Volvo Forum + help for owners

Put my car through its MOT today, which it passed with no advisories. The tester even offered to buy it off me for what equates to roughly triple my purchase price. Tempting, certainly, but I'm not finished with it yet.

Don't call me Shirely.

Please tell me the cooper union is actually about coopers? Thats a dying art.

I thought the foam bases were different, but I'm pleased to learn otherwise. It should make sourcing better condition foam bases easier. Good news for 850 owners too, with regards to the backs being the same.

For some odd reason I always thought the C70 skins weren't compatible. Huh.

Mmm, satellites. Wish we got those in the UK. Just figured out you were coveting our T4 wheels? Blimey, my bad, I should have qualified that. The black V70 posted by S60UT is on Satellite wheels (I believe), a rim that was not available in the UK. It's a lovely design, a smaller more tasteful Titan...

The good part is the ECC's can usually be found on ebay for $40-80 =) In the UK ECC is incredibly rare, it was an option on top spec CD models - and not a popular option at all. I've only ever seen one breaker car with ECC in 3 years and they are non-existent on UK sites. Of course they can be ship...

Smashing, thanks.

I'm eyeing up adding poly inserts into my subframe bushings, so I'm wondering if there are any tips about their removal? I'm also wondering if anyone knows what the thread pitch, length, and hardness is of the bolts? Volvo wants circa £11 a bolt plus 4-8 week lead time. I replaced the boot struts to...