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

[abscate]

Put fancy wheels on my 850.

Apparently, the car doesn't like them, because immediately after I got sputtering and coughing like crazy. CEL came on with multiple misfire codes.
I never checked after I bought the car in the spring, but I pulled the cap and rotor and they are the worse ones I have ever seen. Same goes for the plugs.

The poster child event for the “ad hoc ergo propter hoc” fallacy.

Translated from the Swedish , A follows B , therefore B caused A.

[Ocelot]

As a new member of this forum, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Ocelot and I'm from the Netherlands. I've been a car-mechanic for six years before my back told me to find another job. I'm a tall fellow, about 2.05 meters tall so it isn't a suprise I chose to drive a Volvo S70. I was really lucky to find the one that I did with only one previous owner and a detailed maintenance-history. I couldn't be happier! I have the car for just two weeks now and today I brought it to a local Volvo dealer for the yearly inspection and for a non-functioning airconditioning.

I just received a phonecall that she passed the inspection, only thing wrong was a broken CV-boot which they fixed for a fair price. The airconditioning was low on R134a, so that's working as it should now.

Here's a pic of Freya: https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN ... LYyZsoqAzW

I hope to help people where I can on this forum and when the time comes, I can find some help with Freya.

[abscate]

Hallo Ocelot. I practice my bad Dutch below....

Blij dat je gekke Amerikaanse Volvo-mensen ontmoet met gekke Nederlandse Volvo-mensen

[Ocelot]

Hi Abscate,

Thanks for your Dutch message!

[jvl]

Hoi Ocelot,

Welkom! Leuk om wat meer Nederlandse Volvo-ervaringen uit te kunnen wisselen. (Welcome! It's nice to hear about other experiences with Volvo from the Netherlands.)

Cool that you bought an S70! I have been dreaming about having one as a second car (now have a blue 1999 V70XC that has 330.000 km on it and still going strong.)
Let me know if you run into any issues, as I have unfortunately gained some experience with the common failures!

Joost

[abscate]

Waited in vain for the Rs to show up for the ferry. Even kept the second place row open for them. Alas, they are still en route so I boarded.

June caught the ferry an hour before.

[June]

528133DD-68BA-4E07-B342-B9C28628335B.jpeg5EFCA6A9-2780-4031-91B9-E5345C55B713.jpegWaited in vain for the Rs to show up for the ferry. Even kept the second place row open for them. Alas, they are still en route so I boarded.

June caught the ferry an hour before.

June

Love that blue paint!

[bmdubya1198]

528133DD-68BA-4E07-B342-B9C28628335B.jpeg5EFCA6A9-2780-4031-91B9-E5345C55B713.jpegWaited in vain for the Rs to show up for the ferry. Even kept the second place row open for them. Alas, they are still en route so I boarded.

June caught the ferry an hour before.

Nice painter's tape on that corner light...

[abscate]

Matches the paint...

I’ve hortiblyabused the paint on this car. Look at the scratches the twins didhelping me scrape snow off one winter, with a steel edge shovel...

On edit,..yesterday I drove ALB to Allentown PA to Piscataway N.J. , Queens , Melville, BROOKHAVEN, Port Jeff, Bridgeport CT, Lee MA, back to ALB

I love boost.

[bmdubya1198]

Matches the paint...

I’ve hortiblyabused the paint on this car. Look at the scratches the twins didhelping me scrape snow off one winter, with a steel edge shovel...

On edit,..yesterday I drove ALB to Allentown PA to Piscataway N.J. , Queens , Melville, BROOKHAVEN, Port Jeff, Bridgeport CT, Lee MA, back to ALB

I love boost.

Those scratches are nothing compared to my cousin's T5. His even has a smiley face scratched into the hood. The last owner had some fun drawing on the car.

Boost is addictive.