How can it be illegal to use a iPad or iPhone (other devices are available) whilst driving, but it's OK to bugger about with a touch screen which also diverts attention from the road in much the same way?? It makes no sense at all and is utter b*ll*cks!
As a Volvo tech.. Yes, the EX30 is the biggest pile of crap shit garbage we've ever seen in our showroom/workshop. Do not be fooled, they (coroporate HQ) are already preparing us with 'educational' courses for the EX90; how to lower customer expectations, major product issues, LIDAR not working etc. The list goes on. Volvo has become a much watered down version of its former glory. I carry Volvo in my heart, all of my family members each own Volvos. But they have really lost it since the XC40. Speaking truth from the heart. Unless they change course rapidly, it will be lost and just become a consumer Chinese throwaway massively overpriced product and I'll quit working for the company. And I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this.
I love Volvo. I've owned loads of them and worked on the Pride in Volvo events in 2016-2018. The new SPA models I thought at the time were superb, but... I'm now hearing about quite a lot of engine failures with those cars? I have driven the EX30 and it's awful. Put another manufacturers badge on it and it could be anything. There is far too much tech in it which makes driving such a car anything but relaxing. I am frankly staggered to hear that one of the training courses for EX90 is about 'how to lower customer expectations'! I bet they're not lowering the price with it though. All this does not bode well for the future of this great marque. Very concerning.
I agree completely. I'm hanging on to my diesel S80 until it collapses, which hopefully will be in a long time. I feed it Ravenol oil..correct spec and good diesel. Took it for the mot the other day, and the technician looked confused when he checked the gases..then he repeated the test. He had never seen a euro 5 diesel giving such a low reading. 280000km. Wonderful cars, but the last of the true greats😭. Mine has had the life battered out of it. Towing trailers (1500kg) up mountains in 38° c heat..I live in the picos de Europe. Never a problem.
Sorry that something you care about so much is going to shit. Such a shame. If you do part with Volvo you should do a chat with Geoff! People would be fascinated to hear from you, I'm sure.
We have a 2012 Ex demo fully loaded XC70 D5 and a 1997 V70 2.3 T5 manual. I was looking at V90CC but for me it’s not a proper Volvo without its 5 cylinder engine. 2.0 4 cylinders are for VAG’s.
@ariedeknaller88: Too much of the world and too many formerly iconic names...it's all come to this. I, for one, don't welcome our future Chinese overlords. Yes. I well recall how well thought of Volvo quality was in the '60's and '70's....EVEN in the U.S. rural South. Volvos were known to be as durable as tanks and were respected for that. (edit) Egads I just now see that Lotus has also been swallowed up by Geely.
I remember in the mid-1980s I took my new to me Citroën ZX to my dad's house. I proudly showed him the car and said look it's even got electric windows! He sniffed and said "huh, something else to go wrong!" Today's cars are full of something else to go wrong
i call BS. you had a second hand ZX 5 years before they came out? your point still stands. that's why depreciation was so bad on luxury french cars in the 80s and 90s, they were loaded with gadgets and the people making them didn't have a good rep for reliability. now that applies to pretty much all new cars. even toyota are making engines that blow up after a few months.
Having just bought a new ICE car I can confirm that the tech overload in modern cars is ridiculous and a liability....The EU are massively to blame as they keep mandating this crap on us. My 40 year old Jag just has a key , no electronics other than a very basic fuel injection system and I can leave it for months and it starts on the key every time.
A lot of the over complication relates to emissions crap, and in conjunction with cheaply made electronics means service life is relatively short, as repair costs are high and problems are very frequent...........
@@battlebbot Yup along with the so called driving aids which imho are mostly darn right dangerous..as from this month speed limited as well . As you say all supplied and not supported by the cheapest winning bidder ( China).
Precisely. I had my 63 Valiant Signet out for some errands this past Sunday, absolutely minimalist car, three speed on the column, un-boosted brakes and steering and couldn't help but appreciate how viable it still is and how much utility it still has. And in 40+ years of ownership, I only put in one engine [1988] to replace the well worn one it came with when I bought it in 1981. I keep thinking.... how many battery pack replacements would I be up to after 40+ years of driving ? And at what cost?
Yet they make it an endorsement to use your phone but acceptable to use an iPad in a car to adjust everything which is essentially a big phone! Hate new modern cars 😂
This is why I will keep my mitsubishi L200 till it dies on me - it is almost twenty years old - it has a key - it has manual windows - it has saved us thousands since we bought it - a workhorse that I love -
My daughter's second car was a Volvo V40. It needed a new engine, new clutch, new gearbox. She sold it and bought a Volvo XC60 and so far is very happy with it
@@doriangray6985 2 series were just SOLID 🧱 💪 3 series just WERE 🪳 🤦 7 series were comfy 🛋 👟 9 series were stealthy rockets 👤🚀 Kinda fell outta love with Volvo when they went to front wheel drive, admittedly the T5 & T5R were late exceptions, but the modern stuff i wouldn't touch with a dead Vikings Barge pole.......
Smart man me not so much, I purchased a Chinese Volvo and that truck was a total nightmare it's such a shame cause I really do like the styling of the current vehicles
I was speaking to a breakdown technician a couple of months ago and I mentioned that the EV30 will have loads of issues in the future due to almost everything running via the touchscreen. He said 'in the future? There's already lots of problems with them' He said that nearly 1/2 is call outs were for EX30s. As we were talking he was sent a new breakdown and it was a stranded woman with an EX30.
I was driving a 22 plate Subaru recently… the on board nanny applied the brakes really hard at about 50mph when it thought I hadn’t noticed a car turning left in front of me ….. resulting in Starbucks all over the dashboard and violent whiplash for me and passengers. Really friggin dangerous .
I hired a Seat Leon recently and at one point on a country lane could feel the nanny trying to drag me across the road into the path of an oncoming car because we were both aware enough of the road to drive up to the edges to let each other by. And the fact that if you disable it, it's back on by default every time you start the car. And the fricken' beeping any time it thinks you're too close to something. No, beeping doesn't help me concentrate to reverse into a narrrow garage.
@@MrDblStopHired a new golf, same thing. I have always loved golfs, it was a lovely 2024 car about mid spec with digital dash, nice wheels, sports seats, leds in and out, etc but the driveablity has been completely lost in that new golf. It pulls you about road, beeps all the time, even tells you to close the window 😂. Solution: Don't buy the new golf with a digital dash.
Now we're going in the right direction. They've also brought back estates all we need now is for them to bring back proper 5 cylinder diesel engines❤. Although at a push, 4 cylinders would do. Anything but mobile phones with wheels.
I am unsure if you caught on but you do realise that nothing was to do with the car having battery issues, electric motor issues or electric charging issues. It is all to do with modern cars in general, which now have LIDAR, some with screens with most functions and general software issues. These software issues can affect any new modern car so heavily reliant on software. NOTHING literally NOTHING to do with it being an electric car. It is laughable how much people are ready to join the electric car hate bandwagon without many(if any like this case) educated factual reasons as to why they hate them
10 years ago I had way more disposable income and spent £20k on a brand new VW passat. A great car to use for my business and family purposes. I still have that car today with 130k miles. Everything has gone up in price except my income, I don't have the same disposable income today, nowhere near and most people I know are in the same position, so how do they expect to sell these £30-40k shit boxes. Whos paying that? Most new vehicles are stripped out, with no character, barely fit for purpose and aren't even desirable, like the ex30 👍
I have a 2015 Audi and love all the stalks and buttons. I will never buy a car where all the main controls are on a screen which in certain conditions may not be easily readable - thereby taking my eyes of the road even longer. Madness…and they want to reduce speed limits so there are fewer crashes. 🤦🏽
I ordered an EX30 last year with PCP. Process was online and my PCP approved in few hours but Volvo never managed to reconcile my order and my finance approval. After a month of appalling email and phone exchanges with Volvo UK I cancelled my order telling them that if they were not even able to sell cars (what they are meant to) I could not imagine how they would solve a basic car issue in the future. The salesman I met at the dealership and who told me to go to buy online was not even able to help. I hope for him he changed job.
