Originally Posted by alabbasi

A buddy of mine called me the other day about his car. He owns a 2001 Volvo S60 T5 with 113k miles on it. He's owned it for about 8 years and put 90k miles on it himself.

He always serviced it at the volvo dealer so I know that it's well taken care of. He left for Canada at the beginning of the year and let a friend of his borrow the car during that time. When he got it back 3rd gear was not working.

You could shift it manually through the shifttronic deal but when you hit third, it will go into neutral. Fourth and Fifth gear is fine.

His friend told him that he took the car in for servicing and the shop flushed the transmission which is when this happened.

Does anyone know anything about these Volvo 5 speeds? I'd like to know if they interchange with anything else, or if this is a common problem that can easily be address.

The transmission shop that he took it to gave him quotes of $2500 for a valve body and almost $4k for a rebuild which doesn't make a lick of sense on an 11 year old car.