Oh the pics were from the car yard where the car was towed when I was salvaging what stuff I could out of the wreckage (thankfully was mostly sheltered in the trunk). Hence the duffel bag seen in another pic and well....my shoe.

I hear people making fun of the older Volvo's at times. At yet I experienced direct proof of the safety reliability of these vehicles first hand this past Monday.....

Pardon my crude description but maybe it will give you some sort of a visual on how this well built vehicle saved my life.

Was ...

Yeah, I looked in my Haynes manual and it seems pretty basic to remove/refit (as in there doesn't look to be any special adjustments that need to be made and whatnot), so I'll probably have my bf do that when he gets the chance. Hopefully cleaning it and the contacts will do the trick. *fingers ...

I swear I feel like I'm coming back here every other week because of some issue with my car!!!

Anyway, my car won't start (I know, I know, join the club, right?) and when I ran the diagnostic code tests on it, the fuel system came up clear and I got a 3-1-4 code with the ignition system test ...

Cool, thanks for the feedback. If I can get my friends to do this for me, that's going to be so helpful.

So since you lot here seem to have a much better clue then I do, if I was to take this into a mechanic or :shock: god forbid a dealer, any ballpark estimates on what it would cost me? This is of ...

I know for sure that upon my last maintence check, my CV boots were both ripped, meaning by now, the joints are destroyed more or less. Since it would be probably the smartest thing to just replace the entire front drive axle assembly (bear with me, I know practically nothing about car parts/terms ...

Damn, all that for only 130,000 miles??? I must be lucking out with my '93 then

And I can definitely say that the only reason I drive a volvo is because my dad got his G35 and the 850 got demoted

My service light is coming on everytime I turn on the car and it goes off after about a couple minutes or so. Any particular reason why? I have a '93 850GLT with just over 200K on it. The last time it went in for major service was last June and everything had checked out fine. I didn't think I ...