Autocar changed the article because the ex30 has not been removed from sale. They took down their UK configurator because it needs to be switched to the model year 2025 which is now what new orders will get.
Volvo electric range are having bigger issues than than the article mentions. Symptom is no drive, gearbox jumps from D or R into N. Box of neutrals basically. The current fix is... 1. Switch car off, lock it. 2. Take fob away from car and let it sleep for 15 minutes. 3. Go back to car and hope it has reset itself. Call roadside assistance if not. 4. Book car in for software update at dealer. Wait weeks for the appontment.
The best characteristic of the Lotus's that I owned was that they were about as complicated as a bicycle. I remember the withering look that I got from the salesman when I asked if a particular Elise had air conditioning, although it was offered as an optional extra. He said something along the lines of 'If you don't want to be bothered driving, then get yourself a BMW 8 Series.' As so many people have said, buttons are far superior solution compared with a touch screen. Nothing better than fiddling with knobs in an old Jaguar.
I have always maintained that electric windows are lethal. Automatic locking is too. Imagine having an accident where you end up in water, you'll drown because the electrics will be shorted. They should fail safe and open, not the other way around.
With an EX30 you don't even start it or switch it off. You don't even unlock it as the fob has no buttons! You walk up to it and it not only unlocks but starts! You just put it in drive and go. To switch off you just put in park, get out and walk away and it switches off and locks itself. You don't really know where the hell you are with it and certainly don't feel like you're in control of the thing.
I had a clean record re accidents for decades... until I bought a Mini Cooper SD. Who the hell came up with the idea of putting iDrive, or this case iCrash, under the flippin' handbrake?! So many distractions and poor ergonomics on modern cars are sure to cause more accidents. Has anyone done a study on this?
I work in the software industry. Personally I find that great software requires deep thinking and an alternative style of working. Most companies make the mistake of considering their developers as a resource instead of artists. There is this totally incorrect ethos whereby management often comprising of failed developers effectively continuously hounds their developers for due dates which are only based on guesswork. They give these management techniques fancy names that become a science in itself, while in the meantime the developers just take shortcuts to tick the box in the artificial time frame. Once you put all these components together they are not going to deliver the experience the users expect.
A piece of news that will interest you Geoff: all the shops in Gridserve charging station on the outskirts of Norwich have all shut down because hardly any EVs use it!
I hate central, screen-operated controls in cars. Bought my wife a Kia Sportage last year and got the base model deliberately. It has a physical key, 2 litre petrol engine, full-size spare provided, buttons for basic aircon / heater , switch for headlights. The infotainment is via screen but you can ignore that while driving. It has annoying safety tech beeps, lane keeping etc but you can ignore that. Very happy so far because it’s quite basic compared to most new cars.
I got a courtesy car. Current model. It bonged at me for around a third of the journey home. I've had advanced training, so crossing lines for a better view or straight lining a roundabout is something I've been formally trained to do. And every time, the car bongs at me. Whenever there's a speed limit change coming up and I'm doing my observations before changing speed, it bongs to distract me and make me look at the dash. I go to over take a cyclist and the thing bongs because that's when I need distracting. It reads the speed limit, gets it wrong and bongs CONSTANTLY. Worse, when there is something of need of my attention, I ignore it (scream at it with passionate hate). This stuff needs to go away and I will be removing fuses or disconnecting speakers if it becomes mandatory. I can not drive being constantly distracted. It's not safe or sensible and I can not ignore it. I'm one of these people who doesn't even have the radio on.
Bicarbonate of soda. Sprinkle it all over the soft furnishings, leave for 30 mins and then hoover up. Use a spray bottle with white vinegar on all the hard furnishings and wipe clean with a damp cloth. These two above will eradicate all smells and cut through build up from years ~nuin🌟
Perhaps "normal" dog smell. We have 3 bassets, and despite many layers of waterproof, absorbant layers and washable, the stinky stays. We just had to give our "old" car to BIL as it didn't have a value 😂 (and he was well pleased, btw).
@@lat1419 we manage to get the doggy smells out every time. You can mix a few drops of essential oil (not fragrance oil) in with the bicarbonate of soda and that also helps.
@@lat1419 I have to say it might also be breed of dog. Ours have been staffy whippet cross, heinz 57, spaniel collie cross, and now a lurcher and coon hound Labrador cross. I know some breeds naturally are more fragrant than others 😉
@@hearthetreefall4934 oh, bassets are the worst. On the Basset UK FB group newbie owners are always popping up with questions about the pong. Those if us who have had them first years only have one piece of advice 🤣🤣 you'll get used to it and learn to live with it.😁
I've now done 1000 miles in our EX30. Been driving many makes of car since 1967. The EX30 is our first EV. Don't care about the badge. It drives great, it's quick, practical, looks great and is comfy. Had no problem adapting to touch screen controls. I haven't needed to change settings while driving. Have yet to test Volvo's warranty. Only annoyance's so far are the over sensitive indicator stalk and auto braking when manoeuvring in tight spaces (yet to discover how to turn that off). Just trying to add some balance to the discussion.🤓
When my brother was working for a Volvo dealer he got to have a sneeky look at the EX30 prior to sale. He sent me the images of it and from the images I hated it especially the recycled plastic dashboard which looked like someone made it from a cheap B&Q fake quartz effect kitchen top.
Re cleaning the beemer to get rid of the smell of doggy. Choices. 1. Spill a bottle of milk and leave it for a few days. 2. Spill transmission fluid and leave it in the car for a few days. 3. Get the cat to spray in there. Any of those options will cure the doggy smell
I agree completely. I have an older car and on a long late night, or overnight drive, I turn the dash brightness down a lot and everything is by instinctive easy touch, and relaxed eyes on the road, without straining on a screen and losing my night vision, when there are deer on the road....
Electric vehicles are shit. That said modern tech in cars is crap. I had a 2020 Skoda Octavia where the digital display Speedo used to reboot during driving. Also it used to call the emergency services of its own volition. I went 2016 Audi Q5 then 2015 Skoda Yeti. New cars are crap because they are trying to make them smart phones rather than vehicles. I
In the 80's we were tasked with generating a proposal for a software system for the Shuttle. we responded with a memo explaining that in view of the safety considerations for the Shuttle this should be manufactured entirely in hardware with no associated software. Which they did.
Dacia is my go-to brand when I want to point out how manufacturers are just being cheap by not putting buttons and switches in; if Dacia can have physical HVAC controls then other manufacturers have no excuse.
I used to burn an incense stick in the car passenger footwell** , whilst being very careful with the doors closed and me **outside of the car. Then once it's part way through, put the re-circulate fan on low so that it makes everything smell nice again.
