Volvo V70 Big Brake Upgrade

[@Jayv70]

Loving the volvo content! you've got such a good attitude to working on it knowing how much these can be a pain in the arse to work on sometimes haha

[@samwel69]

Cheers 👍 yea I love this old boat, some jobs on it are a bit of a pain, but I'd rather work on this then any other car

[@brauhmaudio8388]

Nice I did mine recently also

[@barryjackson8512]

Nice upgrade. Massive them. Here’s be getting excited about fitting 256 on my mk2 Astra 🤣

[@samwel69]

Yea I think my volvo probably weighs twice as much as a mk2 astra lol iv got 300mm discs on my nova 😁

[@dotgovdotbollox]

Thank you for posting this, did you have any problems with the original hoses attaching to upgraded calipers?

[@samwel69]

Nope the v70 brake hoses work fine with the xc90 calipers 👍

[@dotgovdotbollox]

thank you

[@MrJwc1234]

My 2005 xc70 is the same and I'm wanting to do the same up grade. What year xc90 calipers and rotors should I get??

[@samwel69]

They are just mk1 xc90 2002-2012, you just have to make sure you buy the 336mm discs and caliper to suit, if you go on ebay then are usually listed as 336mm calipers.

[@assasmentking6529]

Hi, Have a question. I am thinking about uppgrading my s60 2,5t brakes to R brakes from s60R/v70R (brembo). How is it to do this uppgrade? Is it as you say? only drill up the bolt holes to 40mm and thats it you need to thread those holes? bolt on everything? or what more you need to do?

[@samwel69]

I'm pretty sure the v70r brembo's are a direct bolt on, no modifications needed

[@rodin6341]

​@@samwel69maybe you only need about 15mm wheel spacers for more clearance between rim and brembo shoe