Hi,
My wifes '02 S60 awd had a serious vibration start up about 2 weeks ago. We live in VT, and so we have 16" steel rims with hakkas. I thought the vibration way to serious to be things such as mud caked on the rims etc.

We just got the quote!!!

It seems that both front axles are shot, as well as a strut and sundry other things (control arm bushings and tie rod). For a grand total of $3,200.00 (It really sucks that we need to get new summer/all season tires too)

The car has just done 90k we have owned for the past 30k miles. Neither of us are hard drivers although this winter the roads have been absolutely shocking.

So my questions are:
1) Should we expect that these components should have such a short life?
2) If we get it fixed can we expect to confront this work in another 3or4 years?
3) What maintenance issues are we missing (the car has always been serviced by the Volvo Indie place we bought it, there has never been a suggestion that this problem was starting and left unattended).

Any other comments would be appreciated

cheers,

Rod