I was given a new BMW courtesy car for the day and it was a nightmare having to tap through the display when you just want to turn the heat up. Even the dial control of older models allows you to find something deep in the menu when you know how many turns and presses to get there without looking! New is backwards.
ISA being introduced this month. Automatic speed limiter technology. Introduced to reduce accidents and fatalities. Nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong wrong
I owned a bunch of different Volvos years ago, when they were an actual Swedish company and not this half baked Chinese interpretation. Never had a recall issue in 18 years of owning those real Volvos… Wish I’d kept a couple of them.
Re the dog smell. I once managed to split a 2l carton of whipping cream in the boot of my Lexus (I run a small bakery!) The smell after several days was horrendous. I thought it was new carpet time. I was recommended a product called Eden Clean enzyme digester. It is used for cleaning crime scenes, but damn it works brilliantly & smells nice!
My original thoughts were how many EX30 would be running reliably in Sweden in say 5 years time after 5 Nordic winters. . It now appears there will not be many running reliably at one year old.
I agree with Mrs Geoff! A car that stinks of dog or dogs is up there with stale vomit and stale milk! Who wants to sick in a seat that a dog has had its poopy bottom on? If that fails sell it. Mrs Geoff is your queen and should be treated as such. It doesn't mean you are the king though!
You have some good points in terms of dashboard design. I believe that drivers should be able to operate basic controls that need to be accessed while driving without taking their eyes off the road.
They also have ozone emitters for 12V accessory sockets, my father led them in the 90s. Wait, do cars even have those sockets now? Or is it USB only because kids need to charge their vape instead?
Typical modern product marketing.. they give you less, charge you more and tell you it's better. It reminds me of video recorders towards the end of the technology, they all went nuts with the remote, competing to add the maximum number of buttons that will never get used. Marketing guru's must have used computer modelling to act on that one, sometimes they were even hiding extra layers of useless buttons behind sliding doors on some. Nowdays it costs nothing to make pages and pages of touch screen options that all rely on fragile software and complex (but cheap to manufacture) hardware which demands the user navigating the mental maze to find anything and control it, and then they sell it as a feature...
All the cars I have owned have been of a certain length and width with similar inside dimensions. All base models except one [even it came equipped with just radio and heater]. The least complex offerings, minimal electronic frippery, crank windows, just the basics. You can no longer get cars like that. I'll keep what I have. The manufacturers can choke on their overpriced tech bloated, overly complex garbage scows. Out of the six cars I have owned since 1980, I still have three of them in my driveway. One of the six I gave to my brother who still drives it, another was traded and the third one no longer around , was destroyed by in a rear end collision.
I agree. It gets to a point where there are too much depending on one system or multiple systems. Destined to fail. And yup, probably motivated by costs. Saving wires and copper in each and every car, I can only imagine the numbers 😂
I've got a 2022 Volvo XC60 Deisel and it does all of the things that are happening with EX30 owners. The issues lies with the abysmal Google AAOS which drives must things in the cockpit. In the latest software update, it now removes the map from the drivers binnacle when it's in reverse, to preserve processing power! this is the issue when you make your cars so dependent on software, they just never catch up with themselves . Every software update is nothing more than a software patch to fix the problems introduced in the last version.
Volvo were told about the lack of controls by me before the car was launched in the UK. The Motoring Press also panned it for the lack of buttons. Now I drive an MG ZS EV, first gen, it has all the buttons that my Passat Estate TDI had and in the same places. No problems, Tesla started down the track of electronic buttons and whilst it might suit long boring drives in the US, European roads are different, hence we prefer stick shift in the main. Let us hope that Volvo revisit the design and bring it out with buttons. It is otherwise a nice car. BUT, surely their target market for the EX 30 is second cars and small cars for the retired, it doesn't need crazy acceleration it needs to be a capable and efficient car with affordable insurance!
Available here in Bahrain ! I suspect they wont saell any ! A single central control that is hackable seems like a great idea haha. Oh I my 2014 XC90 is available, 80k miles - 100k pounds !
How to get rid of dog smell. 1) Take out interior 2) Buy new interior from Seller A 3) Sell original interior to Buyer 2 4) Buy rest of car from Seller A 5) Insert new interior to rest of car bought from Seller A Result = New interior for Mrs Geoff and you’ve had great fun working on cars. Win/Win. ✔️
Prevention is better than cure re dog smell. Only allow the dog in the boot of a hatchback or estate - not in the car (you may have to make sure you have the right car of course). Get a liner for the back area so the dog is not touching anything except the rear hatch (which they tend not to go too near). I also have an old towel the dog sits on that gets washed and an old piece of carpet on the floor to catch dog hair. A cage to to stop the dog putting their head over the back seat.
To remove all doggo smells I would recommend you take out the floor carpet vacuum all the dog hairs underneath lay the carpet on a piece of hard surface soap it, use a stiff brush to really work it in, leave it a couple mins to properly soak in then jet wash it
The interior of that car is such a HUGE let down!!! What Volvo used to be amazing at with a streamlined interior now looks damn cheap and poorly designed! With again a stupid double sided tape tablet. No thanks, i will stick with my 2014 v40
Volvo used to be all about safety & comfort but are now happy for customers to take their eyes off the road in order to be able look at and operate the central touchscreen, all the while driving along a bumpy road etc. Do wish the manufacturers would stop forcing customers to use touchscreens for absolutely every car function
In other news, Volvo quickly pushes out two OTA software updates and issues solved. Been a petrol head all my life, with a back catalogue of V8s, V6s and 2.0 turbos - EX30 is the best car I’ve owned to date. I’d never go back to ICE now.
My mate swears by old Volvos, he has a ‘02 ‘03 vintage ‘ish V70 and S80. He’s a mechanic. Reckons it is nearly a days job to change the starter motor on a 2016 Vauxhall thing, not sure what it was, and he’s fast. Took me 45 mins to change the starter motor on my ‘05 Golf.
Well spotted Geoff, I wonder if Volvo are a big customer of Autocar (advertising)?, I stopped reading these mags when their end of long term tests showed the horrific depreciation and there was barely any mention of it - because manufacturers = advertisers = revenue/profit to magazines.
A okd engineer told me simplicity is reliability on old car are better than car fixed with electronics to run them. Electronics should only be the radio in the car.
During WWII, aircraft designers came up with the idea of making certain knobs and levers different so that pilots wouldn't land with the gear up for example. The landing gear lever has what looks like two wheels on top - so you can tell by feel that it's the landing gear. Cars had the same design philosophy into the 1970s, when we forgot those lessons. Now, we might have to relearn them.
Hi Geoff,really enjoying these videos. Especially the car shows. Here's a thought. Would you buy a brand new car with 20 yr old shockers. I would bet that a lot of new cars have circuit boards fitted with components older than your BMW. Probably out of a phone,washing machine,telly and PCs for example.
The last new car I bought was an Audi A5 which I used for my business. I retired in 2022 and sold the Audi. I bought a 2012 Vauxhall Antara, known as the "Dog Car". I really don't need to be precious about, it serves a function (fuel economy not so good but I don't go far now). The Audi did have a multi-function screen which I never touched whilst driving. But it had knobs. The Vauxhall has knobs. My VW T4 camper has fewer knobs (hurrah) and window handles. In all my driving years have I ever had a manufacturer recall for a knob update.
As a experienced software developer, I want my cars with the fewer software possible. Big programs like the ones in cars tend to have many bugs. Software updates tend to introduce as many new bugs as the ones they fix, in an endless cycle.
