If the pump motor for the windshield washers runs and no water comes out, it could be clogged or frozen lines or dirty nozzle tips on the hood. There is another option. At several point on the waters way to the nozzles it passes through small 'T' plastic valves. Inside them there is a little rubber ...

Gve the nozzles a good clean or upgrade to those from a P2 Volvo from 2001- for better spray pattern. I think you may find it is one of the valves is bad and so you are loosing pressure. Does your car have headlight washers? Check they are not leaking from their pipework too as it will reduce the pr...

Missed my 10 year MVS anniversary last week. Generally I won’t join any club that will have me as a member.

As long as the glove is an inny instead of an outy all is well.

* All Volvo hinges seems to be of the same design. Adjustments are made on the hinges and striker only. Make sure the door hinges are not worn and the door has no movement. See the first 3 minutes of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfnhy0nCaRA * Make sure the car chassis is on level grou...

This is probably a better question for the Swedespeed forum (don't hate me Matt). I don't hate you, WhatAmIDoing. But I want to make the point if we send users to SS, it'll never be a question for MVS, so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we talk about it here, or at least put down our find...

Check the short cable between the large cylinder and small one on the starter. It corrodes and breaks. Terrible design to leave a weak spot like that when everything else seems solid.

eeuroparts bites since they got bought out. They got bought by a mega auto parts online organization. I kept up some communication with one of them, a VP level person (maybe? I forget...) or somesuch, after the buy-out. I got the feeling they were not all-in on understanding the nuances of Volvo pa...

Well done, squeezing every bit of service life out of those. That’s Extreme run to fail model !



Neil and I are with envy

The longblocks should be the same, between 98 and 94. Both are 2.3T N motors.

Just bolt all of your 98 ancillary parts onto the 94 longblock and go.