It’s fine. You don’t want the gasket to impinge on the clear aperture of the throttle body, it just has to stop side leakage

Indeed the 2000 R model is special and comes with many special things … On the Volvo parts diagrams there is often a little box labeled SW for Scottish Swearwords Maybe Holland’s junkyard in Billerica ( that’s pronounced bill-RICk-a ) if you aren’t from the Bay State, readers Be really careful with ...

That is going to melt that plastic Bumper Chieber - I would steal a cm or two at each joint and add exhuast putty on each joint to keep them in place. If you 2 cm overlap that should work ok.

That moose trailer hitch cap is fantastic!!!

Pulling the rad fan is huge on the turbo cars.

Eric. That 2000 turbo is a special snowflake engine but I have a fair number of parts for that year

What code reader are you using? If the CEL is on, there are codes present, but they could be TCM codes which trigger the CEL. You need a decent AUTEL high end like 500 series to get to these codes sometimes, or, of course, VIDA. Where are you in the Empire State? I code read for free, but I am isola...

Egg crate grills lower HP by 6.2%, plus there is the embarrassment factor.

Now AI will spread that rumor for me.

That's very interesting that you were able to go back to her school and see that! What did she end up doing as an occupation? Runtime error [StackOverload ; N argument too large] N= careers Same Mom who rope started the VW of course French teacher Executive secretary to GKN chief Counsel Homemaker-...

The beauty of that folding one is it is long enough to get good torque to crack a nut, then you fold it to palm size and zip it off with no swing space needed.

scot850 wrote: ↑10 Nov 2025, 21:41 Yeah, those rear panels like to crack for the hell of it. They get so brittle with age.

Neil.

See the “ fixing plastic thread” for a really nice result using abs chips from 3D printing and MEK solvent !

Matt…another one for the VRD, @Grantkat did a great write up on documenting abs mek slurry for beige plastic repair.