My seat skin swap was four hours of hard hand work , for reference.

My seats look just as bad. 200k miles in the Texas sun took care of that, and my propensity to wear jeans.

I did Blackstone on both my P2 and P80 Volvos this year. Mobil 1 with 7500 mile changes Both showed that I could go to 10-12000 miles on those cars with oil still In specs. I’m sticking with a once a year on the P2, and using that oil for make up with the T5, about 1 liter per 2000 miles. The T5 int...

10W-30 Mobil 1 HM in the T5

We rarely breach 90F here in upstate NY, and when I am in the city, I take the Volvo Train down the Hudson in the P-Amtrak model.

My parents impressed on me the importance of quality in rubbers: Shoes, Coats, Tires, ground sheets, Roof coverings, coolant hoses, and other products.

(cover your eyes June..)

If you eat too much while working on your Volvo, you can get Mann Boobs..

Don't use plastic ramps.

I built my own wood ramps, 3 layers of 2x10 wood. Bullet-proof.

WhatAmIDoing wrote: ↑13 Apr 2019, 11:45 I too think all the service literature should be made freely available.

Not free but you can still get it: Original Technical Publications 850 DVD
$57.50 at Original Technical Publications.

In North America it will say CEL which is Greek for check engine light. No foreign letters allowed on dashboards here, we build wa λ λ s to keep them out.

How much of a pain is rear shocks/struts on an AWD vs. a FWD? Believe it or not, the rear shocks are easier on AWD than FWD. The only thing you'll need to keep in mind is that the rear end needs to be raised up pretty high, as the shock goes through the lower control arm. Otherwise, it's just the t...

I think all turbos have the same CR? This is from my 99 HPT Specifications NOTE: Measure compression with the engine hot and at wide open throttle Normal value B5234T and B5254T: 1.1-1.3 MPa (156-185 psi) Maximum deviation between cylinders: 0.2 MPa (28.4 psi) NOTE: This applies when the engine is w...