Insides are often a mess as everyone thinks the parking brakes are fit and forget. They need to be cleaned and services annually if you do lots of miles. The 'mess' is if the parking brake cables are seized or broken at the mounting point on the rear shock lower bracket. With the rear brakes in bits...

Climate control changes

In late 1998 the damper and temp control modules were replaced by a single motor (9134729)doing both functions on the driver side. This was used 1999-2000 then replaced on P2

Edited to 1999-00

Valve stem diameter changes at some point during the 1999 MY, from 7mm to 6mm. This probably accompanies the change in lifters.

There are mid year changes, including:

Mid 1999 change to a single motor for blend and direction on ECC

Parking brake shoe size I believe this is fake news...

I've seen an early 1999 with the reservoir style PS pump

Just to close the loop on this: Please note I have done this with the NORMAL V70 rear seat. NOT THE ONES WITH BUILT-IN BOOSTER. (My 98 V70 has V70R seats. So no booster. And I finally found a set of V70 seats with the built-in booster in oak/charcoal and I have not had to take that apart). 1) unscre...

I can't believe I am the only one driving a 20-yr old car who's trying to pin point noises... :lol: (Though, maybe I am!) I was thinking this would be a good place to organize and collect known noises and their respective corrections. Of course, trying to pinpoint noises I imagine can be like fallin...

This (stuck or damaged rings) is what misha and trying be were pointing to, a stuck ring on cylinder 5. The piston rings sit in the groove around the top of the piston, there is no bonding of any kind. Imagine stretching the piston ring open where it is cut, and snapping it into place on the piston....

Thanks for the additional input. The shop called today and said a stuck fuel injector is to blame. Simply replacing that cylinder's injector will resolve the problem. I'm not sure how they determined this. They said that immediately after driving, removing the spark plug revealed that the top of the...

Today, I opened the hood, stared at the misfiring engine for a few minutes, thought about swapping things around to see if the problem stayed in cyl 5 or travelled, and closed it again. Major case of the fuggits. Been there! That was me with the turbo replacement on my old 2001 Saab 9-5. It only to...

The Falcon sprung a misfire after running fine all year and then not driven for about a month, now when started it's running "something is very wrong" rough, to the point it's not drivable. Codes only indicate cylinder 5 misfire. Haven't poked at it yet; thanks for this thread, do please ...