He said something about that but said he hasn't taken one off before. What's the tool?

Just bought a used 01 V70 T5 wagon (with the third row seat) as a replacement for the old 97 850 wagon that never worked reliably. Bought this one from a mechanic who likes working on volvos and took the 850 off our hands also as partial trade. Well, now that the temperature has dropped here in MN j...

In the meantime before doing anything else, I fully charged the battery up and tried to start. Two key findings here are 1) the fuel pump engages when I turn the key, 2) the engine did start, but then cut out after 30 seconds. Started again and cut out sooner and got harder to start again. I have mo...

Not sure if you have found your answer yet or not... I haven't been doing this for long, but the IAC valve running after trying to start the car was a pretty big symptom for me. The local volvo specialist told me that things like that may still be running if there isn't enough power getting to the s...

Thanks for the honest opinion about the mechanic. Yeah I tried to get him to make up for his horrible oversights and expensive "troubleshooting" by doing some simple stuff on my minivan, but he refused to be reasonable. Well I won't go with the "cheap" alternative again. We have ...

OK I got a replacement for the electronic part of the ignition switch and I used the post copied below to replace it. I am getting no different response when I try to start it. Are you sure I needed to spend that $35 to replace it anyways, because I can send it back? The ABS module wouldn't be causi...

OK so my ’97 Volvo 850 wagon has been intermittently (almost half the time) not starting for the past year+. I bought it last spring with ~200k miles on the odometer, which usually doesn’t work (along with the speedometer). I had it checked out by a good reputation volvo specialty shop to be confide...

OK, yep. ECU didn't make a difference (and the one I got which is suppose to be for this engine didn't even match what was already in there), but bypassing the ignition switch-to-fuse box-to-ignition coil circuitry got it started and everything working. So yeah, the fuel pump relay had nothing to do...

What other symptoms are seen if the fuel pump relay is causing the vehicle to not start? Will it prevent the ECU from activating the electric distribution system? I just want to check if the fuel pump relay is a likely cause before ordering and waiting for a fuel pump relay, or trying to repair the ...