I have tried to make a volvo xc70. Made the model from scratch.





I have tried to replicate the suspension and engine (d5) as best as I can. But both are still kinda weird and I think I will need some help. Steering wheel has a really bad shake when braking with abs.


I feel like I had to get some extreme values on the sliders to get it to some what replicate the power curve of a d5 engine. Which seems weird. Maybe someone can tell me what Im doing wrong.



Unfortunately the interior is really simple untextured low poly right now. Steering Wheel and other assets stolen from other LFS cars.

After looking at the new rb4 I feelt like this car model is lacking alot of quality and detail. I would like to try to get it to rb4 quality or atleast VWS quality, but that would probably involve redoing the whole model.

I will probably upload the car for approval later today if someone doesn't point out any major/stupid issues

Edit: Also does anyone have name suggestions?

I have uploaded the mod for review. And here I am attaching the templates for skinning. The cutouts and mappings have the same aspect ratio which means that there is no major stretching on the skin texture. But the skins will be unfortunately lower resolution. Much easier to skin though as you dont have to stretch everything.

Why not more powerful 215bhp version? 😉
On suspension diagram I see that on rear suspension lower control arms are not shorter than upper ones (and I dont see anywhere to upper Control arm was longer than lower 😀)

https://chiptuningpro.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CHIP-TUNING-volvo-xc60-2-0-d4-181-km-400-nm-1024x819.jpg 185 dyno sheet

https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=179135&page=2 boost value on 185 version (I think 215 just has more)


https://volvozone.eu/files/cache/product/280415/31476223-nakresvz-800x600.jpg rear suspension diagram (4- upper control arm ,5- lower Control arm)


Maybe you need more research but model is very good
I like that swedish tank 😀

Got one of these on my garage. If you need detailed photos or measurements, just let me know.

Good work.

Quote from hooligan_rallyteam :

Why not more powerful 215bhp version? 😉
On suspension diagram I see that on rear suspension lower control arms are not shorter than upper ones (and I dont see anywhere to upper Control arm was longer than lower 😀)

https://chiptuningpro.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CHIP-TUNING-volvo-xc60-2-0-d4-181-km-400-nm-1024x819.jpg 185 dyno sheet

https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=179135&page=2 boost value on 185 version (I think 215 just has more)


https://volvozone.eu/files/cache/product/280415/31476223-nakresvz-800x600.jpg rear suspension diagram (4- upper control arm ,5- lower Control arm)


Maybe you need more research but model is very good
I like that swedish tank 😀

The car is the 215 bhp d5 version.

Kinda hard to see how long the control arms are compared to each other in your picture but this is where i got the measurments from https://www.autodoc.se/reservdelar/lankarmar-bararmar-langsgaende-tvarstallda-10671/volvo/xc70/xc70-ii

I also think its kinda weird that the upper arms is longer than the lower but thats how it looks to me on your picture too. Do you know where I could find better measurments/diagrams?

Here is where I got the boost pressure from. https://www.media.volvocars.com/uk/en-gb/media/pressreleases/18417 I think that should be the same on the xc70.

https://youtu.be/_qFKFgJ7PnM?t=12

I might be dumb but isn't this the lower arm?

Quote from ClasK_03 :

I also think its kinda weird that the upper arms is longer than the lower but thats how it looks to me on your picture too. Do you know where I could find better measurments/diagrams?

I don't know how much help this is as it's a small pic, but i can see the upper and lower control arm attachment points there so it might give some direction

There is no "Upper Control Arm" in the back of the P3 Volvo cars like this one. you have a rear subframe with 1 lower control arm. here is the suspension diagram from V O L V O

Edit: My terminology is also incorrect, the LCA is referred to as a "Trailing arm" (10 in diagram) while the arm that swings up and down with the hub attachment is the actual control arm (8)

I am enjoying this mod so far. Really like what you did with the rear lights

Wondering about the Police version. At the moment the color contrast between off and on I think leaves something to be desired compared to other mods. Maybe could look at other mods to see how they did it?

On that same line of thought, it would be nice if the roof lightbar had some secondary phase maybe attached to the indicators, just so it's not cycling between off and on when using TC Lights or other strobe software

It's cool so far, looking forward for updates.
Also do you think a tow edition would be possible? So basically just amber lights instead of the blue ones on the police edition.
I made an ADAC skin for it, and it would be a nice final touch