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Has anybody had any experience towing with the Volvo V50 Diesel? I have seen one on the forecourt which is a 57 plate and done around 14,000 miles. I just needed some feedback on any good and bad points.

Thanks.

Spare wheel in the luggage compartment under the carpet.

I made an error, the car has actually done 94,000 miles not 14,000 as I thought. I misread the information in the side window when it was getting dusk.

The spare wheel is a space saver like many cars with 17 or 18 inch tall and wide alloys !

The car in question was voted towcar of the year when your car was new

http://www.caravanclub.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C7D161DE-4CBE-4319-B3AB-50520C687760/0/towcaroftheyear2007october06.pdf

Nearly all Volvo owners need written instructions that there car can do 60 MPH on an A or B roads

9 time out of 10 when there's a Que of slow moving traffic, there's a Volvo at the front

I had one for a couple of years, a 55 plate that went back to the lease company with 120k on the clock. We pulled our van (1300kg) across france a couple of times with it, the only problem is its weight, a bit light for our van and sometimes a bit twitchy unless the teenagers were on board with all the gear. Also my main gripe was lack of storage space for oddments like cd's!, a real problem with a family.

They're basically a focus with a volvo shell as they are owned by ford, the 2.0d 136bhp is a ford based motor and goes like stink! we did however have it overheating on the mediteranean hills whilst towing, the computer knows this and starts to cut out the turbo, then the aircon, great whilst going up a long incline in 40deg heat!!

It wasn't the most reliable car I have owned, many trips to the dealer for, turbo control valves, diesel particulate filter, 3x wheel bearings, DMF and clutch at 65k.