And like mecheng (post above mine) says, the thermostat cleaning took me a solid 2 hours. Brake clean - nope. Baking soda/vinegar - nope. Easy off - nope. Gunk grease remover - nope. WetandDry sandpaper (2000 grit) - nope. Finally gave in and got out the emery cloth and even then it took me an hour ...

LOL try working on a Japanese car, where every fifth fastener is like this. Only one (or granted, a few) in the whole engine bay? I concede that the oil cooler lines may be the most annoying job on the whole P80 car but overall I see great design engineering, I find working on the Volvos orders of m...

Nice work, good pics!

I find that a piece of 1/8" acrylic (plexiglas) ground to a knife edge works quite well and absolutely will not gouge the mating surface.

Excellent thread, one important point. You must read All the codes first before clearing the codes, it won’t work Otherwise. Good chance you have lots of lint on your temp sensors They are locked near the grab bars on the ceiling On the 850 not on the dash like the s70 My fan was spinning okay but t...

This may be too late to be useful, but after breaking my relay panel trying to change a relay (really, it just fell apart) I now know more about this process than I ever wanted to. There is an 'L' shaped white plastic panel (the fuse/relay panel) inside a black plastic housing which has a black plas...

Whenever I pick up Matt in the T5 I get a whining but I’ve figured out it comes from the passenger seat

Apparently design change in the front door handle, chassis numbers at bottom of pic

I had that pressure hose pop off at the intercooler side once. Barely made it to the next turnout before the car stalled.

I use ramps under the front wheels to torque the control arms. Gives enough room to get in there even for an old fat guy!

Happier New Year to all out there!

Neil.