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Oxphocker posted:I don;t think the Haldex system comes about until the P2 platform which would mean cars 2001 or older. The 98-00 cars are still the P1 platform with the viscous coupling. The old visco AWD was used until 2002 on the P2 V70 & XC70, meaning that the 2003s (and some late 2002s) have Haldex. No car after 2002 has the visco, so the S60 or XC90 was never made with the visco. Nidhg00670000 fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Dec 28, 2010 |
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Snow, you say? V50? Why yes. And this is just from standing on the goddamn parking lot at work for 4 hours WITH the block heater & interior heater plugged in. Somewhat windy that night.
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Jan 15, 2011 01:13
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Augmented Dickey posted:Nope. It definitely locks and the lights flash, but no beep AFAIK, the factory alarm doesn't have a beeper installed for that.
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Jan 18, 2011 22:37
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Heater core in a S70 T5, how bad is it? LloydDobler? Anyone? It is really starting to wear me down, this car. I bought a V50, and ever since everything is blowing up on the S70, making me postpone putting up an ad for it... Now it's the heater core, last week it was the right rear spring. The week before that someone smashed my right mirror, less than a week after I got a new left one because a lorry took it off by passing me too close when I was parked, he was doing at least 55 mph. The closest to death I've been so far this year.
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Mar 6, 2011 16:15
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Well, didn't have time to fix the heater core in the S70 because it got sold (the ad was up when I discovered the leaking core). A gentleman barely in his twenties showed up with insurance money burning a hole in his pocket and a friend in tow. I just gave them the keys and told them with a straight face that "v-tec kicks in at 2500 rpm". They didn't laugh, but seemed properly impressed that "an old Volvo had such advanced technology". To clarify, I know it doesn't have anything like it, and it's more that boost starts building good at 2.5k rpm, but these guys whole appearance and mannerism showed me that they where the kind of people who watch any one of the Fast & Furious movies at least once a week. They didn't even bother to pull up the oil stick. Usually I'm too honest when it comes to selling cars (also known as being a lousy salesman), but when I tried to tell them the things I though needed fixing pretty soon, they basically told me that they knew their poo poo and it was no biggie.  Good luck with the clutch release bearing, the shot crank ventilation and the heater core then. Dicks. Of note should be that Volvos grip on the market here in Sweden is such that an old Volvo Turbo is (almost) always an option for a young man looking for power.
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Mar 20, 2011 16:29
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Augmented Dickey posted:Why did Volvo decide to put a bigass clock on the dash instead of a tach? Is that normal for cars of this vintage? At least when it comes to euro cars, a lot of older base models came with a clock instead of a tach. In Volvos case, if you got for example a 240 GLT or Turbo instead, you got the tach and the clock moved to the centre console, like this. (These pictures are from two different 240s, they just illustrate my point).  
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Apr 9, 2011 20:37
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the poi posted:Looks like a near factory LPG installation too? What makes you think that? The text makes no mention of it, and LPG cars are really rare in Sweden, but that doesn't mean this car isn't one. I'm inquisitive, not accusatory, never having looked under the bonnet of a LPG car.
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Apr 10, 2011 11:31
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as halfway crooks posted:im gonna do the pcv on my 850 soon, im scared Turbo or na? Here and here you have two different guides for turbo cars that people I know have used.
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Apr 23, 2011 15:31
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Depends, what engine are we talking about here? Apologies from Sweden if you only have one engine to choose from where you live.
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Apr 24, 2011 06:05
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The V50s ECC stopped working. The AC shop tells me my condenser is shot. A new one is ordered, the AC shop is going to empty and vacuum the system for me, and after me and dad change it they'll fill it and pressure test it. Still, not looking forward to the job of replacing it. I guess I could get pissed off seeing as how the car is only five years old, but the odo is showing 140k miles so...
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May 11, 2011 01:23
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Splizwarf posted:Wife and I both pop wood when one blows past. She's got some "extra parts", I take it?
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Jan 15, 2012 23:04
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:What should I do with this? From what I've learned from these here forums, *you* shouldn't take it apart in any way or capacity. Get someone else to do it, fine. Just don't do it yourself, 'cause things you take apart seem to stay apart.  Welcome to Jonestown.
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Jan 23, 2012 00:40
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 And then I opened the brake pad pack and discovered that the guy at the parts shop had given me the wrong brake pads.  And since it was sunday afternoon, I just said "gently caress it" to myself and left it like that overnight rather than put it back together with the old parts. (There is a jack stand in there, the brake shield just manages to obscure it completely somehow.)
