Does anyone in the Hudson Valley or surrounding area need doors off a 97 nautic blue 850 with a tan interior? Or seats, interior trim, sedan rear speakers, gauge cluster with fixed odometer, 130k mile engine, intercooler, <2000 mile radiator? If you need anything, please send a DM before it goes to ...

Is there any workaround for discontinued part 9157320 and $100 part 9157321 for the AWD p80 rear suspensions? They're the bushings and support plates for the top of the nivomat shocks, and I fear that they may be going bad on my XC. I recently laid down the $600+ for new nivomats as I couldn't find...

Butchered the back thermostat T45 on Tosh , the 1998 s70 GLT. Sigh. Looks like PS and alternator have to come out to get that sucker off.maybe a fluted extractor will work. The 1999s give much better access. Did coolant and oil change , and upper rad hose. Slight seep on radiator so will have to wa...

I got the blue V70XC started after waffling on it for a year....and it's still making a horrific tapping sound, same as it was when I took the head off. I believed that was due to the RTV on the exhaust gaskets blowing out from a backfire, but maybe this car has a cracked exhaust manifold? Exhaust i...

And you are sure the parking brake cable is not binding? Neil. Yes, I was going to remove the brake shoes to test, but the wheel spins much more freely with the brake pads removed, no rubbing sounds, the rotor comes right off without a struggle, and no evidence of the parking brake shoes getting gl...

I didn't get anything done except figure out I have more work to do and my rear drivers wheel brakes are still dragging. Tried a caliper off the project car, new pads and rotors, swapped between brackets, used silicone grease, new brake soft line just in case the three year old ATE line somehow got ...

Ok so I looked further into this. It seems some awd rear caliper brackets leave more room on the outside between the brake rotor. I measured one at 10mm and the other at 11mm after removing rust scale and there's a visible difference after mounting them. My car came with the stamped steel dust cover...

AWD parking brakes are an issue if a) you never use them or service them b) the cables will fail near the pivot point on the rear axle near the springs (held in place with a 10mm headed nut). Done! Neil. I assume the parking brake was never used by the previous owner. The sheath is cracked and cabl...

Last night I took my rear brakes apart because of one side seeming to lock up, heat up, and producing a bad brake smell. I checked the pins, caliper and loosened the ebrake and took a test drive and everything seemed fine but today the issue came up again. I had akebono ceramic pads on the rear whic...

Started my car up and heard a very concerning loud thumping and became more concerned when I saw it was the timing belt cover looking like it was getting slapped by the belt and shaking around. Turns out a mouse had crawled into my timing belt area and became mulched and little mousey bits were stuc...