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

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 15 Jan 2018, 08:12

skloon wrote: 14 Jan 2018, 11:35 Changed my struts- was -12 when I started but 0 when I finished, how on earth this happened I have no idea

Woah... that happened in the car? I bet that made a nice sound!

As for the LEDs, they should work fine. My cousin put them in his S70 and the front map lights worked, but were very dim. The rear ones didn't work at all. I think the issue though is the LED itself, not the car.
Let us know if it works for you, I'd be interested to know.

Post by **loosenut** » 18 Jan 2018, 08:40

one of my 99 v70xc has 235k miles on it. so instead of a nice and intact coil wire harness. mine looked more like a rats nest. wires are cracked brittle and have open spots. so i have tried to keep all separate. went to the junk yard and cut a harness off for the coils and that included the can sensor also.
so i spliced that in and was very suprised with the amount of smoothness it created. i had never had the CEL on for miss fires or anything so it never ran ruff. although the smoothness of responce was very noticable...so then i drain and filled the trans and coolant flush with an oil change with some cam2 blue blood full syn.
my car is very happy....

Post by **abscate** » 19 Jan 2018, 04:31

volare wrote: 10 Jan 2018, 12:29 Having replaced the bad coil and appreciated the sound of the smoothly running engine, today I stared at the dashboard and said some blue words because the blower motor quit again. I've replaced it once already in the 2 years I've had this car with a same-year unit from the boneyard (along with the power stage); given its age it's not surprising it crapped out, I was just hoping to get more time out of it, but back to dismantling the glove box etc. It's winter in Massachusetts, I kinda need the defrost to work for anyone to drive it.

Need to decide whether to get another scrap one or plunk down $60-$80 for a new unit.

Nice meeting you last night , Volare.

Hope you get your hear working again !

Post by **volare** » 19 Jan 2018, 10:42

Pleasure to make your acquaintance!
Today I'm putting in the parts I got from you, with a little luck the Falcon will be flying casual again soon

Looking better already. Duct tape ain't great trim.

Post by **wizechatmgr** » 19 Jan 2018, 17:24

Northeast Bumblebanana? Is that another name for Boston traffic? =)

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 20 Jan 2018, 18:40

Found this at the junkyard today in a V70. Pretty cool to find something from Volvo Lisle all the way in NC.

Post by **wizechatmgr** » 20 Jan 2018, 19:03

Cool find, goes to show these cars don't just sit around doing simple commuting... =)

Post by **FLXC90** » 20 Jan 2018, 19:09

Now for the real test, are there any coupons left, and will they honor them

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 20 Jan 2018, 21:25

FLXC90 wrote: 20 Jan 2018, 19:09 Now for the real test, are there any coupons left, and will they honor them

It was full! I didn’t grab it (didn’t want to pay whatever those guys wanted to charge me) but it was a cool find indeed! I should have pocketed it... lots of valuable service coupons if they would still take them!

Post by **abscate** » 21 Jan 2018, 02:52

FLXC90 wrote: 20 Jan 2018, 19:09 Now for the real test, are there any coupons left, and will they honor them

..and will the double them and give you green stamps