V40 brakes - poor braking for a minute in morning.

[tckim]

Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold startup
lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre changed a vacume
hose with no improvement.
Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open
from inside.

[Bonnet Lock]

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
tckim <tehch...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:

What do you want us to do about it?
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[Plain Bob]

"tckim" <tehch...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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How interesting.

[Perry Noid]

don't know about the door, but a friend had a similar problem with brakes in
his Audi.... Very weak for the first few minutes, but then seemed normal.
Found out it was a vacuum leak in the hose from the brake booster to the
intake manifold... guess it took a little while for the vacuum to build up
enough to give good braking action. Suggest you have that part of the system
checked.... if they replaced a hose, that might be the area, but perhaps
they didn't do it right????

[Ron]

Check with volvo I think there is a recall about water getting into a
vacuum pump that messes with the brakes. Good luck.

[Robert MacTurk]

I took my '01 S40 (85K miles) in to the dealer and they had 3 recalls on my
car - one of them was for the brake booster. They should all be done as
warranty service. I also had a software upgrade, that one cost me.
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