Bad News Update - Thanks for all the help rmorse! The #39 Circuit Breaker under the Fuse box cover was empty as you pointed out so I swapped in the 20A one from the #37 slot and hooked up the seat again. Dead - Nothing. My friend let me bring my junkyard seat over and swap it out with his power seat...

I got a nice power memory Driver's seat out of a junk yard 99XC V70 and tried installing it in my plain Jane 99 V70 5 speed with manual seats. All the clips are on the wiring harness under the seat so that step was easy BUT the seat doesn't work. Tried the controller in my friend's 98 V70 and it wor...

Well I did a test with a multimeter - put the positive probe in the female spade connector on the green/red wire that connects to the male spade terminal on the solenoid and hooked the black probe to the engine block, set the MM to DCV 20 - turned the key and the meter reads "o.oo". It app...

You need to get onto the service starter connector with a voltmeter and see what you read for voltage between it and chassis ground when you try to start the car. If the '99 is like the older versions the connector pops out of the main wiring harness with a female spade connector and it has a Green...

Thanks for your help. My car is a manual.

Last Friday morning I went out to start my 99 V70 Manual, 2.4, No Turbo, Black, Grey Vinyl Plain Jane - turned the key, starter turned, engine fired a couple of times and went quickly dead. After that turning the key resulted in a quiet click and buzz - no starter turning, dashboard lights up when t...