Touch screen, down loading updates are such a cr*p idea! They are UNSAFE & DANGEROUS and would not have been allowed only 5 years ago, due to H& S concerns & requirements for using the touch screens. Yet you canmot use your phone. What a crock of sh*t Givernments have become!
I heard that Volvo and Polestar were developing the software together so if Volvo got it wrong then there is likely Polestar cars with the same issues ?.
Good think I just brought a 2.4 litre Volvo V70 with that beautiful Swedish 5 cylinder. shame the UK shaft me for £700 on tax, but worth every penny over Chinese EVs.
@@MrDblStop it is, but I just justify it by budgeting. My MX5 was £415 for a year, so month to month it’s not much difference. Sucks, but comfort, practicality, styling, features - it’s everything I wanted. For under £2000.
I have a 1.9 turbo diesel Alfa Romeo 159 estate best car I’ve ever owned it handles superbly is comfortable over long journeys averages 45+mpg and can achieve 54 mpg on a good run I’ve gotten 700 miles out of a full tank of diesel a couple of times. It has plenty of go when needed. Absolute belter of a car is solid underneath not a spec of rust on an 18 year old car as long as you maintain them they will last forever.
Hi Geoff, I have just bought an immaculate 1995 Rover 214 SEi 16v in British Racing Green. And Bloody love it as a damn fun car to drive 😊 OK it's not a Classic Mini, but what a brilliant 28 year old car. Reggie is the new member of the family and my 16yr old lad loves it for being so basic. The future is retro for sure 👌
As a software developer, the last thing I would ever want controlling my car, especially anything related to emergencies, is software. I have seen how even very experenced software developers make the most stupid mistakes, and most of the time don't test their software properly. They also have no idea how the real word works and how users would actually use the software.
See if you can rent an ozone generator somewhere. That would likely remove the smell of dog from your car, without the need to strip the complete interior. As a Swede (although Saab-fan!) I think it's tragic how an incompetent management are ruining the Volvo brand.
⚠️Friend of mine returned his brand new Volvo Estate back to the showroom after just 2 weeks because everything was on the god forsaken screen ⚠️ No buttons anywhere which drove him insane. He had to keep stopping to change the radio station or adjust the heater . Luckily they still had his trusty 10 year old Volvo Estate out the back and he pleaded with them to buy it back. You couldn't make this $h1t up 😅
😂 One, it looks nothing like a Volvo (as we know a volvo) Two, you would expect Volvo, to know how to produce the software correctly, ie like all the other ev cars???? Three, same old, "by design", to get people fed up even buying the alternative ev car, so people don't buy ANY car, ie. no cars Ring a bell folks??? 😊 Love the large knobs only on cars Geoff Thank you, as always Geoff for your videos 😊☀️
thanks geoff i'm really scared of evs too. they are very dangerous for knocking down pedestrians. the eu is bad too and foreigners are everywhere. why can't it be like the 70s again? keep up the good work😊
Simple to operate is good. It is safer. I like having a key - it goes into a slot and stays there, happy and content and out of the way - even better, if the battery in the key fails the key still works. I like indicators on a stalk (why anyone would do any different is nuts, virtually no one wants anything different). I like having a gear lever (not buttons or a round thing) because I know from feeling the position of the lever what gear/direction is set. I like having a spare tyre - every so often it becomes important. I like simple switches for windows, mirrors, wipers, hazards (some hazzard switches are poorly located), headlights - no it's not "I like" - it's essntial these things are simple switches. (I think it should be in the design rules for wipers and headlights - I am pretty sure it is for hazards) As somone who has a partner and daughter who both mess with the A/C in strange random ways making it easy to return it to rational settings by having knobs is a good thing.
Surely , if it illegal to interact wit your smartphone IN ANY WAY whilst driving....how on earth is it legal to play with an iPad whilst driving ?? insane
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Click that subscribe button if you like real Volvos. If you think the EX30 is a real Volvo, don’t worry about it 😂
Im already subscribed i can't push it again i love old cars
@@GeoffBuysCars can you go back to filming in a Volvo please... The German cars are affecting your viewing figures.
Use bicorbonate of soda to get rid of all unwanted smells. Also, it's cheap and safe to use.
Will Mrs Geoff be in this said video......asking for every male on channel thsts seen her be4 lol
@@markbray2988 How come your use of @GeoffBuysCars hyperlink worked, but mine didn’t??
How can it be illegal to use a iPad or iPhone (other devices are available) whilst driving, but it's OK to bugger about with a touch screen which also diverts attention from the road in much the same way?? It makes no sense at all and is utter b*ll*cks!
Company's pay the government to get the go ahead. Just like food and drink companies It is poison but if the money is right
It's legal cos they want to force you down that route
Touch screen is fixed to the dashboard. Weird ‘in the cradle’ type law?
Should see the state of the Mercedes touch screen I have, it's fully touch screen at any MPH.
I was about to say that--it is also illegal to have a video display unit mounted in front of the front row of seats!
As a Volvo tech.. Yes, the EX30 is the biggest pile of crap shit garbage we've ever seen in our showroom/workshop. Do not be fooled, they (coroporate HQ) are already preparing us with 'educational' courses for the EX90; how to lower customer expectations, major product issues, LIDAR not working etc. The list goes on. Volvo has become a much watered down version of its former glory. I carry Volvo in my heart, all of my family members each own Volvos. But they have really lost it since the XC40. Speaking truth from the heart. Unless they change course rapidly, it will be lost and just become a consumer Chinese throwaway massively overpriced product and I'll quit working for the company. And I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this.
I love Volvo. I've owned loads of them and worked on the Pride in Volvo events in 2016-2018. The new SPA models I thought at the time were superb, but... I'm now hearing about quite a lot of engine failures with those cars? I have driven the EX30 and it's awful. Put another manufacturers badge on it and it could be anything. There is far too much tech in it which makes driving such a car anything but relaxing. I am frankly staggered to hear that one of the training courses for EX90 is about 'how to lower customer expectations'! I bet they're not lowering the price with it though. All this does not bode well for the future of this great marque. Very concerning.
I agree completely. I'm hanging on to my diesel S80 until it collapses, which hopefully will be in a long time. I feed it Ravenol oil..correct spec and good diesel. Took it for the mot the other day, and the technician looked confused when he checked the gases..then he repeated the test. He had never seen a euro 5 diesel giving such a low reading. 280000km. Wonderful cars, but the last of the true greats😭. Mine has had the life battered out of it. Towing trailers (1500kg) up mountains in 38° c heat..I live in the picos de Europe. Never a problem.
Sorry that something you care about so much is going to shit. Such a shame.
If you do part with Volvo you should do a chat with Geoff! People would be fascinated to hear from you, I'm sure.
We have a 2012 Ex demo fully loaded XC70 D5 and a 1997 V70 2.3 T5 manual. I was looking at V90CC but for me it’s not a proper Volvo without its 5 cylinder engine. 2.0 4 cylinders are for VAG’s.
@ariedeknaller88: Too much of the world and too many formerly iconic names...it's all come to this. I, for one, don't welcome our future Chinese overlords. Yes. I well recall how well thought of Volvo quality was in the '60's and '70's....EVEN in the U.S. rural South. Volvos were known to be as durable as tanks and were respected for that. (edit) Egads I just now see that Lotus has also been swallowed up by Geely.
