I'm on my third turbo Volvo wagon. The first one (1984) was the only one that had turbo problems, but it did not come with water cooling to the turbo housing. The 1994 and the 2004 have been mostly trouble free, smooth, and torquey. Great highway distance cars. Naturally aspirated means an engine th...

Got your PM - Blacklab’s photo is describing the “plan view” of the shape, or you could say the X-Y dimensions. You seem to be saying there is a gap in the Z direction, or up and down. The block and pan surfaces should be flat flat…like steel straight edge flat. There should be no up-down gap in the...

precision guesswork is a brilliant name.

Get down there and get these, someone! Nice Michelins! With covers! You can barely buy one tire for $120.

Drive out there in your 240 before it snows, toss them in the back, head home! Easy peasy.

The HiTrac. The reviews and performance sounded better than the other Vred.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/vredeste ... all-season

Did they take you just showing up? The dealership near me will not taker anything without an appointment. Since you're doing it for angle gear and Haldex, maybe also change the rear differential gear oil this time around? :) No, we had an appointment several weeks out. It’s a Volvo VW Kia Honda dea...

Back from an 1850 mile roundtrip in Betty the black Volvo. She never missed a beat, smooth and quiet (except for the big Wyoming headwinds). A lot of hours of fast driving - it's weird to say to yourself "Oh, I should back off and slow down to 80." I passed a WY highway patrol Explorer goi...

Good one! 500,000 km is up there, nice job.

It's an Aston Martin Rapide S. Very elegant, very expensive, and I don't think they made many.