My daughter's 850 wagon sat for a while, and the battery was dead. I jumped it fine. Ran a mile. It died. I jumped it fine again. It died again. I think it was simply really dead. So I went to jump it again, and then planned on letting it idle for an hour. This time, however, I jumped it from my son...

the corner blinker assembly on my daughter's 850 wagon just fell out the other day. It was dangling from the car. She duct taped it back in. The little black plastic tab that engages the spring has sheared off. Ideas? I'm guessing 18 years of heat/wear and tear caused it to fail. Thanks! Rick

I cranked it up with the a/c running and let it run for at least 45 minutes in my driveway. It was at least 85 degrees outside. For about 30 minutes the coolant level stayed the same. Then it slowly began to rise. Over 15 minutes (or longer) it slowly rose to the top of the reservoir. It seemed to h...

I replaced my heater core 12 months ago. I doubt that's it. No white smoke out of exhaust that I'm aware of. But I am throwing a p0303 code. I changed my distributor cap and rotor (they were bad), but I'm stilling throwing it. Also, occasionally at cold start it shutters (I know my SAS/airpump aren'...

by "compression" do you mean testing each cylinder for compression? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. thanks. Rick

My daughter's 850 loses about a reservoir of coolant every couple of weeks. I've looked everywhere; no trace. So today I let it run for 30 minutes in my driveway. The fan was running. It was at full operating temperature. No sign of coolant anywhere. So I drove it a few miles, and watched it some mo...

I have fought with my daughter's PO401 code. I tried the VW air pump trick. Also replaced the SAS valve. I found all sorts of bad tubing and replaced it. But to no avail. I am close to trying the Radio Shack diode trick, but ... Recently a slight (but clearly noticeable) gas smell is in the car, eno...

I think i've found the flame trap. And if I did, it is solidly plugged. I removed the 1 1/4? inch plastic piece from the rear of the 4 inch line. the O ring came off. is the plastic piece that is connected to the hose that runs back under the intake manifold supposed to be open? Mine is hardened ful...

my daughter's 850 wagon is leaking a lot of oil from the bottom of the engine, driver's side. it is all over the cross member, and has soaked the driver's side most of the way back to the rear of the car. She lost 1.5 quarts since I did the last oil change at 2,200 miles. so i read around the site. ...

thanks, Lee. You gave me just the info I needed. Once I got in behind the glove box I realized that speeds 1-3 didn't work at all. I switched out the relays, just to be sure, and that didn't help. So I pulled the resistor, went to Radio Shack and bought the .99 thermal fuse, and then got my neighbor...