Thanks for the thought! I'm well able to keep the car going, being a decent shade-tree mechanic for 50 years or so. I just don't want to be bothered! I'm too old for this. If I had a garage with a hoist, maybe a different story. If I had a garage at all, maybe. But since I only have a driveway ... A...

Yeah, I over-simplified, it is up to $6K towards an EV. But with gas for the turbo at close to two bucks a liter, our next purchase will certainly be an EV. So it's kinda the same thing. Note that for the folks outside of B.C., there are other requirements that limit the money to us locals. (Sorry l...

No no no. The windshield washer is now fine. But I'm starting to make little repairs all the time, and it's becoming annoying laying on my cold and wet concrete driveway to fix things. When that starts to happen too frequently, I get rid of the car. I got rid of a 245 when this started to happen at ...

Thanks for the time to reply! And for the pics! Sadly, your pics do not match mine .. exactly .. but they're close enough to be confusing. First, there is no T connector going to the right side of the pump, just a single hose. This supplies water to the windshield washers. The car does have headligh...

My wife complained that her windshield washers didn't work on her 2005 V70. Upon filling the reservoir with fluid, most (all) just ran away. I crawled under the car and saw three hoses running down the backside of the reservoir, neatly held in place by "clips" on the reservoir. Two went to...

Thanks to all who replied! I didn't start the car .. I'm dumb but not THAT dumb. The worry was not the solvent, exactly, but what was IN the solvent, which in this case was fine fine dirt .. almost sand, but finer. I'm not at all sure where it came from, but clearly the solvent was used it to clean ...

So, I was about to head out to the inlaws for Christmas dinner. It was a bit of a trip, so I did my usual inspection; tire pressure, fluids, etc. Oil was about a litre low, so out to the shop and there was an opened 5 litre jug of oil, with about a litre of oil in it! Beauty! I started to pour and s...

2005 V70 T5 136k kms. I punched it a wee bit going up a hill yesterday. The car hesitated twice .. clunk clunk .. almost like an engine cutout, then ran up the hill same as normal. At the top of the hill though, it started to run REALLY rough, with no power at all, and no ability to accelerate at al...

Two questions, if I may. 1. Is it completely necessary to disconnect the battery or is this just "good practise"? (I'm worried about the code to re-enable the radio) 2. Can the car be started and driven without the alarm module? The lights and noise is getting VERY annoying and it could be...