The car has 115 K on this tranny...That's pretty decent on ANY make or model...

I'll try that tomorrow...Thanks...However, that won't fix her V-70 with the dead readout and we will have to investigate further...

From what I understand from the nephew, the A/C cut out at exactly the same temperature readout every time, regardless the lenghth of time it was running...That seems ...

My brother (now deceased) bought this car on e-bay and we argued about that, generating a lot of hard feelings...The car was a dog from the git-go and I told him so...

His son (my nephew) tells me the A/C never worked right, cutting out when the outside temperature reached some now unknown point ...

Thank you for the condolences...

We have been down this road before, and one thing is sure, the sensor for the in-dash temperature and the ice warning is NOT in the side view mirror, it is somewhrere up front and down low to sense road icing...When he was alive, my brother took a heat gun and ...

My brother passed away and his widow has his 2001 V-70...The in-dash read-out for outside temperature is not working...Can anyone tell me where the temperature probe is?...

Orifice tube/accumulator in the 850...The S60 does not have an orifice tube, it has txv...

I have never replaced the evaporator in an S60 (they didn't make cross-flow 'way back when I was in the business) but in the diagrams the S60 evaporator looks to be vertical, not cross-flow...The man said the debris was non-metallic...

Your instincts are correct, a non-leaking condenser does not need replacing...You are also right in assuming that the txv trapped the debris in it's screen and most likely none got into the condenser...I think the debris came from the original damaged compressor...Piston ring and seal material will ...

Black light sources for leak detection are available from www.blacklight.com
One is a CFL for less than $8 and another is a minature LED flashlight for less than $20...

The problem here is that since the dye is all over the bottom of the car, it will be hard to pin-point the source of the leak ...

My guess is that the cap was added to remove radio noise...That's an old school, pre-electronic ignition, breaker point system fix...I cannot imagine it intensifying spark, I would think it would have the opposite effect due to creating a delay in coil saturation while the cap charges up...I do not ...