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Jul 16, 2012 01:05
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Pretty Cool Name posted:Most likely buying a first generation s40 2.0t sedan from a friend of mine this week. It's got the typical rust on the fenders around the wheels but other than that it's great and it's fairly cheap to fix. Paying $1500 for it, this is in Sweden so it probably doesn't compare directly to US prices, but I think it's pretty fair. Phase 2 cars are better in every way but I guess if you get a working, albeit rusted 2,0T for 10000 kr or whatever you could do worse. Although if you look around a bit, you can get a S70 for the same money, and I'd say that's a better car in almost every respect.
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Sep 19, 2012 03:17
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Here in the sunny paradise that is Sweden, we pay about 8.2 dollars per gallon for petrol right now. That's why I really really tried to talk my friend out of the idea of buying an XC90 V8. He still did. 2006 XC90 V8 Executive with 150k kilometres (93k miles) on it. Having never even bothered to look at XC90s before, what could I reasonably expect to blow up first (since I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get called in to fix it/help him fix it)?
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Sep 20, 2012 23:35
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I'm not 100% sure, but it seems implausible that there would be many of these running around, so I think this ad I just spotted is a friends old car. Really thinking about calling the dude up.    It's a 145 body on a C202 chassie.
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Oct 6, 2012 00:59
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zundfolge posted:The main failure point in the AWD system is the driveshaft, which manifests itself as a low-speed rumble while turning or a hum at speed; it's easy to replace, though, and you can get a rebuilt one from Colorado Driveshaft for ~$400. Make sure the tires are worn evenly and the same size all around, and that you don't hear any weird noises from it. No, not really? The angle gear/bevel gear is the classic point of failure on older AWD Volvos. In the five years my cousin worked at a Volvo dealer, more than a third of the old viscous coupling AWDs they traded in had a busted angle gear. This fucker right here is what I'm talking about. 
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Oct 20, 2012 01:28
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Augmented Dickey posted:I have no idea why, but I love how the badge is offset on older Volvo grilles. I believe it is called "having good taste". I really like them too.
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Drunken Lullabies posted:I'm in the market for an AWD or RWD station wagon and I happened upon a listing for a gen 1 V70R AWD on craigslist. I don't know anything about Volvos, does anyone know anything about this model? Worth looking into? I've never heard of it, but it satisfies my desire for rear facing seats. Two things to specifically look out for on older AWDs is the angle gear that routes power to the rear wheels and the viscous coupling that adjusts how much the rear wheels slip/drive. Those two are classic points of failure on older AWD Volvos. Applicable all the way up to (and including) 2002, meaning that the first years of the second gen AWD V70s have the same problem. When the angle gear or coupling is broken the rear wheels will have no power whatsoever, meaning it is a heavier FWD car. Here's the official Volvo test for the viscous coupling. 
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Dec 24, 2012 01:34
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Cakefool posted:Roll bar drop links The quality on these are hilariously bad. I changed mine every year on the S70. And yes, they where Volvo OEM parts.
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Cakefool posted:Alright, I'm in a stupid mood, what so I need to do to get 200+bhp out of a 140bhp lpt 98 v70? A what? Lowest power turbo engine in those is the 2.0T with 180 hp. 2.5 140 hp isn't turboed. The TDI is turboed and has 140 hp but I guess you would have said diesel if it was?
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Mar 22, 2013 23:23
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Very nice! And with that typical pouch sag that'll always have a place in my heart...  Beach Bum posted:Cloth seats, you sonofabitch Cloth seats unusual in the states or something?
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May 2, 2013 05:06
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The B234 is also gifted with hydraulic tappets! 
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May 8, 2013 20:14
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Bought discs & pads front and rear for the V50 in October. Or at least discs and front pads, because the local budget place didn't have any rear pads and wouldn't get them for 8 weeks. Alright, that's cool. I was just going to do the front at that time anyway. And then when the car was in the air with both sides dismantled, I take out the pads and realize that what I have is rear pads, not front pads. I do all my poo poo at my dads place, 65 miles roundtrip from home out in the woods. Having left the car on jackstands over the night and going home in his 745, I return the next day with the correct front pads (from another, much more expensive part shop). Ok, all done. Last week my rear brakes started scraping, so it was time. Now, I had rear discs & pads that I bought in October, remember? WRONG. The budget shop not only managed to give me rear pads instead of front pads, they gave me the wrong rear pads. Which I discovered when I had the car up and both sides taken apart.  (After the first debacle, I opened and checked before I started and they looked correct, but there was an additional millimetre of pad width that made it impossible to install them.)So, another 65 mile roundtrip to buy the correct pads at the high price place. Having lost the receipt on the other pads since October, I'll just use them as giveaway candy on Halloween or something.
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Terrible Robot posted:[...] '88 244dl [...] factory shift light [...] The what now? 
