Wow...a steep, switchbacked road from a wide open dry Wyoming valley (like, 100 mile wide valley) up to 8000', where there's a vast plateau with lush moose-y marshes and forests of conifers and aspens. And a lake up on top. And an ancient Native American stone medicine wheel on top of a mountain. Be...

It will mount to an XC or V70, it was sold as an accessory available for order or sale at dealerships and came in tan or charcoal color. They are widely available in the auto wreckers here but I believe I looked and they are discontinued from Volvo now. I thought they were called dog grate or dog di...

volvolugnut wrote: ↑08 Aug 2025, 13:49 Photo of safety grill please.
I like addressed as volvorines.
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Photo not needed now. Somehow I was thinking of a front of radiator safety grill. Something to protect from deer impact.
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Rewarding to see all dashboard switches lighting up.

theres a junkyard called Kiesow just north of Hamburg with a number of v/xc70s

Brodie is just back from his first big trip in the car. We have our grandchildren from London staying for the summer so we all ventured up to the highlands for a family gathering at my daughter's house. Brodie hadn't really done any car travelling except for a couple of short journeys locally and th...

Helped my young friend with his 06 V50 T5 AWD manual a couple of days ago. He drives the car really hard so it needs fairly frequent attention as it is now nearing 200,000 miles. Lates issues were: 1) Leaking thermostat plastic housing. I believe it was the rear seal between the housing and the bloc...

Depends on the price, but should not be more than 6-7k i think( i am outtouch with reality, so might be more). On positive side it is 3.2 non turbo reliable engine with chain. On negative, it is 3.2 which consumes the same as 5.0 F150. I think older 3.2 and 3.0 were utilizing some weird water pump d...

“Past performance is indicative of future performance” etc so this thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87687 will likely predict many of the mechanical challenges that XC70 owner would face.

Tried a whole load of those reset procedures for the service message over time not realizing that most of them would not work for my car. I went to the last page of that thread found the one last one in the thread worked. I didn't do every one from back to front in the thread but after a bunch didn'...