Thank you for all the input Pete. I haven't had the misfortune of having the car in custody again to play with it, but it is now my belief that someone probably replaced cam seals due to leakage caused by the blocked PCV, and just bolted them back on without the tool or special procedure for the vvt...

Could you point me to where to look in VIDA and what values I should be expecting? I'm fairly new to the thing, actually bought it specifically for this turd lol, the other Volvo's in my life only get as far as angrily blinking the led in the engine bay.

Wonderful, I'd happily take a cam phaser even if the timing ends up being off, to have a spare for the future. I had done some reading, and everyone just mentioned swapping it due to noise so I had kind of ruled it out, also was hoping to rule it out because of how expensive the dang thing is from V...

Thank you all for your precious input. 2) Defective throttle body (Finally threw a code) I really hope it has nothing to do with that, I'll have to look up how to more thoroughly check this. I want to say it's not a vacuum leak after I molested repeatedly the whole area and replaced most of it. When...

The throttle body on the car has been replaced by Volvo in the past, it's the updated yellow label version, and seems to be working flawlessly with the VVT disconnected tbh. When looking at the value in VIDA, I didn't see any wonky behavior, from what I could tell anyway.

Hey guys, I have been dealing with an absolute nightmare of a car I suggested to a friend (and regretted it ever since), that has been tormenting me for six months. I am at my wits end and the only reason the car isn't on it's way to a junkyard is all the time and money invested in getting it runnin...