Funny, people complained about American Land Yachts of the 60's and 70's - big bloated heavy long cars and wagons. Tons of room for families and vacations. Almost always big or excessively big engines, an offshoot of the muscle car era to make them more palatable to macho buyers. That era passed lon...

I was able to solve the problem and add the video hopefully can help other people. After replacing the seats I had the light on for the SRS, I have Vida but wasn't able to reset the lights. So I bought a icarsoft I906 for Saab and Volvo and it was very easy and quick, sorry for the video quality and...

Yes...but for cars with chipped keys.
U.S .market started in '99 while EU market cars had chipped keys from '96.

So moral of the story-electronic parts from PPS are junk that were costing you at least 10 hours and a full "swear jar". It is quite possible. However, I cannot rule out some minimal mistiming. I also had a bad experience no far ago with the VVT solenoid. I replace the failing one with a ...

Compression test won’t tell you if it’s a bad head gasket necessarily, but if it’s good then valves are in good shape. With an unknown engine there is not really a good path other than running it for a bit then pulling plugs and look for steam cleaning

coil is failing under load, swap #3 around and see if the fault follows the coil.

Seat Side- Seatbelt XC90_1.jpg Body Side- Seatbelt XC90_2.jpg Cover comes off with a Torx T15, if it's original you'll need to cut a tie-wrap on the seat. These break all the time, progressive flex crack as your butt slides onto and off the seat. Can see here for PNs if you need a replacement- https...

Tldr: engine surging on idle and hissing near intake manifold Any ideas for temporary way to improve pcv function Codes: P0128 P0101 P1332 P0447 So I went and bought this car off cl for $600. It's in decent shape I think, aside from some engine issue and common front end stuff. 179xxx mi Engine pro...

Heres how it went for me, I figured its a 90 minute job. Jack the car up, forgot to break the lug bolts loose, lower the car again, got the bolts loose, jack the car up, place on jackstands, the wheel won't come off. Lower the car again and put the lugs in finger tight, drive the car back and forth...

Strut bearing would be my bet. Great photo on alignment procedure. Fcp euro has a detailed video on similar job but on xc60 in case you need reference. Sorry for your time. Hope it will reward you with another 190k of noise free miles. P.S. extra respect for a nice coat of fluid film Hey , thanks f...