Wipe insides of lower air vents on both sides with your finger. They get greasy the first thing when heater core starts showing age.

Small update: the DIN-jack adapter I bought sadly does not fit the DIN connector at the amplifier, so could not test it that way. But I did check the following: At the amplifier end of the DIN cable I could only measure voltage at the central pin, which according to the image I included in my initia...

If you could check your fuel pressure before cycling and then after cycling then we should be able to confirm it. AFAIK it should be around 400kpa-480kpa from what i recall. I can, I have this: https://github.com/vtl/volvo-ddd The odd behaviour is that the car can catch for one rev, stumble, then g...

Okay; I raided an '06 S80 2.5T for some parts today at the U-Pull. First of all; I pulled a clearly aftermarket MAF and housing off the car and put it on my XC70. The housing that was on the car was even more clogged than it had appeared when I first looked at it in the airbox, it had dead bugs and ...

volvolugnut wrote: ↑14 Dec 2023, 17:20

swatik wrote: ↑14 Dec 2023, 00:01 Fixed. Car is up and running.

Great. But what did you do to fix it?
volvolugnut

I bought used TBU on eBay but it also turned out bad. Then I just part out both units and assembled 1 with the best looking parts.

For those of you wanting to repair ABS parts here is an easy cheap way to do it. I am always researching things like this, trying to learn new ideas and techniques. I did some research on ABS. I have a 99 S70 GLT and several ABX parts have been cracked or broken altogether. I would not recommend thi...

I will also add this note: you can make your own ABS cement by taking pieces of ABS and mixing them with MEK. this would be particularly advantageous for color matching your fixes. In my case my interior is beige and I have cracked beige pieces. I will keep an eye out for a similar interior color in...

How much do you want to know about how a brushless DC motor controller works? I am going to explain what I can but before you read all of that the most likely cause of the problem is not the water pump but something external For example - faulty wiring or intermittent power can cause the circuit to ...

https://thosbryant.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/1999-volvo-v70-s70-passenger-airbag-removal/ I had the SRS lights on from the time I bought my car for whatever reason and two indie shops said it was an issue not in their repertoire. Saw somewhere here I believe that by disconnecting and reconnecting tho...

My brother and I