Remember the forums when you're buying your kid their first car! Volvos make the best starter car, reliable, durable and easy to work on, not to mention stylish and classy My girls all knew they could have what ever colour Volvo they wanted , In Nautic Blue Metallic Pearl Abscate, the Henry Ford of...

I honestly think that are production inaccuracies. After all those years all brake calipers are well used, and even refurbished ones use the old casting. That is, what I believe, the reason for thw clunking. 2 years later my front brakes still clunk but that has not been a safety issue so far. I sta...

I can't comment on any of the two brands, bit since this is not a safery relevant nor really hard to replace part going cheap might work. but then, why do it twice if you can get a known quality part for a few bucks more only ... So I'd personally go with Stabilus

Good point. My bigger concern is not having to do this again in my ownership! With plastics getting so brittle and hard to find in good condition I'd rather not so it over too soon. In fact not looking forward to doing it all! Actually swapping the struts is easy. Removing all the plastic to get to...

Won't hurt to clean it up and check again but your evidence is pretty compelling - it's definitely the turbo oil return drain line seal. Sounds like if you get it into boost just a couple times and take it home to check, you will probably see the leak already. There is also a paper seal on the top,...

abscate wrote: ↑11 Nov 2021, 15:17 Of course. If you fit ps last you have to stretch past both the pulley lip and the depth of the ribs. MAybe I should look up the actual procedure

No, don't refer to the manual. The noble manly way is to fight till the end. For no reason whatsoever.

Fascinating thread ... Reminds me of that movie Lost in Translation.

Sorry, dude, my mistake. yeah, that sucks...

I think that bolt on top is the one that fastens the lower timing belt splash plate under the crank pulley. If it is, keep it in honor, that bolt is NLA

Just an uneducated guess, but I think you should be good with a few slow compressions. The amount of movement over time will definitely equal more than 3 full compressions.