Figured that after doing some interior work, that the exterior needed something, like maybe a little color.
So 1/8" blue pinstripe seemed to fit the bill.

Has everyone heard the one about the Devil and the Engineer? Which one? This is the one that cracks me up. An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An newly annointed angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong pl...

my zips has been holding up for at least a couple of years. more like 3-4 I think. And I bought them at HF!

Sounds much like the electrical part of the ignition switch is going bad, which is very common. Basically all of the factory ones have failed or will soon. Test by jiggling the key or by easing the key back and forth, while idling. Has it ever been replaced? Did you grab one from the junker?

Update This is what a modern tech has to deal with these days.....customer brought car in said `` I just drove to the mall and suddenly the car ran poor and would barely move`` As I diagnosed it... It had spark on all cylinders and no inj pulse on 3 and 4...we changed PCM and dealer flashed it and t...

- I saw a sign by the protesters the other day in the news which read "Silence Is Violence". They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unio...

@abscate I very much appreciate postings like this and have tried to document similar information a few times myself so that others (and myself) can search it out in the database. What you've done with this o-ring info is actually quite a generous act, both in what you posted and in the other input ...

I am astonished at how easy it was once I knew where the boot separates. Never would have guessed. I just pulled up on the perimeter of the leather boot at each of the five slot locations. Here are some additional pictures I took - same setup as abscate's. View from left: handbrake-boot-left.jpg Vie...

if you find the adjuster doesn't give you the authority needed at the rear wheels, the cables are stretched, I snapped the adjuster in mine.
NOLA from volvo but IPD sells local made ones.

Anyone have a part to copy (reverse engineer)?

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