XC90 -thoughts

[RDH]

Looking to change Laura's ageing Subaru Forester and have the opportunity for a trade priced XC90 on an 11 plate. (Ex company car, I know the history, and know it's been looked after)

I know there are a few owners on here, anything I should look out for?

Cheers
Rob


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[Ferg]

I was having thoughts about one of these. They are a bit of a beast of a motor in size.

[campbell]

Get therapy. Immediately.

Book an aptmt with a certain C Moncrieff. He used to manage the service of such beasts at his former employ.

[robin]

Hi,

We've had one for a couple of years now. Not quite as bullet proof as the Toyota, but great cars, especially in Scotland's winter. I've never taken it off road so no idea how that works out, but most people don't use them in that role (where you want a Land Cruiser or Defender type thing). Nothing that's broken would have left the car unusable - so I would say reliable. Don't expect stellar fuel economy, and if you drive it like I do then you'll need pads/disks more often than you might expect

Cheers,
Robin

[tut]

Just specced one with everything at £72K, but unfortunately it does not pop up on Motability.uk.

tut

[Sanjøy]

Built in booster seats are a bonus. Looked at these when buying the disco.

[RDH]

Thanks everyone, will probably go ahead. In fuel economy terms, it'll be better than the current 23 we get on the 10year old Forester! The extra seats and built in boosters are handy, but not a deal breaker.
Tut, this one was £43k new, but has loads of kit to break on it! I'm sure the other £29k of kits would be surplus!

Cheers
Rob


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[Ferg]

Tut just read 'extras' and started clicking frenetically!

[Jam_s160]

We originally targeted an xc90 but went for a VW Touareg instead... The only thing the XC had over the Touareg were the extra seats. We tow a lot and the Touareg is epic in this department while lugging large amounts of junk with the kiddies etc

[smitstui]

We have had a few, new, as family cars and they were the best car we have had for a big family. Tows with easy, and has taken taken the 5 of us to France several times with bikes etc.
30mpg on a run, 24 - 27 around town. The only problem we had was warped discs at 10k miles.

However, recently I went to buy an older one (54 plate with 60k miles) and it turned out it had a fault with the 4WD system. Something to do with the front to rear drive from memory.
Point is, make sure you get a decent warranty or get it checked. I believe the test is to get on slippy ground and check all 4 wheels turn not just the front. According to my mechanic about half the older cars out there are essentially 2wd due to this fault!

[tut]

Tut just read 'extras' and started clicking frenetically!

Spot on Ferg, decided not to buy it when I saw that it had two many seats for the two of us. It was also the 320hp engine.

tut

[Ferg]

I'm at the stage I need to move family of four plus kit plus bikes just as SmitStui described. Towing a bonus. Had been looking at A6s, but a recent drive of a larger car made me think. TBH just need load space. How does the XC compare to the estate cars of this world?

[Sanjøy]

I'm at the stage I need to move family of four plus kit plus bikes just as SmitStui described. Towing a bonus. Had been looking at A6s, but a recent drive of a larger car made me think. TBH just need load space. How does the XC compare to the estate cars of this world?

E-Class 7 seater?

[Dominic]

E class FTW

[Kinger]

However, recently I went to buy an older one (54 plate with 60k miles) and it turned out it had a fault with the 4WD system. Something to do with the front to rear drive from memory.
Point is, make sure you get a decent warranty or get it checked. I believe the test is to get on slippy ground and check all 4 wheels turn not just the front. According to my mechanic about half the older cars out there are essentially 2wd due to this fault!

We've had three XC90's, our first one which was a 54 plate also had this failure which was going to be about £1200 to rectify, we only noticed it when the warning light came on during a realy snowy spell, to be honest it ploughed through everything in 2 wheel drive without much drama. Didn't fix it, just traded it back to arnold for a new one, and as they didn't take it out for a test drive it wasn't a problem to me.

The last two were completely trouble free. We're on an XC60 just now but I suspect me buying Evora is going to cost me a new XC90 for the other half next year.