186 km per season!?

yeah, not fully ripped through, but one side was pulled off of the dust shield for both top and bottom tabs. not only are they a PITA to replace, but also 10x more expensive from Volvo than the fronts. also for my front brake job, i got a brand new front left dust cover replacement for ~$12 on FCP E...

finally replaced the parking brake hardware (PPS parking brake rebuild kit) + bosch quietcast rotors and pads. left side went well, but right side had a few things of note- the aligning springs that hold the brake shoes flush are holding onto damaged tabs. they havent come off in my use of my (now n...

repaired a slew of damaged LEDs on the DIM last night (see my other post for details), and FINALLY replaced the vanity mirror on the driver's side. this one had been bothering me since i bought the car. picked this up from the local volvo pit for ten bucks. 20250724_143620.jpg also saw this sweet Sa...

guess what: i soldered new LEDs to the board last night and they work perfectly. now that i have way more soldering experience (as an electronics repair tech), i tackled this one after sitting on the new LEDs i ordered off of Digikey since ~February. i opened the package and realized they were... WA...

yesterday i swapped out the center-driver air vent! gosh, this has been annoying me since i bought Pyxie. what I ended up doing was swapping JUST the strip with the aluminum center-piece and swapping it to my old vent housing, since the other ones on the spare i bought were all scratched up and myst...

went on Digikey and bought some components today: replacement Thermister which is the CCM cabin air temp. sensor, and a bunch of LEDs to test out on the DIM, since mine were scraped off by someone before I bought the car. Testing clear vs. diffused red and orange (not amber) LED chips to see which o...

7e30986c-d0b9-4144-aa6c-6a847d684e63.jpg yesterday i took apart my radio + ccm to fix two intermittent knobs: volume, and fan speed. volume never worked and fan speed tended to skip a tick or go backward a tick (relative to intended direction). job like this makes me very glad i have VIDA to clear ...

more updates: i've made a (mostly) comprehensive wiring diagram that depicts what everything goes to, especially for my situation; fitting Bi-Xenons on a car originally with halogens to allow for functional use of the low beams, hi beams, parking lights and turn indicators. The Active Bending Lights...

hey guys! success! i got the headlights to work with an LED light that fits the original D2R housing, without need for an electrical resistor, but I ironically ended up using it as a spacer between the LED fan and the spring clip that usually holds down the HID igniter. They are surprisingly snug wi...