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Always great when you can buy a car with a $50 bill!

In your opinion better to stick with lower calcium oils in our higher mileage 5 cylinders? In my opinion I threw out hundreds of dollars on boutique oils ;) I took apart another 2.5T engine, from a road worthy car with similar mileage, it had three times the wear compared to my engine, but it was s...

From 2:00 on that feels like some of my car repairs this year

VIDA and a DICE will do this. A number of years ago I did not wait long enough after shutting the vehicle down before disconnecting the battery and somehow came up with an invalid sum value in the yaw sensor which required a recalibration. I did this successfully using my own VIDA and DICE. Per VIDA...

Merry Christmas, everyone. Thanks for being here and sharing so much about your Volvos, and in many cases, your lives.

Problem with the 2.5T is that it stops being produced in the US after MY06. MY05-11 is V8, otherwise your only "standard" choice starting MY07 is the 3.2 I6. I lament the fact that the 5 cylinder powerplant continued to be produced for the rest of the world until Swedish production stopped...

All good points, Krons; we drive a 2013A 3.2 Premier and it runs quieter. Third row seats and it flattens to awesome space behind the front seats. I love that the Service Schedule II is clearly spelled out in VIDA. It is an easier engine space to work on; and fewer items than 2.5. Here is my progres...

Taking this " sci-fi " thread a little further - We all end up in self-driving cars, that are all made by the same manufacture, that never go faster than what some bureaucratic entity decides is appropriate, and can be effectively seized by the " authorities " for violations. But...

There is a video by Robert DIY on how to do this

Ooof. Inundated with banner ads in every post. It’s creepy how they follow your content reading. Next time I meet someone working for google I’m going to follow them from a one foot distance looking over their shoulder, then ask them how they like that.