I remember in the mid-1980s I took my new to me Citroën ZX to my dad's house. I proudly showed him the car and said look it's even got electric windows! He sniffed and said "huh, something else to go wrong!" Today's cars are full of something else to go wrong
Throwaway toys
i call BS. you had a second hand ZX 5 years before they came out? your point still stands. that's why depreciation was so bad on luxury french cars in the 80s and 90s, they were loaded with gadgets and the people making them didn't have a good rep for reliability. now that applies to pretty much all new cars. even toyota are making engines that blow up after a few months.
@@JTV84 listen I'm old it might have been the 1990s but I did have one it was green and I'd never heard of them before I bought it
Not very smart your dad. You should both move back to a cage, not much can go wrong there. 😀
Having just bought a new ICE car I can confirm that the tech overload in modern cars is ridiculous and a liability....The EU are massively to blame as they keep mandating this crap on us.
My 40 year old Jag just has a key , no electronics other than a very basic fuel injection system and I can leave it for months and it starts on the key every time.
you forgot to add - I can leave it for months and it starts on the key every time and sounds amazing :))
A lot of the over complication relates to emissions crap, and in conjunction with cheaply made electronics means service life is relatively short, as repair costs are high and problems are very frequent...........
@@geoffdundee :) Indeed it does 4.2L , smooth as silk
@@battlebbot Yup along with the so called driving aids which imho are mostly darn right dangerous..as from this month speed limited as well . As you say all supplied and not supported by the cheapest winning bidder ( China).
Precisely. I had my 63 Valiant Signet out for some errands this past Sunday, absolutely minimalist car, three speed on the column, un-boosted brakes and steering and couldn't help but appreciate how viable it still is and how much utility it still has.
And in 40+ years of ownership, I only put in one engine [1988] to replace the well worn one it came with when I bought it in 1981.
I keep thinking.... how many battery pack replacements would I be up to after 40+ years of driving ? And at what cost?
Yet they make it an endorsement to use your phone but acceptable to use an iPad in a car to adjust everything which is essentially a big phone! Hate new modern cars 😂
@@stuartlindle4908 the problem is, we now appear to have computer/phone designers masquerading as automotive designers. It's mad!
This is why I will keep my mitsubishi L200 till it dies on me - it is almost twenty years old - it has a key - it has manual windows - it has saved us thousands since we bought it - a workhorse that I love -
I have a '94 Delica. I love the simplicity of it.
Mondeo tdci 2008 👍👍👍
Dodge used to rebadge the L200 - an under-rated truck
I'm Volvo For Life (40 years) but I wouldn't have a Geely Volvo for all the tea in China!
Handy, I think that's the new price 😄 🤣 😂 🍵 ☕ 🍵 ☕ 🍵 ☕ 🍵 🇨🇳
My daughter's second car was a Volvo V40. It needed a new engine, new clutch, new gearbox. She sold it and bought a Volvo XC60 and so far is very happy with it
@@doriangray6985
2 series were just SOLID 🧱 💪
3 series just WERE 🪳 🤦
7 series were comfy 🛋 👟
9 series were stealthy rockets 👤🚀
Kinda fell outta love with Volvo when they went to front wheel drive, admittedly the T5 & T5R were late exceptions, but the modern stuff i wouldn't touch with a dead Vikings Barge pole.......
Exactly a volvo which is NOT a volvo,bit like the honda e:Ny1 which is a chinese based car, and lotus who have done similar.
Smart man me not so much, I purchased a Chinese Volvo and that truck was a total nightmare it's such a shame cause I really do like the styling of the current vehicles
I was speaking to a breakdown technician a couple of months ago and I mentioned that the EV30 will have loads of issues in the future due to almost everything running via the touchscreen. He said 'in the future? There's already lots of problems with them' He said that nearly 1/2 is call outs were for EX30s. As we were talking he was sent a new breakdown and it was a stranded woman with an EX30.
What an absolute heap 😂
Yeah, and those screens cost 3 grand in spares and repairs.
@@worldhello1234thats not bad compared to honda jazz satnav radios there shockingly 5k
I was driving a 22 plate Subaru recently… the on board nanny applied the brakes really hard at about 50mph when it thought I hadn’t noticed a car turning left in front of me ….. resulting in Starbucks all over the dashboard and violent whiplash for me and passengers. Really friggin dangerous .
I hired a Seat Leon recently and at one point on a country lane could feel the nanny trying to drag me across the road into the path of an oncoming car because we were both aware enough of the road to drive up to the edges to let each other by. And the fact that if you disable it, it's back on by default every time you start the car. And the fricken' beeping any time it thinks you're too close to something. No, beeping doesn't help me concentrate to reverse into a narrrow garage.
@@MrDblStopHired a new golf, same thing. I have always loved golfs, it was a lovely 2024 car about mid spec with digital dash, nice wheels, sports seats, leds in and out, etc but the driveablity has been completely lost in that new golf. It pulls you about road, beeps all the time, even tells you to close the window 😂.
Solution: Don't buy the new golf with a digital dash.
Important controls should LEGALLY be physical controls. Anything that needs to work to pass a MOT should have physical controls.
Ncap are going to clamp down on it from next year, it says basic controls should have physical buttons/stalks
@@leewatts8656if that's true, it is good news
It's funny watching all these vehicle manufacturers reverting back to petrol 😂😂
Suzuki just swallowed a massive amount of woke "green" koolaid and announced they will go all electric from next year.
RIP...
Can you name one please?
Would you buy a Geely petrol car? Better off with a Volvo by Geely that’s electric.
Now we're going in the right direction. They've also brought back estates all we need now is for them to bring back proper 5 cylinder diesel engines❤. Although at a push, 4 cylinders would do. Anything but mobile phones with wheels.
We also need a luxury car with a V8 diesel
I saw an Allegro the other day. It looked magnificent.
A bottle of vinegar will remove all traces of dog.
I will NEVER EVER EVER buy an electric car, they are truly rubbish and thanks to Geoff for keeping us all updated on this rubbish
I am unsure if you caught on but you do realise that nothing was to do with the car having battery issues, electric motor issues or electric charging issues. It is all to do with modern cars in general, which now have LIDAR, some with screens with most functions and general software issues.
These software issues can affect any new modern car so heavily reliant on software.
NOTHING literally NOTHING to do with it being an electric car.
It is laughable how much people are ready to join the electric car hate bandwagon without many(if any like this case) educated factual reasons as to why they hate them
@o0alias0o Nobody wants this crap, we want ICE. Don't you get it?
BAHAHAHAHA!!! Keep telling yourself that little fella! BAHAHAHAHA!!! 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
There's going to be a huge market for used ICE cars by 2035.
Good, the oil companies need your hard earned £££ for their shareholders.
All I had to do to get the smell of dog out of my Astra was wait four years.
😂😂😂👍
10 years ago I had way more disposable income and spent £20k on a brand new VW passat. A great car to use for my business and family purposes. I still have that car today with 130k miles. Everything has gone up in price except my income, I don't have the same disposable income today, nowhere near and most people I know are in the same position, so how do they expect to sell these £30-40k shit boxes. Whos paying that?
Most new vehicles are stripped out, with no character, barely fit for purpose and aren't even desirable, like the ex30 👍
I have a 2015 Audi and love all the stalks and buttons. I will never buy a car where all the main controls are on a screen which in certain conditions may not be easily readable - thereby taking my eyes of the road even longer. Madness…and they want to reduce speed limits so there are fewer crashes. 🤦🏽
Totally agree, just as bad as using a phone
I ordered an EX30 last year with PCP. Process was online and my PCP approved in few hours but Volvo never managed to reconcile my order and my finance approval. After a month of appalling email and phone exchanges with Volvo UK I cancelled my order telling them that if they were not even able to sell cars (what they are meant to) I could not imagine how they would solve a basic car issue in the future. The salesman I met at the dealership and who told me to go to buy online was not even able to help. I hope for him he changed job.
