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2011 Volvo 122 Repair Question


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Asked on November 20, 2012

Volvo 122 Dealer Problem

Why dose volvo sometimes replace fully usable spare parts with a new part number?
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Replied on November 20, 2012

Not sure what you mean by "fully usable spare parts", but if you mean you try to buy a new part from the dealer and they give you something with a different part number, it's typically because an improvement was made to increase reliability, a change was made to address a common failure, or some other change was made that is significant enough to want to tell it apart from the old version. "Superseded" parts and part numbers are real common.

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