PN 31439471 appears to supersede 30713305.

That stubby little hose piece seems to be used on a lot of turbo Volvos over a lot of years. It is the right one for both my '96 850 and also my '14 XC70.

VAST Tuning is your place.

I did a thread on repairing my glovebox kick panel. here is a follow on where I created my own ABS Slurry to repair a pillar trim: Please note the following: 1) You cannot use spare trim parts to create the slurry if they are stamped PC + ABS. That means is a mix of polycarbonate and ABS and wont di...

You could get FTDI part number US232R-100-BULK, cable assembly made by FTDI, directly from FTDI, or from a franchised distributor like Mouser or Digi-Key. Then, for the VAG KKL portion, you would add a VAG KKL cable with DB9 connector - no USB-serial bridge chip inside. Buying an "FTDI inside&q...

SATA and Tekton aren’t included here but it’s a good overview of the landscape of tool quality. From what I’ve read (Garage Journal and Reddit tool forums I don’t think I’d use SATA’s on my brake lines.

The $5000 s70 was a family owned low mile unit, Like 70k miles but, reserve not met. Foggy and I conspired to score KarlaKat from the MD AUCTION but I was 2k in for a Nautic blue s70 AWD with 105k , he put about 10 hours into it so I could drive it home from DC to NY. The first two fixes on that on...

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...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to call out a few things I encountered during my first P2 PCV replacement. Things that delayed the process by days and challenged my sanity at times. Apologies for any redundance - I did read quite a few threads on the topic and used several youtube videos as reference so ...

Hey, thanks for the update. Wow, that trim cleaner works well. I've heard of the Sonax brand and they made good products. Like that it is not silicon based. That old car is really starting to shine nicely after all the love spent on it. There will always be room for improvement until we can get to t...

$3.81 is a bit stiff for a small box of ziplock bags, but they look well-made. The black things are there to puff them up and make them look bigger.