Thanks, Bill, for your comments. I will chalk up this incident to an older car "trying my patience", as you say. It has not recurred, thankfully. However, I would like to be as prepared as I reasonably can. For me, this means carrying parts that could possibly fail. I intend to obtain a ne...

Thanks, Bill for your comments. The air temperature was about 70 degrees. The engine had about three city-driving miles to warm up, so I would call that warm. Adding to my original write-up, I drove home about five additional miles that day, mostly at freeway speed, with no symptoms. Oh, and the gas...

I found Bill of Durham's write-up entitled "How to use the on board diagnostic (OBD) unit". When I tried to print, almost half of the first page printed and stopped. I tried again and the same thing happened. On the third try, I got a message the "the document cannot be printed",...

My Volvo is a 1991 with about 108,000 miles, automatic transmission, a/c, "red" engine, LH 2.4 fuel injection. Yesterday, while driving home from work late afternoon, in moderate traffic, I drove about three miles and then waited at a stoplight for about one minute. When the light turned g...