Volvo XC60 XC60, DZ

A comfortable, quiet SUV on the same platform as the V70 and S60, and one of the safest cars of its era. It's softer than the German rivals and better for it on a bad road.

Overview

The DZ is the SUV Volvo XC60, built 2008–2017 and facelifted in 2013. 2 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €7,000–€18,550, and 0 of the 2 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The D5 D5244T is both the cheapest way in, from €9,000, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body styleSUVProduction2008–2017
Platform siblingssold in this body onlyFacelift (LCI)2013
What changed at the 2013 facelift
Revised nose and lights; Updated interior and infotainment; Drive-E four-cylinder engines from 2015. 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, 20082012

The 2 variants sold before the 2013 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

2 of 2
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
D4D5244Tdiesel20112012163 PS420 NmR34€7,500€16,000€9,250BuyView
D5D5244Tdiesel20082012205 PS420 NmR34€7,000€17,000€9,000BuyView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20132017

The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

2 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.

2 of 2
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
D4D5244Tdiesel20132014163 PS420 NmR34€8,200€17,450€10,100BuyView
D5D5244Tdiesel20132015205 PS420 NmR34€7,650€18,550€9,850BuyView

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.

Variant08091011121314151617
D4 D5244T
D5 D5244T

● 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€9k€9.1k€9.2kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓D5 D5244T: Buy, risk 3, good buy €9,000D5D4 D5244T: Buy, risk 3, good buy €9,250D4
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€9,000D5 D5244T
Median good buy€9,250across 2 engines
Dearest good buy€9,250D4 D5244T
Full range€7,000€18,550P10 to P90

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

€10k€15kGood buy
D5 D5244T€9,000D4 D5244T€9,250

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 wearXC60 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 2 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.

Best value: D5, the in-house five-cylinder diesel that suits a car this heavy. Its oil trap and breather system want checking, because a blocked one pushes oil past the seals. Check the front suspension for knocks over broken ground, since the bushes wear on every car on this platform. So confirm the four-wheel drive engages on an AWD car and ask when its coupling oil was changed.

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

D5 D5244T : from €7,000, risk 3

D4 D5244T : from €7,500, risk 3

Lowest risk

D5 D5244T : risk 3, good buy at €9,000

D4 D5244T : risk 3, good buy at €9,250