What did you do to your Volvo today? Topic is solved

[gordo850turbo]

Saved a '98 S70 with 78k on it from being scrapped for $400 last year (ate a timing belt) My son has been driving it for a year with no problems. He got a set of Dynaudios for Christmas and we are in the process of adding the C70 amp to run them. Over the past year I have picked up bits and pieces required for the full system. SC-901, center speaker, Dolby processor, dash pad with center speaker hole. Hopefully by next weekend we will have everything in!

[850 LPT]

Interesting! I used the Nokya ones before and they burned out in less than 4 weeks. But that was in the days when I drove the car for 2 hours a day, which I don't do anymore. I went back to normal Osram's and used a yellow tinting foil on the fog light glass. But it's not a very dark yellow at all and doesn't look that great.

I did the relay mod myself, works great.

[bmdubya1198]

Interesting! I used the Nokya ones before and they burned out in less than 4 weeks. But that was in the days when I drove the car for 2 hours a day, which I don't do anymore. I went back to normal Osram's and used a yellow tinting foil on the fog light glass. But it's not a very dark yellow at all and doesn't look that great.

I did the relay mod myself, works great.

Hmm, that's weird. I guess they were bad bulbs. I have been running mine, like I said, for a little over a year and my dad is running H7 versions of the same bulbs on his E39 528i for probably 6 months. No problems with either car.
I was impressed at first at how bold the color is for just changing the bulb and not tinting the lens!

[Matt88ch]

I put on my painted back up grill, painted the inside black and left the chrome lip, also took of the Volvo emblem, I think it looks nice without it

[Matt88ch]

And yes that was my parts v70 in the back on the left haha

[abscate]

Drive the T5 from ALB to ITH to BUF to ROC to ALB all in one day. Kept it at 65, 27 mpg.

Closed two orders for 27k of commissions. I've had worse days.

[850 LPT]

Well, I've been battling a minor misfire at idle for while on the 850, which I drive every day right now. I was suspecting a small vacuum leak at the intake but can't find anything.
This morning at the diner things got worse. Totally erratic idle and a flashing check engine light. Time to make a phone call to my indie and wake up the V70 from it's slumber.

[bmdubya1198]

Similar to my random surging at idle. Hasn't done it in a couple weeks *knock on wood.*
I think I just had bad luck with the first crank sensor I swapped in. The only time it threw a CEL was while I was actually driving (it started coughing while driving) showed crank sensor circuit and 3 misfire codes. It's surged at idle once since I put in the current crank sensor, but like I said, it's been good since then.

[erikv11]

Thread is back from the dead!

Got a text on Friday morning that the V70 (it is up in Minneapolis for the summer with our youngest) was spewing gas from under the car. A phone call later we figured out the fuel pipe was leaking after the filter. So I pulled that piece from my 97 parts car yesterday morning, rather than drop about $250 to the dealer. Except for removing the pipe from the plastic housing on the FPR, it was actually a lot easier than I expected. Drove up today and replaced it in the parking lot (at least the lot was empty on a Saturday), back home tonight.

It looks like a rock or hunk of metal etc bounced up and hit the old fuel pipe, there was a big gouge out of the jacket and a hole in the plastic pipe underneath. First time I've ever had any issue with that part on a P80.

[ZionXIX]

Thread is back from the dead!

Got a text on Friday morning that the V70 (it is up in Minneapolis for the summer with our youngest) was spewing gas from under the car. A phone call later we figured out the fuel pipe was leaking after the filter. So I pulled that piece from my 97 parts car yesterday morning, rather than drop about $250 to the dealer. Except for removing the pipe from the plastic housing on the FPR, it was actually a lot easier than I expected. Drove up today and replaced it in the parking lot (at least the lot was empty on a Saturday), back home tonight.

It looks like a rock or hunk of metal etc bounced up and hit the old fuel pipe, there was a big gouge out of the jacket and a hole in the plastic pipe underneath. First time I've ever had any issue with that part on a P80.

That's crazy! I didn't even know that could happen. What are the odds?