Maybe look at the temp gauge needle, as the car is warming up, does the needle climb at a steady rate? Also inspect the wires to the coolant temp sensor, in particular right where they go into the electrical connector, sometimes they can crack at that point The old oil filter looks really clean. Per...

I should only take a few km to reach the top so it sounds like you have a thermostat that doesn't close

Nice find, that was a pretty creepy behavior. Perhaps when the car doors got closed/opened, the power to the homelink was going on/off having the stuck button operate the garage door

Lots of posts out there for these procedures, great that you're thinking about getting the car baselined, really a great mileage to do so on a 3.2 in my opinion. I use this thread- https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=64335 as a guide for replacing the gear and AOC/filte...

Time to pull a coil and then a spark plug. You will see if it is flooded by plug inspection and then you can put the plug in coil and set the thread end of plug o some bare metal of cylinder head and crank it over to see if you have spark. Fuel rail has a test port on passenger end but it is a femal...

but the only way I get vida to work is on a virtual machine within win10.

You can get it run directly in Windows 10, no VM required, better then on Window 7, read through this thread.

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