"I also like to live dangerously" Seems like you have some good suggestions here. If you haven't done this job before just make sure to check waaaay under your carpet for coolant. The top of the floorboard soundproofing foam is rubber so it's possible to miss the coolant and a couple of us...

kallekula wrote: ↑16 May 2020, 11:36 I painted my fuel rail cover in gun metal gray.

Looks good, alot of people on the on the FB v70 group paint them an ugly saturated bright red or blue

One of mine stopped working as it was rusted or seized in the sheath. I found the crack, worked some PB blaster in it and pulled the ebrake a bunch of times till it freed itself. Might not be the issue, but figured I'd mention since you have cracks in the cable. It's definitely not a permanent fix b...

Hey Sveedy, Heres my headgasket thread from december, its rambling and i needed alot of assurance at that time but you might find some of the info i recieved to be helpful. https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=91809&hilit=headgasket I bought my headgasket and valve st...

1998 Volvo V70XC in Boulder, CO. Looks very similar to my 850 mechanically (I really want to test drive this thing...). https://boulder.craigslist.org/cto/d/boulder-1998-volvo-v70xc/7167097653.html If I weren't a student with an 850 that runs pretty well, I'd probably buy this right now and fix it ...

The king has spoken

Mine has 2 modes, winter mode and summer mode

So with summer almost over, do we have any final thoughts? Statistically there was alot of writing about how hot the used car market was and that prices went up. Especially after like May. Anecdotally I feel like I saw a decent amount of project cars for sale for a loss by the owner, but that might ...

Posting these here for future reference if anyone wants to see that it can be done. I should mention that I got very lucky in a couple of ways: 1. Abscate cut out good donor metal for me 2. A friend could lend me a welder 3. Another friend who does professional body work (on million dollar cars) gav...

I used an oil change and tire rotation to teach a friend's son some of the basics of owning your own car. He's 18 or 19 and a little timid but seemed really keen to learn more since I taught him to drive stick last week. Oil still had some reddish color after about 5k mostly highway miles, but I thi...