These relays don't plug in the side of the CEM like older P2 Volvos 2004 and earlier. From 2005+ they're internal soldered to the circuit board. A new CEM is way more than $400, most people would opt to send the one they have away to be rebuilt. There's vehicle specific programming involved so you c...

Throttle is electronic-drive by wire on this year/model. Vibration you're feeling in the pedal would be coming through what it's attached to: the firewall. So an attempt to make it better (?) would probably involve looking at anything that would transfer engine vibrations into that area: rear subfra...

I was thinking the high temperature indication could be due to contact resistance in the electrical connectors. Resistance in the wiring would add to the PTC resistor/sensor giving an artificially high temperature reading. Together with the time of year (winter salt spray in the engine compartment s...

Stay away from that shop, they ripped you off BIG time. For the 6-cyl engine, even 6 spark plugs and 6 coils do NOT cost more than $300! For example (rmeuropean.com): - Volvo Ignition Coil $70/each. - Bremi Ignition Coil $36/each. You need to find an independent and honest shop that knows something...

There's a clear silicone pad that sits on the face of the sensor between it and the glass. The pad likes to stick to the original windscreen. As a result it tends to rip/tear when removed and if reinstalled on the new windscreen like that the system will not work well. Seems many installers don't re...

I'm pretty sure MVS is where I first heard about FCP also. I'm not sure the click through the link 'procedure' is the best way to approach this. But I'm at a loss for any other way to do it. FCP doesn't have a 'where did your hear about us' field during checkout that I've ever noticed. I can't say h...

The sound occurs only on hard breaking, hard reverse, and near maximum steering on occasion. In order of likelihood that's probably.. 1) upper strut mount/bearing 2) the upper spring seat 3) You reused the large strut to knuckle bolts, either they're not torqued tight enough or they're stretched an...

Dell M4600/M4700 & M6700 M6800 mobile workstations (fancy name for a high spec durable build laptop). Seems to be a flood of these coming off lease to the used/refurbished market driving the resale prices down at the moment. Just set up two friends with examples of these, one friend got a M4700 ...

You know, those cases where voltage arcs between a couple of the pins at the TCM connector disrupting CAN communication.. Those pins are are separated by a couple millimeters. The voltage potential to arc across that distance is way higher, by a factor of hundreds or maybe even thousands, than would...

Mercedes Claims It's CLA Is The Worlds Most Aerodynamic Production Car Plugging some numbers into ecomodder.com, even with standard tires and engine efficiency tweaked the 'low side' etc, the FWD equipped CLAs running on gasoline are likely to achieve real word highway econ on flat terrain approach...