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Bouillon Rube posted:So is the Trailblazer hold the record for the most badge-engineered car ever? I was sitting in traffic behind an Izuzu Ascender last week and trying to think of all the names that it was sold under The British were pretty good with their badge engineering once BMC and British Leyland merged. I think you could get the original Mini as the following: Austin 850 Rover Mini Austin Cooper Austin Mini Austin Partner Austin Seven Innocenti Mini Leyland Mini Morris 850 Morris Mascot Morris Mini Riley Elf Wolseley 1000 Wolseley Hornet
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PaintVagrant posted:Was this your first car, if I remember correctly? Yup. I'm a 39yo first time driver. Wooooo. chrisgt posted:Ugh, lovely! Temp gauge was slap bang in the middle. Appears t be more of an overpressure event for the coolant. Didn't have the app running on my phone at the time, or I would have posted graphs.
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Kilonum posted:Car update: head gasket blew, cumbusted into coolant, radiator hose split There is always an Option 3 dude
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Just gold enough. I like that a lot, man. Looks great. Appresh! Guinness posted:This is exactly the right amount of subtle green and gold on that car, love it Thank you, sir! Front carbon fiber lip going on next week 
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Kilonum posted:Yup. I'm a 39yo first time driver. Wooooo. Ouch  Good luck with it.
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dissss posted:There is always an Option 3 dude ...LS swap?
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dissss posted:There is always an Option 3 dude Buy six rusty Subarus like me, and then turn the Volvo into a project that'll never get finished? Or do you mean the sensible thing, and buy a Toyota Corolla, and keep the Volvo as a project.
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Bouillon Rube posted:...LS swap? I wish
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chrisgt posted:Buy six rusty Subarus like me, and then turn the Volvo into a project that'll never get finished? I live in an apartment, and my lease limits me to one car per adult resident.
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I mean, I've got a Justy that needs love. (Do not actually take this seriously, these are a challenge to keep alive even for truly warped individuals who like pain.)
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Kilonum posted:After being registered and driven for *checks notes* 13 days, this happened (skip to 2 minute mark) 
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Kilonum posted:I live in an apartment, and my lease limits me to one car per adult resident. Well, THAT's unAmerican.
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probably gonna get me a bunch of lols and lmaos but hell, if i'm gonna have one, i'm enjoying it (file photo)
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kastein posted:I mean, I've got a Justy that needs love. (Do not actually take this seriously, these are a challenge to keep alive even for truly warped individuals who like pain.) I have a [running] biturbo, how much worse could it be... Can you fit a 3cyl kubota diesel into a justy?
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chrisgt posted:I have a [running] biturbo, how much worse could it be... I have no idea but the distance from the bellhousing mating surface to the opposite frame rail is roughly 17 inches, which isn't a whole lot for adapter plate, block, and front drive accessories. Even the stock engine is a pretty tight fit. I don't think it is much worse, aside from Justys being throwaway sub economy cars and biturbos being "rich people poo poo" so more likely to have sat around to provide spare parts than a Justy.
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carry on then posted:probably gonna get me a bunch of lols and lmaos but hell, if i'm gonna have one, i'm enjoying it Curiously enough, that's the second one in this thread! PirateDentist posted:I pretty much just lurk here, but I just had a weekend adventure and got what is probably a boring car for this place. Sold my '07 Fit on Friday at home in AZ, talked to a Cali dealership on Saturday, took an overnight Amtrak to LA on Sunday, and drove home a new '20 Sonata Hybrid Limited on Monday.
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EVERYWHERE 
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meatpimp posted:Curiously enough, that's the second one in this thread! Ah neat, hybrid vs n-line. Kind of a quirky car but I like it.
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Darchangel posted:Well, THAT's unAmerican.
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Krakkles posted:A rich land owner telling proles what they can’t do sounds pretty American to me. Point.
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Kilonum posted:I live in an apartment, and my lease limits me to one car per adult resident. So do I and I don't even have an assigned space, but I'm slowly taking over the street from the VAG with 20 year old japanese cars.
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$4300 to swap the engine. I bought a loving lemon. 
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Kilonum posted:$4300 to swap the engine. I bought a loving lemon. I'm positive I speak for everyone here when I say: "Do not spend any more money on this car"
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Yeah, it really sucks but please don't put any more money into a dead 250k mile Volvo.
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Kilonum posted:$4300 to swap the engine. I bought a loving lemon. Sucks to hear that it blew up. These things happen though, and I concur with the "please don't sink money into this".
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Did you buy it from a dealer? They’ll almost certainly tell you to gently caress off but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
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Bouillon Rube posted:Did you buy it from a dealer? They’ll almost certainly tell you to gently caress off but it doesn’t hurt to ask. No, private seller.
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It still wouldn’t hurt to contact a private seller. Nothing ventured nothing gained. That stinks.
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MrOnBicycle posted:Sucks to hear that it blew up. Even if I wanted to, I can't. I had sunk all my money into buying this car. loving serves me right for wanting to get wheels so I could get a job farther than loving walking distance which limits me to loving lovely rear end retail bullshit.
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Tough lesson to learn. Sorry dude that’s super lame. Echoing what other say and urge not so spend money on it.
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Surely, SURELY we can find a fricken motor for a few hundred bucks and local boys can help swap it. Come on goons I know it can be done.
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Kilonum posted:$4300 to swap the engine. I bought a loving lemon. No its a P2 not a lemon. Lemons can be fixed. Cash it in for a redblock powered Volvo and you're good.
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Bape Culture posted:Surely, SURELY we can find a fricken motor for a few hundred bucks and local boys can help swap it. This is a great way to learn how to wrench. Swapping a motor seems daunting but I tell every person that has never worked on a car the same thing: It's just nuts and bolts. If you can find a helper or two, watch a couple youtube videos and afford some tools and time, you can be a mechanic basically. Or at least a parts swapper.  You can do it, OP!
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I'm financially hosed All my money went into buying this car I'm barely going to be able to pay for the diagnostic work that has been done.
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I wish I had the time to help because you aren't even that far away. What are the 6th and 7th vin digits, 52 or 59? I'm guessing 52 unless it's an s60r? I see a few engines for like, 250 on carpart listed as running well, but I have no idea how much worse the transverse ones are to work on. I gotta say I was expecting the trans to explode on it first (aren't those the ones with the unreliable angle gear drive?) But yeah those cars are not particularly reliable. I know a guy looking to ditch a Volvo 940 from the early 00s that's... Allegedly more reliable? I don't think he's asking more than scrap price at this point. It was his GFs daily driver until it needed a new throttle body, he may even have the part but it needs to be coded to the ECU or something. He thought he was going to fix and sell it but it's been sitting years at this point and he hasn't touched it and has no interest in doing so because he makes more at his day job than he would loving with the car. If you might be interested I can talk to him about it. It's parked in New Braintree behind the hangar we have been using as a shared workshop for the last few years. If anyone wants to naysay this idea too, please do it right now, because I don't wanna sell kilonum on another lemon by accident and I don't know poo poo about Volvos made any time in the last 25 years.
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If it needs a throttle body coded it’s definitely not a 940. I’ve owned 10+ Volvos, stay the gently caress away from most of them.
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The last RWD Volvo was 98 and that was badged as an S90 or V90.
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It's a '99 2.5 NA V70, as far as I can tell from looking at it in the dark and flailing around with a vin decoder chart last night.
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I picked this up for pretty cheap. I have a buddy who does time attack and road course racing that I'm thinking of using this for. It has a lot of upgrades and mods on it from the previous owner, quite peppy little car.
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