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Some Of The Things That Have Gone Wrong With My 2022 Volvo XC60 B5 AWD (Polestar).

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by Anura Guruge
on May 12, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE. e-mail acknowledging that they screwed me.

The Sirius Screen Freeze problem.

Volvo has ‘fixed’ this by eliminating these album display screens!

Click to ENLARGE. Finally. After 5.5 hours of waiting. If this was winter, and I was stuck by the side of the road I could have DIED!

One of my readers, earlier this week, requested that I document all the problems I have had with my accursed 2022 Volvo XC60 B5 AWD (Polestar).

So, here goes.

2022 Volvo XC60 B5 AWD (Polestar)

VIN: YV4L12RKXN1962248

Took Delivery: November 2, 2021

Sold by: ‘Volvo Cars of Exeter’ – Refused to acknowledge any problems with the car. Went as far as saying “in the scheme of things, given world hunger etc., your car problems are trivial …”!

Current mileage: 6 months (191 days later) 4,760 miles. Less than 800 miles/month.

November 2021 – 2 weeks after taking delivery.

Sirius XM screen freezes. Well documented by I with pictures & even a YouTube video.

Radio Station ID & ‘Radio Data System’ (i.e., song playing & artist) out-of-sync. Shows the wrong radio/Sirius XM station & the song. You have to listen to the radio BLING with no idea what station/channel you are on – never mind what is playing.

No always on ODOMETER! Need to press a button to see how many miles are on the car.

Automatic Trip Counter (TA per Volvo speak) has a mind of its own. Doesn’t reset automatically. So, useless. Have to remember to use the Manual Trip Counter (TM).

February 4, 2022

Driving to Boston, in a major snowstorm, for a doctor’s appointment. Lose ALL AUDIO! Nothing. Can’t even use the phone because it is connected via Bluetooth to audio system. Had to RESET the ‘head unit’! It was scary.

February 16 – 18, 2022. Trip to Acadia (Maine)

Lose ALL maps (navigation), 3 hours into the trip, just north of Bangor. No maps for the rest of the trip.

February 2022

Recall on the car antenna.

March 2022

Parking sensors go haywire. Can’t turn them off.

Have to reset the ‘Head Unit’. Now I turn off the parking sensors before I start the car. I need a pre-drive checklist to keep track of everything that needs to be done before you can drive this piece of junk.

April 6, 2022

Volvo’s Software Version 2 over-the-air (OTA) update.

It fixes Sirius Screen Freeze by eliminating the artist/song (i.e., album cover) display screens.

April 26, 2022

3rd day of 4 day trip to Northern Maine. Lose maps again. Also SOS. Car goes completely haywire with various alarms for 20 minutes before it settles down. NO MAPS again.

Schedule May 9, 2022 appointment with a dealership. NOT the useless ‘Volvo Cars of Exeter’.

May 9, 2022

“Power Steering Failure” message. Car dies. Dead as a brick.

5.5 hours to get a tow for ‘Volvo Roadside Assistance”.

Tow driver finds that car battery totally dead. He jumps it. He takes it, via flatbed, to dealer.

I get a loaner.

They find that battery is dead.

2022 Volvo XC60: Radio Suddenly Stopped Working While Driving! Not Funny.

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by Anura Guruge
on February 5, 2022

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Another new & infuriating problem on this frigging, bloody, accursed piece of $60K junk that was sold to me by ‘Volvo Cars of Exeter‘ in November 2021. Worst, worst, worst mistake in my 68 year old life — & that has to be saying something. I hate this diabolical XC60, I hate Volvo.

Yesterday, Friday, February 4, 2022. I was scheduled for my 1-year post cataract surgery checkup with my amazing surgeon at OCB in Boston. Despite the storm we decided that we would try to make the appointment because getting appointments is not easy. We set out 3.75 hours ahead of the appointment on what is usually, at most, a 2-hour trip.

Driving along in the snow & sleet. Temp. hovering around 25F. Had Sirius XM on. Windscreen started to freeze. Went to the temp. control & set MAX. defrost etc. Suddenly the sound stopped. Nothing. Thought it was Sirius XM. So, switched to radio. Nothing.

Luckily my 15-year old daughter was with me. So, she could check & try things while I drove. She checked all the sound settings. All good. Nothing muted. So, we kept on trying different channels. Nothing.

Was coming up to a Rest Stop. Pulled over. Restarted the car. That did NOTHING. No sound. No audio.

Tried to call the salesman who sold me this bloody, accursed, diabolical car. Got through to him. But, no sound! Phone connected to car’s audio system.

Got my daughter to call him on HER phone. She had not connected that to the car. She has sense. She no longer likes this car, though it was she, initially, that wanted a XC60. She says, quite rightly, that it is too buggy. She, like I, wants a car that you can just get in and go without continually running into problems. No chance with this car. Piece of junk.

Well, he knew exactly what to do. They know the issues with the XC60.

I had to reset the ‘unit’ by holding down the ‘HOME’ button. Said I could do it while I am driving. This is f***ing SCARY. Resetting your car while you are driving in a bloody storm.

My daughter did it. I was focused on driving.

She held down the HOME button beyond the ‘Safe for Cleaning’ message. Maybe for 1 minute. Maybe longer. Then a ‘Volvo’ message comes back on.

The audio came back. AMAZING.

I did some Googling today. Seems to be a common problem & folks know that you have to reset the unit by holding down the HOME button.

I am NOT amused. I am NOT happy. I hate this bloody car. I hate Volvo. I won’t even mention what I think of the folks who sold me this car knowing that it had issues.