The ET or offset is the distance from the centerline of the wheel to the plane of the wheels mounting flange, which is also the plane of the hub mounting surface. A positive offset means the wheel centerline is located inboard of the hub. A negative offset number (rare except on race cars) means the...

The offset on the factory wheels is 50mm. You don't want to get too far away from that otherwise you run into problems with steering and suspension geometry and to a lesser extent clearance issues. The optimum offset is the one the Volvo engineers designed into the factory wheels........which is 50mm.

I finally got around to taking the heater core back out to replace the o-rings to solve the slow drip and found that I had overtightened the flange and flattened the o-rings when I replaced the heater core. When I looked into my coolant bottle after drying up all the drips that my hose-pinch pliers ...

matthew1 wrote: ↑31 Jan 2024, 17:00 Yea. Those are luxury steelies.

I think it's a Dasher. The headlights are throwing me off.

It's the European version- a VW Passat.

I just went through this myself. If that control arm mounting area to the subframe isn't bent, leave it alone. I nailed the curb so hard I bent the subframe and hand to replace it. In your case, even after replacing the front strut assembly, REPLACE THE KNUCKLE. Also! You're going to need to pull a ...

Special bushing press.jpg I used the washer from the first bushing and turned it upside down and glued some top strut nuts on it to make an installation tool and a bushing bolt to fully seat the bushing. This was necessary so that the force is distributed on the plastic frame of the bushing, not th...

Again. He was hospitalized briefly, back in Cincinnati now. If folks have a minute, stop over on his Y/T posting and wish him well.

A swedish coupe in Italy -

https://jalopnik.com/at-10-000-is-this- ... 1851220453

don't start it until you resolve the cam contradiction. if you can rotate by hand its fine. look at the cam lock tool, the locking notches are different, one sit high, the other sits lower. the cam lock tool should have the intake higher than the exh. its possible you're 180 out of sync. the noise i...

When I imported an 850 to the US for my niece from Canada, my brother had to get a letter from Volvo USA to say the car met the same specs as US cars for US and CA.

Neil.