A bit more spotting…

Installed the 42€ alternator today. Seems rather clean (donor car had 180 000km according to the listing), no more whine and charging at 13.95V.
Caliper rebuild kit and new handbrake cables are waiting for me at the post office, but that'll wait until i'm done building an exhaust for the subaru

I built up the patches from the back along with the nails to give it some strength

Here is the end result from the front. Not perfect but over all I am happy with the result.

That's exactly what it is! The old fuse is just pressed in and held by the friction and compression forces from the copper strips. Due to likely corrosion, the old PTC fuse will gain its high resistance value far too soon, which is why the failure mode is the wiper arm moving very slowly at first an...

I looked into this for the 850 series in 2020... don't know if the 1998 70 series is the same: https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=93975 According the the Haynes manual for the 850 (may be different than the 1998 S70), the coil primary should read between 0.5 to 1.5 Ohms and th...

Nice write up and I always appreciate it when folk take the time to share their success with us! I can't say that corrosion of the thermistor has ever been an issue that I have seen. It is just the resistance of the sandwich material between the plates that changes with time, just like rubber in tir...

i got it taken care of. I sprayed both with blaster last night and again today. I removed the calliper, bracket and rotor. Unfortunately there was nothing to grab on to, so I went the way of an easy out. When I drilled the first one, the bit caught and ended up screwing the remainign stud out the ba...

170 days since Val the Volvo was last run and with spring in the air and the weather a little warmer it's time to start getting her ready for the summer ahead. Today I started her for the first time since 19th September last year and she fired straight up. After a few seconds there was a little bit ...

Travelling last week in full Swede mode.


Thule on Thule on Volvo.

1700-ish miles w/o a hiccup.

Up and out the door early this morning to take Val the Volvo for an MOT and as expected she had a straight pass with no advisories