If your current shocks are worn enough anything is going to make the car feel like a F1 car. The German made Sachs with silver stickers we get over here are OE spec or at least very close* and the ones I put on the car made it feel like new. Like new for these cars is not however anywhere near a sp...

The possibility for low quality components aside my car looked like the picture when I bought it and it had obviously survived 140 K km on the belt by then since Volvo last changed it. I wouldn't worry too much if everything else seems fine.

Seeing as this section mostly seems to hold road trips in North America it seems fitting to add a European road trip as well. This is from this summers vacation. Driving from Sweden down to the Mediterranean and the Alps. I'll be adding to it a bit at a time. I'll start off with two pictures of the ...

Preparation and departure: I started the holidays off by servicing the car. New oil, a new front brake caliper, an AC-checkup (600g out of 1000 left, it improved considerably) and a fire extinguisher in the boot. WP_20170617_15_06_10_Pro.jpg IMG_20170724_200128786.jpg After that it was time to load ...

It's possible to use the trip computer buttons to check every subsystem if there are any codes set. If yes then VIDA+DICE is the way to go when it comes to computer connectivity.

Since I had quite a lot of time to spare I made the ferry despite the accident. By ten in the evening it arrived in Rostock in northern Germany. IMG_20170727_214034172.jpg I got off the ferry and got ready to make the most of the autobahns absence of speed limits. However as soon as i reached about ...

The Alps are gorgeous. The nicest part required the most attention to the road however so only pictures of the still-pretty-nice-but-not-as-nice parts. I took a route through a corner of Austria, through Switzerland and over the San Benardino pass and down through Milano. IMG_20170728_085207208.jpg ...

Most people in Sweden who live where winter actually means winter buy the car with a engine heater installed from the factory. Are these the coolant warming heaters? I've found a video on internet. However this device only seems to me it fastens up a little the coolant warming by heating faster the...

Here you can see the motorway cutting through the landscape along the coast. A lot of it is on either bridges or in tunnels since it's quite hilly all the way down to the water. Must have been terribly expensive to build. Then you as a rule do pay a toll on Italian motorways in booths when you get o...

After a week of excellent Italian food and weather it was time to move on. This time from the coast and up into the Alps, more specifically the French town of Chamonix where I was to hook up with a few friends for a guided mountain biking tour. I drove inland by way of small roads. Using Google Maps...