Autocar changed the article because the ex30 has not been removed from sale. They took down their UK configurator because it needs to be switched to the model year 2025 which is now what new orders will get.
Volvo electric range are having bigger issues than than the article mentions. Symptom is no drive, gearbox jumps from D or R into N. Box of neutrals basically.
The current fix is...
1. Switch car off, lock it.
2. Take fob away from car and let it sleep for 15 minutes.
3. Go back to car and hope it has reset itself. Call roadside assistance if not.
4. Book car in for software update at dealer. Wait weeks for the appontment.
Thumbs up if you also prefer a real ignition key. 👍🏻
The best characteristic of the Lotus's that I owned was that they were about as complicated as a bicycle. I remember the withering look that I got from the salesman when I asked if a particular Elise had air conditioning, although it was offered as an optional extra.
He said something along the lines of 'If you don't want to be bothered driving, then get yourself a BMW 8 Series.'
As so many people have said, buttons are far superior solution compared with a touch screen. Nothing better than fiddling with knobs in an old Jaguar.
And we thought it stood for Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious. Little could we forsee 2020s electric and ultra gizmoed vehicles.
I have always maintained that electric windows are lethal. Automatic locking is too. Imagine having an accident where you end up in water, you'll drown because the electrics will be shorted. They should fail safe and open, not the other way around.
With an EX30 you don't even start it or switch it off. You don't even unlock it as the fob has no buttons! You walk up to it and it not only unlocks but starts! You just put it in drive and go. To switch off you just put in park, get out and walk away and it switches off and locks itself. You don't really know where the hell you are with it and certainly don't feel like you're in control of the thing.
@@zm321
Because you're not in control of the thing.
@@ducthman4737 The Chy-nese are!
Two people died in Liverpool because of this,its already happened.
I had a clean record re accidents for decades... until I bought a Mini Cooper SD. Who the hell came up with the idea of putting iDrive, or this case iCrash, under the flippin' handbrake?! So many distractions and poor ergonomics on modern cars are sure to cause more accidents. Has anyone done a study on this?
I work in the software industry. Personally I find that great software requires deep thinking and an alternative style of working. Most companies make the mistake of considering their developers as a resource instead of artists. There is this totally incorrect ethos whereby management often comprising of failed developers effectively continuously hounds their developers for due dates which are only based on guesswork. They give these management techniques fancy names that become a science in itself, while in the meantime the developers just take shortcuts to tick the box in the artificial time frame. Once you put all these components together they are not going to deliver the experience the users expect.
"How the mighty have fallen."
A piece of news that will interest you Geoff: all the shops in Gridserve charging station on the outskirts of Norwich have all shut down because hardly any EVs use it!
I hate central, screen-operated controls in cars. Bought my wife a Kia Sportage last year and got the base model deliberately. It has a physical key, 2 litre petrol engine, full-size spare provided, buttons for basic aircon / heater , switch for headlights. The infotainment is via screen but you can ignore that while driving. It has annoying safety tech beeps, lane keeping etc but you can ignore that. Very happy so far because it’s quite basic compared to most new cars.
I got a courtesy car. Current model. It bonged at me for around a third of the journey home. I've had advanced training, so crossing lines for a better view or straight lining a roundabout is something I've been formally trained to do. And every time, the car bongs at me. Whenever there's a speed limit change coming up and I'm doing my observations before changing speed, it bongs to distract me and make me look at the dash. I go to over take a cyclist and the thing bongs because that's when I need distracting. It reads the speed limit, gets it wrong and bongs CONSTANTLY.
Worse, when there is something of need of my attention, I ignore it (scream at it with passionate hate).
This stuff needs to go away and I will be removing fuses or disconnecting speakers if it becomes mandatory.
I can not drive being constantly distracted. It's not safe or sensible and I can not ignore it. I'm one of these people who doesn't even have the radio on.
Bicarbonate of soda. Sprinkle it all over the soft furnishings, leave for 30 mins and then hoover up.
Use a spray bottle with white vinegar on all the hard furnishings and wipe clean with a damp cloth.
These two above will eradicate all smells and cut through build up from years
~nuin🌟
Perhaps "normal" dog smell. We have 3 bassets, and despite many layers of waterproof, absorbant layers and washable, the stinky stays. We just had to give our "old" car to BIL as it didn't have a value 😂 (and he was well pleased, btw).
@@lat1419 we manage to get the doggy smells out every time. You can mix a few drops of essential oil (not fragrance oil) in with the bicarbonate of soda and that also helps.
@@lat1419 I have to say it might also be breed of dog. Ours have been staffy whippet cross, heinz 57, spaniel collie cross, and now a lurcher and coon hound Labrador cross. I know some breeds naturally are more fragrant than others 😉
@@hearthetreefall4934 good to know. I have the "stinker" dog spritz from the Dogs Trust to apply to the dogs, but they still smell awful (hounds) 💩
@@hearthetreefall4934 oh, bassets are the worst. On the Basset UK FB group newbie owners are always popping up with questions about the pong. Those if us who have had them first years only have one piece of advice 🤣🤣 you'll get used to it and learn to live with it.😁
I've now done 1000 miles in our EX30. Been driving many makes of car since 1967. The EX30 is our first EV. Don't care about the badge. It drives great, it's quick, practical, looks great and is comfy. Had no problem adapting to touch screen controls. I haven't needed to change settings while driving. Have yet to test Volvo's warranty. Only annoyance's so far are the over sensitive indicator stalk and auto braking when manoeuvring in tight spaces (yet to discover how to turn that off). Just trying to add some balance to the discussion.🤓
When my brother was working for a Volvo dealer he got to have a sneeky look at the EX30 prior to sale. He sent me the images of it and from the images I hated it especially the recycled plastic dashboard which looked like someone made it from a cheap B&Q fake quartz effect kitchen top.
Re cleaning the beemer to get rid of the smell of doggy.
Choices.
1. Spill a bottle of milk and leave it for a few days.
2. Spill transmission fluid and leave it in the car for a few days.
3. Get the cat to spray in there.
Any of those options will cure the doggy smell
To get the smell of dog out the car get a cat for the car 😂 simples
Or, an incontinent granny
I agree completely. I have an older car and on a long late night, or overnight drive, I turn the dash brightness down a lot and everything is by instinctive easy touch, and relaxed eyes on the road, without straining on a screen and losing my night vision, when there are deer on the road....
losing
Electric vehicles are shit. That said modern tech in cars is crap. I had a 2020 Skoda Octavia where the digital display Speedo used to reboot during driving. Also it used to call the emergency services of its own volition.
I went 2016 Audi Q5 then 2015 Skoda Yeti. New cars are crap because they are trying to make them smart phones rather than vehicles.
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Supply your wife with the cleaning products necessary to get rid of the smell of dog, then tell her to crack on.
Or get her a dog? Haha
The wife gave me an ultimatum , it's me or the dogs .... God I miss that Volvo .
There is so much useless tech in new cars they often can't afford to include a spare wheel. Which is of far more use!
