Week end project: Rear shocks replacement. 97 855 turbo AWD with Nivomat shocks. Any last minute advice?

Hugo

PS: I'll try to take pictures, stay tuned.

I'll go with Black850 and suggest checking the engine mounts. I just had my engine uppper mount replaced on my 855 (275 000 km and counting) and the improvement has been fantastic. Before, my engine would sound like a truck sitting at idle and during accelerations, now it sounds like, well like a sw...

Quebec here, in a 97 turbo 855 with a stick. I would not trade it.

Bonjour people, My rear suspension is dead (1997 855 turbo AWD). While doing research on the subject I found this french forum with a great presentation of the subject. Of course, it's in french... but I thought the pictures might be of interest: http://www.volvoforlife-fr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...

Had the same problem but the cause was not electrical. I don't remember the details, but my mechanic (independant Volvo guy) told me it was a common problem with older cars; there's a plastic shaft that was broken, holding the cables from openning the floor flap. He had his guy repair it by melting ...

Thanks Sean, I'll get right to it.

Hello people, My heater fan blows in every vent except the floor ones. Cold Quebec winters prompt me to look into this. My Haynes manual says that under the rotary control knobs I should find a couple of screws to set the panel free. Well there is not. There is just a blueish plastic thing where I'm...

That was in 1979 in France. They were actually fighting for the second place! They (Arnoux and Villeneuve) had to appear in front of a disciplinary commitee that said that they must have been out of their mind. Arnoux said that could have happened only between him and Villeneuve because he was at al...

Here is a link to vintage F1 racing involving our local hero the late Gilles Villeneuve back in a time where F1 was exciting:

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Os velhos tempos da F1

Ok here's the story of the first time I made a fool of myself on MVS: That million + km 95 Volvo classified ad indeed had a last line that read "1 260 000 km". BUT, on one line the ad would read: "condition A-1 260 000 km" Ahem... :oops: :oops: :roll: 1 260 000 km = 1500 miles a ...