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Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Pulled into Vera Bradley, because you never know when you need another bag....and

421 Green, 1998 S70
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Post by erikv11 »

Nice green, nice wheel covers.

What's that shoddy blue one next to it? Looks slow.
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421, even with the incredibly poor colourmatch on the fender, always looks great. Not biased at all, mind.

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We have not this Tangers you speak of here on our planet.
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Post by cuhfs »

:shock: Abscate - Certainly hope you were able to accessorize too. Perhaps new summer shoes?
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Well familiar with Riverhead, used to be a tiny town not too long ago. My mother bought a house east of there in 1962 that we sold recently after she died. Lots of vineyards a bit east, used to be potato farms, and pretty all the way east as far as you can go.
I will be back there to visit shortly, Volvo permitting.

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cuhfs wrote: 23 Apr 2021, 17:36 :shock: Abscate - Certainly hope you were able to accessorize too. Perhaps new summer shoes?
What kind of shoes do mechanics like?

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Post by FireFox31 »

That green is really nice. I miss my Nautic Blue, but having the green is a nice replacement.
Cookeh wrote: 23 Apr 2021, 13:00 421, even with the incredibly poor colourmatch on the fender, always looks great. Not biased at all, mind.
Do you have any tips for getting a good color match on the bumpers? My green bumpers are a mess and I'd really like to have them painted. Their texture is terrible as if paint flaked off. I really don't want to get new bumpers.
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Post by Cookeh »

The best thing to do is to clean and polish your paint on the fender and hood, then get paint made up to match the shade on those panels. Colours fade and there were even factory variations depending on how sprayed it in which country so the chances of 421 matching perfectly is slim. Any decent paint shop should be able to measure the RGB of your current paint and match to it.

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