In the 80's we were tasked with generating a proposal for a software system for the Shuttle. we responded with a memo explaining that in view of the safety considerations for the Shuttle this should be manufactured entirely in hardware with no associated software. Which they did.
There is a reason that Dacia cars are so popular with non-badge snobs, simplicity and value for money.
Dacia is my go-to brand when I want to point out how manufacturers are just being cheap by not putting buttons and switches in; if Dacia can have physical HVAC controls then other manufacturers have no excuse.
Soon Volvo will be forced to produce diesel cars again to survive. F''''ing EV crap.
Owned by Geely so you’re never buying an old Volvo unless you literally buy an old one.
I used to burn an incense stick in the car passenger footwell** , whilst being very careful with the doors closed and me **outside of the car. Then once it's part way through, put the re-circulate fan on low so that it makes everything smell nice again.
I was given a new BMW courtesy car for the day and it was a nightmare having to tap through the display when you just want to turn the heat up. Even the dial control of older models allows you to find something deep in the menu when you know how many turns and presses to get there without looking! New is backwards.
ISA being introduced this month. Automatic speed limiter technology. Introduced to reduce accidents and fatalities.
Nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong wrong
I owned a bunch of different Volvos years ago, when they were an actual Swedish company and not this half baked Chinese interpretation. Never had a recall issue in 18 years of owning those real Volvos…
Wish I’d kept a couple of them.
Re the dog smell. I once managed to split a 2l carton of whipping cream in the boot of my Lexus (I run a small bakery!) The smell after several days was horrendous. I thought it was new carpet time. I was recommended a product called Eden Clean enzyme digester. It is used for cleaning crime scenes, but damn it works brilliantly & smells nice!
My original thoughts were how many EX30 would be running reliably in Sweden in say 5 years time after 5 Nordic winters. . It now appears there will not be many running reliably at one year old.
Geoff, clean the car and then put an ozone generator in for a few hours. About 70 quid and can be used on all your cars. 😁
I had a Volvo XC90 which was very practical, but the tech kept failing and then the whole gearbox! Terrible reliability.
I agree with Mrs Geoff! A car that stinks of dog or dogs is up there with stale vomit and stale milk! Who wants to sick in a seat that a dog has had its poopy bottom on? If that fails sell it. Mrs Geoff is your queen and should be treated as such. It doesn't mean you are the king though!
i agree with Mrs Geoff ... no pub for you this week fella ..crack on haha
You have some good points in terms of dashboard design. I believe that drivers should be able to operate basic controls that need to be accessed while driving without taking their eyes off the road.
To get the smell out, rent an Ozone (O3) generator and but it in the car with all the windows & doors closed for a few hours. Smell will be gone.😉
They also have ozone emitters for 12V accessory sockets, my father led them in the 90s. Wait, do cars even have those sockets now? Or is it USB only because kids need to charge their vape instead?
Typical modern product marketing.. they give you less, charge you more and tell you it's better.
It reminds me of video recorders towards the end of the technology, they all went nuts with the remote, competing to add the maximum number of buttons that will never get used. Marketing guru's must have used computer modelling to act on that one, sometimes they were even hiding extra layers of useless buttons behind sliding doors on some. Nowdays it costs nothing to make pages and pages of touch screen options that all rely on fragile software and complex (but cheap to manufacture) hardware which demands the user navigating the mental maze to find anything and control it, and then they sell it as a feature...
All the cars I have owned have been of a certain length and width with similar inside dimensions. All base models except one [even it came equipped with just radio and heater]. The least complex offerings, minimal electronic frippery, crank windows, just the basics.
You can no longer get cars like that. I'll keep what I have.
The manufacturers can choke on their overpriced tech bloated, overly complex garbage scows.
Out of the six cars I have owned since 1980, I still have three of them in my driveway. One of the six I gave to my brother who still drives it, another was traded and the third one no longer around , was destroyed by in a rear end collision.
How about ‘How I Took the Seats out of the Wife’s car so she could Deep Clean the Carpets herself.’ 😂😂😂
very brave.
Geoff, use the Wayback Machine to get the original story
I agree. It gets to a point where there are too much depending on one system or multiple systems. Destined to fail.
And yup, probably motivated by costs. Saving wires and copper in each and every car, I can only imagine the numbers 😂
I've got a 2022 Volvo XC60 Deisel and it does all of the things that are happening with EX30 owners. The issues lies with the abysmal Google AAOS which drives must things in the cockpit. In the latest software update, it now removes the map from the drivers binnacle when it's in reverse, to preserve processing power! this is the issue when you make your cars so dependent on software, they just never catch up with themselves . Every software update is nothing more than a software patch to fix the problems introduced in the last version.
While introducing new software glitches with the update quite often😂
Volvo were told about the lack of controls by me before the car was launched in the UK. The Motoring Press also panned it for the lack of buttons. Now I drive an MG ZS EV, first gen, it has all the buttons that my Passat Estate TDI had and in the same places. No problems, Tesla started down the track of electronic buttons and whilst it might suit long boring drives in the US, European roads are different, hence we prefer stick shift in the main. Let us hope that Volvo revisit the design and bring it out with buttons. It is otherwise a nice car. BUT, surely their target market for the EX 30 is second cars and small cars for the retired, it doesn't need crazy acceleration it needs to be a capable and efficient car with affordable insurance!
Available here in Bahrain ! I suspect they wont saell any ! A single central control that is hackable seems like a great idea haha. Oh I my 2014 XC90 is available, 80k miles - 100k pounds !
How to get rid of dog smell.
1) Take out interior
2) Buy new interior from Seller A
3) Sell original interior to Buyer 2
4) Buy rest of car from Seller A
5) Insert new interior to rest of car bought from Seller A
Result = New interior for Mrs Geoff and you’ve had great fun working on cars.
Win/Win. ✔️
Prevention is better than cure re dog smell.
Only allow the dog in the boot of a hatchback or estate - not in the car (you may have to make sure you have the right car of course). Get a liner for the back area so the dog is not touching anything except the rear hatch (which they tend not to go too near). I also have an old towel the dog sits on that gets washed and an old piece of carpet on the floor to catch dog hair. A cage to to stop the dog putting their head over the back seat.
To remove all doggo smells I would recommend you take out the floor carpet vacuum all the dog hairs underneath lay the carpet on a piece of hard surface soap it, use a stiff brush to really work it in, leave it a couple mins to properly soak in then jet wash it
The interior of that car is such a HUGE let down!!! What Volvo used to be amazing at with a streamlined interior now looks damn cheap and poorly designed! With again a stupid double sided tape tablet. No thanks, i will stick with my 2014 v40
Goes back to the old saying of "never buy the first iteration of new cars". Wait a couple of years and see.
totally absolutely agree 1000 percent that lights,wipers, mirrors,climate and audio controls should remains as ANALOGUE controls on the dash
Thought you were going to do a macmaster face when when you said big nob ... Thankfully.... keep up the great work fella 💯🙏🃏🧂
My 70 plate XC40 2.0 Diesel brakes for no reason many times since i have owned it. Bloody dangerous in my opinion. Wont ever buy another one.
Take it back to the dealer. Then sue. That's a dangerous vehicle
That's super dangerous.
Volvo is currently owned by the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, a Chinese company.
