# 2002 volvo s40

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-volvo-s40/51019>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-volvo-s40/51019 "2010-06-28T17:30:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![graich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@graich](https://community.cartalk.com/u/graich)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-volvo-s40/51019/1 "2010-06-28T17:30:55Z")

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This car has been nothing but a problem… In the past five years we have probably put 10,000 repairing defects that the company will not recall. Our last final attempt on fixing the hunk of junk endded us with a close to $3,000 bill and a result in the engine going right after being in the shop for 11 weeks (you heard it 11 weeks!!) in the shop. I Guess my question is do you think these mechanics knew that it needed a new engine but gouged us first for all the other things?? Everyone else who we told the story to seemed to know it was the engine why did’n they