Yeah, that's an expensive flatbed trip! Needs a new control arm and axle on the passenger side.

My 1997 850 AWD with a 5-speed manual has had a little ball joint issue that is going to cost me $700-800 to fix. I like the car but have been lucky enough to be able to get in to a newer vehicle. I am considering selling it for scrap but that value is quite low and it seems like a waste of a mostly ...

Just to update and close the thread, the oil under the cap looked dirty but not milky like the oil in the dipstick tube. Finally managed to do an oil change today and the oil which came out of the motor looked well-used but no milky either. Looks like it was just the engine sweating and there is ...

Thanks for the replies! I'll get the oil changed and watch my coolant levels and check the quality rigorously to see if it comes back.

I'll need to check the cap when I can get the car somewhere dry but while certainly in need of changing I don't recall noticing extreme milkiness under the filler ...

My 1997 850 AWD has developed some pretty nasty looking chocolate-milky oil. I get some white smoke on start-up but once the engine is up to temp it goes away. I know these engines are prone to absorbing moisture in cold weather, and it's been cool and completely soggy for a month now. I was also ...

The other night I went to take my car somewhere and discovered that I couldn't defog the windows. After playing with the ECC settings I've found that I can't get the fan to work at any speeds. I can still hear the vents adjusting when I switch the defrost/face/feet dial and there is still heat which ...

That linkage looks a bit different than the one on mine, but the bits that broke are the pins/joints/rivets connecting the swiveling parts, like on the right side of the picture by where the shaft on the other poster's linkage broke. I'm guessing at this point I probably need to shell out for a new ...

So, for a while I've been having issues with my passenger-side wiper having some slop in it and either stopping on the windshield if it's too dry or banging on the dash if it's too slipper. I tried replacing the wiper arm and that seemed to help a bit but the problem was still there. The other day I ...

The passenger side wiper on my car is a little confused. Most of the time when I use the windshield wipers the passenger blade will stop higher then it's supposed to, partially blocking the view at the bottom of the windshield on that side, but every so often it will decide that it wants to be at ...

@Lee: The IPD stickers came with the boost gauge according to the previous owner, and they're roughly body colour too! It's too bad that their shipping to here is usually more than the products themselves :( I'll probably look at them more when it's time to do my ECU. I got a hold of a copy of VIDA ...