78% owned 😂 along with part owners of Proton, Lotus, Smart, London Electric Vehicle Company
Volvo used to be all about safety & comfort but are now happy for customers to take their eyes off the road in order to be able look at and operate the central touchscreen, all the while driving along a bumpy road etc. Do wish the manufacturers would stop forcing customers to use touchscreens for absolutely every car function
In other news, Volvo quickly pushes out two OTA software updates and issues solved. Been a petrol head all my life, with a back catalogue of V8s, V6s and 2.0 turbos - EX30 is the best car I’ve owned to date. I’d never go back to ICE now.
Hi Geoff. I did the same , I got rid off my Modernish Car and went back in time as well. I bought a 2010 BMW 320d Tourer and I LOVE IT. 🥰🤣😂
My Lord that Volvo looks like a Ferrets pooh!
My mate swears by old Volvos, he has a ‘02 ‘03 vintage ‘ish V70 and S80. He’s a mechanic. Reckons it is nearly a days job to change the starter motor on a 2016 Vauxhall thing, not sure what it was, and he’s fast. Took me 45 mins to change the starter motor on my ‘05 Golf.
Well spotted Geoff, I wonder if Volvo are a big customer of Autocar (advertising)?, I stopped reading these mags when their end of long term tests showed the horrific depreciation and there was barely any mention of it - because manufacturers = advertisers = revenue/profit to magazines.
This is going to be the reason. Volvo ads are everywhere online. Probably not so much in the printed version.
@@HappyBagger I agree, seems every other online ad is for an electric Volvo.
A okd engineer told me simplicity is reliability on old car are better than car fixed with electronics to run them. Electronics should only be the radio in the car.
During WWII, aircraft designers came up with the idea of making certain knobs and levers different so that pilots wouldn't land with the gear up for example. The landing gear lever has what looks like two wheels on top - so you can tell by feel that it's the landing gear. Cars had the same design philosophy into the 1970s, when we forgot those lessons. Now, we might have to relearn them.
My 2023 Bolt has lots of buttons and knobs. You can feel by touch the ones you're likely to use while driving.
Hi Geoff,really enjoying these videos.
Especially the car shows.
Here's a thought.
Would you buy a brand new car with 20 yr old shockers.
I would bet that a lot of new cars have circuit boards fitted with components
older than your BMW.
Probably out of a phone,washing machine,telly and PCs for example.
The last new car I bought was an Audi A5 which I used for my business. I retired in 2022 and sold the Audi. I bought a 2012 Vauxhall Antara, known as the "Dog Car". I really don't need to be precious about, it serves a function (fuel economy not so good but I don't go far now).
The Audi did have a multi-function screen which I never touched whilst driving. But it had knobs. The Vauxhall has knobs.
My VW T4 camper has fewer knobs (hurrah) and window handles.
In all my driving years have I ever had a manufacturer recall for a knob update.
And BYD self recycling batteries 😂😂😂
I've just bypassed the microswitch on the clutch pedal to start my boxster...too much tech, bah, humbug
As a experienced software developer, I want my cars with the fewer software possible. Big programs like the ones in cars tend to have many bugs. Software updates tend to introduce as many new bugs as the ones they fix, in an endless cycle.
The problem is the new speed limiting tech. I guess it is miss reading the road signs
These multi function screens are a nightmare.
Touch screen, down loading updates are such a cr*p idea!
They are UNSAFE & DANGEROUS and would not have been allowed only 5 years ago, due to H& S concerns & requirements for using the touch screens. Yet you canmot use your phone.
What a crock of sh*t Givernments have become!
I heard that Volvo and Polestar were developing the software together so if Volvo got it wrong then there is likely Polestar cars with the same issues ?.
Would never have had software issues like that if the car was still being made in Sweden 🙄
To get rid of dog smells, leave a cat in the car for over a week.
Good think I just brought a 2.4 litre Volvo V70 with that beautiful Swedish 5 cylinder. shame the UK shaft me for £700 on tax, but worth every penny over Chinese EVs.
Damn that's harsh.
@@MrDblStop it is, but I just justify it by budgeting. My MX5 was £415 for a year, so month to month it’s not much difference. Sucks, but comfort, practicality, styling, features - it’s everything I wanted. For under £2000.
And at least you havn't put down a couple of grand and pay out £500 to £1000 a month for a car that you NEVER own!
@@zm321 been there, done that - never again. Learnt my lesson after my 18th birthday buying a Chinese MG!
@@larvey That sounds like a bargain. Enjoy!
I have a 1.9 turbo diesel Alfa Romeo 159 estate best car I’ve ever owned it handles superbly is comfortable over long journeys averages 45+mpg and can achieve 54 mpg on a good run I’ve gotten 700 miles out of a full tank of diesel a couple of times. It has plenty of go when needed.
Absolute belter of a car is solid underneath not a spec of rust on an 18 year old car as long as you maintain them they will last forever.
Talking of proper Volvos, at the Broyle Show I saw a gorgeous red Volvo P1800 Shooting Brake.
Hi Geoff,
I have just bought an immaculate 1995 Rover 214 SEi 16v in British Racing Green. And Bloody love it as a damn fun car to drive 😊
OK it's not a Classic Mini, but what a brilliant 28 year old car.
Reggie is the new member of the family and my 16yr old lad loves it for being so basic.
The future is retro for sure 👌
As a software developer, the last thing I would ever want controlling my car, especially anything related to emergencies, is software. I have seen how even very experenced software developers make the most stupid mistakes, and most of the time don't test their software properly. They also have no idea how the real word works and how users would actually use the software.
See if you can rent an ozone generator somewhere. That would likely remove the smell of dog from your car, without the need to strip the complete interior. As a Swede (although Saab-fan!) I think it's tragic how an incompetent management are ruining the Volvo brand.
⚠️Friend of mine returned his brand new Volvo Estate back to the showroom after just 2 weeks because everything was on the god forsaken screen ⚠️
No buttons anywhere which drove him insane.
He had to keep stopping to change the radio station or adjust the heater .
Luckily they still had his trusty 10 year old Volvo Estate out the back and he pleaded with them to buy it back.
You couldn't make this $h1t up 😅
😂 One, it looks nothing like a Volvo (as we know a volvo)
Two, you would expect Volvo, to know how to produce the software correctly, ie like all the other ev cars????
Three, same old, "by design", to get people fed up even buying the alternative ev car, so people don't buy ANY car, ie. no cars
Ring a bell folks??? 😊
Love the large knobs only on cars Geoff
Thank you, as always Geoff for your videos 😊☀️
thanks geoff i'm really scared of evs too. they are very dangerous for knocking down pedestrians. the eu is bad too and foreigners are everywhere. why can't it be like the 70s again? keep up the good work😊
Simple to operate is good. It is safer.
I like having a key - it goes into a slot and stays there, happy and content and out of the way - even better, if the battery in the key fails the key still works.
I like indicators on a stalk (why anyone would do any different is nuts, virtually no one wants anything different).
I like having a gear lever (not buttons or a round thing) because I know from feeling the position of the lever what gear/direction is set.
I like having a spare tyre - every so often it becomes important.
I like simple switches for windows, mirrors, wipers, hazards (some hazzard switches are poorly located), headlights - no it's not "I like" - it's essntial these things are simple switches. (I think it should be in the design rules for wipers and headlights - I am pretty sure it is for hazards)
As somone who has a partner and daughter who both mess with the A/C in strange random ways making it easy to return it to rational settings by having knobs is a good thing.
Surely , if it illegal to interact wit your smartphone IN ANY WAY whilst driving....how on earth is it legal to play with an iPad whilst driving ?? insane