From doing this type of repair everyday, my first suggestion is one that may suprise you but has saved me a lot of labor. Unless you bought a new alternator from Volvo, remove it and take it to a knowledgeable electric repair shop in your area and have them test it under load to completely remove it...

Thanks for all the inputs. I checked the computers coolant temp sensor and sure enough it had infinite resistance. From 25 years of experience as an aviation electronics tech on naval aircraft, I also tested the continuity of both wires coming out of the sensor and were good. I replaced the sensor, ...

Thanks, Neal, believe it or not I did try a new coil (their not cheap) and it worked for a few starts and went back to the old problem. My customer is supposed to return on tuesday and I will see then if the computer's temp sensor ( at the computer) has the correct value. I subscribe to ALLDATA and ...

Thanks for both inputs, to both A. Baker and Volvord, I will try all of your suggestions and let the website. There seems to be more cars out there with very similar problems. Thanks again. Gary L. Cook CAMM

Connelly, the leather company that provides the seats for Rolls has a "hide food" that really helps. You should be able to get this on the internet.

Good spark, good signal to the injectors. Strong gas smell, rich looking exhaust pipe. Cold engine starts normally, hot(20+miles) intermittnet start. If the engine catches the first time then it starts normally, it not then it takes 15-20 of running the starter and partial gas feed, if I'm lucky it ...