Hey hey!

Found one at a local yard, $125
Not a pick and pull this...but at least they got the whole assy


Gonna make a few more calls, and then pull the trigger

Al
Al

This Beetle has clearly been parked in that spot for a LONG time. Spotted in Pepperell, MA.

abscate wrote: ↑22 Sep 2022, 04:58

scot850 wrote: ↑13 Sep 2022, 19:29 Do they not sell polish in Seattle. Feel sorry for the old car that the owner appears not to care.

Neil.

You can’t sell people in the US any more. We had a war about that.

Wait, if corporations are people, aren’t mergers slavery?

He was talking about sausage, duh!

Discovered the PTC heater wiring leads have exposed wires & corrosion right at the connector. You can better see this in the photo after I cut the connector off the main harness. I suspect this was causing a short, and shares a common ground w/ the ETM, and common power to the TCV. Since the cor...

"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!!"

Changed alternator yesterday, today I will just leave them stay in the shade…….

abscate wrote: ↑24 Sep 2022, 23:55 I never trust the text code descriptions on scanners if it isn’t Volvo software. I don’t think rear wheel sensor play into VSS.

VST is Volvo own tool pre-vida, unobtainium stuff nowadays

It's good timing that this topic got a post after nine months because the powder coating on my calipers was just completed! They sat for six months at a powder coating shop which couldn't do them so I picked them up. Then I got too busy to find a new shop. I finally found a great shop an hour away, ...

I don’t know why abscate keeps telling us to replace pinch bolts. I think it’s fake news, hogwash…..

Weird noise from lower suspension while moving the car off the driveway. Kind of a knocking noise. Wife returns later from shopping and brings me a nut with a short piece of broken bolt in the nut. WOW! This was from a broken lower control arm bolt. The long part of the bolt fell out and was missing...