Volvo S60 Saloon, P3

The saloon version of the same car, better looking and considerably less useful, which is why it sells for less.

Overview

The P3 is the sedan Volvo S60, built 2010–2018 and facelifted in 2013. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €2,950–€12,050, and 0 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The cheapest way in is the 2.0D D4204T from €3,900, while the 2.5T B5254T is the lowest-risk engine at €4,600, so which engine you buy matters more here than which year. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylesedanProduction2010–2018
Platform siblingsP3 wagonFacelift (LCI)2013
What changed at the 2013 facelift
New nose and interior; Revised four-cylinder engines. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20102012

The 3 variants sold before the 2013 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

3 of 3
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.0DD4204Tdiesel20102012136 PS320 NmR34€2,950€7,800€3,900Buy w/ conditionsView
D5D5244Tdiesel20102012205 PS420 NmR24€3,850€11,050€5,150BuyView
2.5TB5254Tpetrol20102012231 PS340 NmR22€3,500€9,650€4,600Buy w/ conditionsView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20132018

The 3 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

3 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

3 of 3
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.0DD4204Tdiesel20132015136 PS320 NmR34€3,200€8,500€4,200Buy w/ conditionsView
D5D5244Tdiesel20132016205 PS420 NmR24€4,200€12,050€5,600BuyView
2.5TB5254Tpetrol20132014231 PS340 NmR22€3,800€10,550€5,000Buy w/ conditionsView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant101112131415161718
2.0D D4204T
D5 D5244T
2.5T B5254T

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2013 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€4k€4.5k€5kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓2.0D D4204T: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €3,9002.0D2.5T B5254T: Buy with conditions, risk 2, good buy €4,6002.5TD5 D5244T: Buy, risk 2, good buy €5,150D5
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. Polestar cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€3,9002.0D D4204T
Median good buy€4,600across 3 engines
Dearest good buy€5,150D5 D5244T
Full range€2,950€12,050P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · D5 D5244T highlighted as best value

€5k€7.5k€10kGood buy
2.0D D4204T€3,9002.5T B5254T€4,600D5 D5244T€5,150

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Front suspension bush and link wearS60 platform€300–€700
Knocking over bumps and at low speed, vague steering, and uneven wear across the front tyres. These are heavy cars and the front bushes and links wear accordingly. It's ordinary wear rather than a design fault, but it turns up sooner than owners expect and on a set of tyres too.
Check: Drive over rough surfaces listening for a knock, then on a ramp lever each front bush and link for play and look at the inside edges of the tyres.
SuspensioncommonPartly detectableevidence: documented110200k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: Polestar cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Identical engine advice to the estate. The 2.4 D5 is the one to have and the Ford-derived 2.0D is the one to check. The saloon is usually cheaper than an equivalent V70 for no mechanical reason at all, so it's the value buy of the pair if you can live without the boot.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

2.0D D4204T : from €2,950, risk 3

2.5T B5254T : from €3,500, risk 2

D5 D5244T : from €3,850, risk 2

Lowest risk

2.5T B5254T : risk 2, good buy at €4,600

D5 D5244T : risk 2, good buy at €5,150

2.0D D4204T : risk 3, good buy at €3,900