver side door of our '99 V70 wagon started > making a popping sound when opened, actually 2 pops when opened fully. It [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > brian > charlotte, nc |
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