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Funny thing, the whiteblock M90 is pretty rare here in Sweden, since the 960 3.0 sold only with auto here, and the 2.5 didn't sell much (and they weren't all manual either). Typical price for a whiteblock M90 with a lot of miles on it and no work done would be about 500-750 USD eqv. Redblock M90s on the other hand, I can basically have ten in my garage tomorrow if I'd be so inclined. But if it comes to that, I'd be game to hunt for some M90s (or Volvo parts in general). Paying it forward, so to speak.
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I've found out what happens to all the whiteblock M90s in Sweden at least. There's a guy who is buying every last one of them and selling them through his company. ALL adds I see for whiteblock M90s are from his company. He wants 1100 USD eqv for an unrenovated box with about 75k miles on it. It's not just high prices, the swedish krona is the strongest it has been in five years vs the USD. But he certainly isn't cheap either. You can buy a BMW ZF box with a rewelded bellhousing for that. I don't know how the market looks over there, but an adapter for mounting a redblock or BMW box to a whiteblock engine costs about 350 USD here, since it was mentioned. Here's the company the people I know got theirs from.
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I'm kind of seriously tempted. http://translate.google.se/translat...ca%3D10%26w%3D3
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LloydDobler posted:I've never liked 240s    sweden.jpg
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Aug 16, 2013 15:01
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It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission!
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I know most of us here are in the US and therefore haven't even seen a diesel Volvo, but I'll try asking anyway. I recently had a 2012 V70 D3 as a rental, and I noticed an *extremely* useful feature. As you reached the friction point (from a stand still), the engine gave a little gas all by itself, thereby making it almost impossible to stall the engine. This was such a smooth feature that I started wondering why all (manual) cars don't have it by now. But anyway, my question is; does anyone know when they introduced this feature? All I know is that my 2006 V50 doesn't have it. And that after driving a V70 D3 with less than 5k miles on it for five days, my 180k miles V50 feels like a complete shitbox. 
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My grandma once stepped into the wrong car when I came to pick her up. She said the guys in the other car looked very surprised but didn't say anything before she stepped out again. My (grandpas really, but whatever) car was a Nissan Sunny and the car she got into was a Ford Escort... (same colour though) In other, somewhat Volvo related news my diesel heater, my left front wheel bearing *and* my graphics card decided to get hosed on the same day. Great.
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Well tbh, a Rover V8 won't exactly be a powerhouse without lots of work and money.
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In my experience 95% of all 850s tick. It's always the lifters, and it's never a big enough problem for anyone to care, that's why you don't see people going in there just to replace them. Might as well do the timing belt and cam seals if you're replacing them, though.
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zundfolge posted:I think a lot of the criticism stems from the fact that they require a lot of regular (and expensive) maintenance to stay running Well, I don't agree completely here. The 850 was Volvos first FWD car (if we don't count the 400-series) and it shows. Most things are well thought out and easy to work with, but they suffer from the french disease, where there is always some little thing that needs fixing. They are pretty sturdy in the end though, and if you don't care about long term survivability the "regular and expensive maintenance" becomes much less expensive (and much less regular too!). I have plenty of coworkers that uses theirs as commuter cars, and some of them hasn't even changed oil filters in years.
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TerminalBlue posted:
An hour, tops. More if you curse a lot (old DIY secret).
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mafoose posted:Doesn't really matter, the manuals in all volvos are made of glass, and the autos in the FWD cars are even weaker, so maybe made of fine china? I was putting 315hp/430Nm through my M56 for about 75k miles with no problems and I know others with similar power numbers running just fine. As long as you don't go crazy doing wheel hop starts every day they hold up really well, the ones I know that breaks usually blow the diff. The autos break because everyone believes the poo poo about "lifetime fluids", not because they're any worse than many other slushboxes.
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Cancelbot posted:I should be buying a 2006+ S40 in January if my bonus comes through. I'm aware of the issues but the one I'm most concerned about is the teves ABS pump fault with the fix being £1200 (apparently). Is the ABS pump easy to find if I were to bring a torch and look in the engine bay? The Bosch units poo poo themselves too. Mine did. EDIT: And the ABS still works when the fault appears, it's the stability and traction control that dies. I've driven my V50 for three years now with non-working DSTC.
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Cancelbot posted:Further to my previous questions. I've spotted this; This was a while ago, but I'd avoid the '05 simply because it's an '05 (plus it's an auto, but thats up to you really). Newer is better with the C/S/V 30/40/50. The early cars had lots and lots of electrical gremlins. I've got an '06 and it likes to randomly lose all electrical power in both left doors about two or three times per year. Comes back after a couple of days every time.
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Mostly yes, FWD requires a whole other driving style. Manual or auto?
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