Volvo V70 ETS

The ETS (electronic throttle system) broke on my Volvo V70. So naturaly I think that a Volvo service place will repair this things. WRONG! We can excange it for you and it will cost about $1200.

In my world you fix things when they are broken, you dont replace whole parts. In my line of work we fix broken things all day long. People come in to us and we do electronic service changing the component that are bad. It can be a transistor or a resistor that usaly cost almost nothing compaired to the whole circuit board.

Anyway, I ended up getting a new one because this part was super duper special and only Volvo sold it. But I said that I want the old part and that I was going to take it a part and if I see that it is something stupid like a component for $1 I will come back and !"#¤%! So I ended up "only" paying $600, if I promist that I would not come back and !"#¤% them up.

I got the old part back and tonight I took it apart.

On both sides of the ETS there are this black plastic caps that house two potentiometer that keep track on where the axel are and how much it is open. This is the problem, because they are about the only thing that wear out. I mesured this and they are not consistant as they should be.

The ETS are build to be in a tough enviroment so I can see that it is hard to change this and get every thing back together and be all weather proof, but for a Volvo service place they should realy have the tools to fix this kind of things.

Im not an engineering but I could have made this product alot better, both in precision and easy to maintain. 

It piss me off that most stuff to day are ware and tare. When it breakes throw it out and buy a new one.  

SHAME ON YOU VOLVO!