960 with issues. Mostly electrical.

Michaelxlindsay · Post by **Michaelxlindsay** » 23 Nov 2018, 10:45

Hello

I have a 1997 960 I bought 2 years ago and have been chasing down the problems 1 by 1 and am now to the hard stuff. I got a key fob for the car thinking I could program it for keyless entry. Nope. No flashing red LED & no chime. Actually no illumination from any switches on the dash and console. Found a blown fuse & it restored my clock. Someone experienced sunroof leakage and did not know you could clear the drains. So it got siliconed & the headliner board thrown away. I’m guessing water damage, however I was told Volvo used a fuse link behind the dashboard that can blow and cause console lamps and the Alarm system to fail, ergo no programming for remote. I know the 960II is not popular, but I like it. The blower position selection doesn’t seem to work either. It’s electronic-vacuum controlled and I should have an ambient temp sensor somewhere in the removen dome lamp, which does have slats for such a sensor, however just a braided wire loom and plugs sugessting someone cut the rubber line? I read in a forum someone complaining about the whistling noise during WOT coming from the backseat and enevitably the solution was a check valve in said hose. So it must be behind the B pillar chopped off. I did rebuild the washer system for the headlamp and windshield washers. I think Volvo has a special tee with different inner diameters for diffrent hosed because it seems that way too much water gets to the headlamps. Like your house plumbing or a/c heating duct work gets smaller the further from the blower?

Thanks for ANY help!

dm635 · Post by **dm635** » 23 Nov 2018, 17:50

You've got a number of issues. On the vent selection there are vacuum pods that direct the flow of air where you select the knob. They are on the drivers side, up and to the right of the gas pedal. 3 pods 4 hoses. You can check they're connected. And I believe the controller for the hoses is behind the glove box. The hoses are connected to a unit. I'm putting my car back together after a replacement heater core and have had all this apart. No help on the headlight wipers, after buying a set of headlight wipers exactly 1 time from the dealer I now remove it all and plug the hoses.

Michaelxlindsay · Post by **Michaelxlindsay** » 23 Nov 2018, 19:27

Hey man, that’s totally cool. I fought my car since day 1 and didn’t notice half the sh*t wrong until two months or so later. If I’d have looked up and seen no headliner, and pulled down the sun visor looking for lights, I’d probably have questioned the guy a bit more. I didn’t notice the blend doors weren’t moving until summer when I got educated that the AC snowflake lamp wasn’t supposed to blink. The recirculation works so there is at least some vacuum. I have no chime. I bought the part # but it’s too cold right now to deal with. I have to disassemble so much of the dash and console that I’ll replace everything vacuum and controller related, and tape up the air ducts really tight. Not one switch on the dash lights up at night and neither the console or rear ashtray. The outside temperature LCD backlight bulb has gone too & one in the instrument cluster plus half the ACC unit. The headliner is gone because the sunroof drain tubes clogged and the cast of previous owners decided silicone was the cure. For a while, at least. I don’t want to fix that until I get a headliner, but I may end up having to, I’m not going to silicone it when I can fix it. I need a drivers seat track, and have a new backseat, passenger seat skins, 2000 V70 floormats, so I did this once with a Jetta, just pull it all and carpet, toss in a 5x extractor and a 2x dryer, looks factory fresh carpet. 1x dryers at a laundromat will melt & scorch the carpet. In the meantime I’m laying down dynamat like 90 going west. Floor, firewall, rear seat well and back & roof. Probably 20-30 lbs of it but I’m doing the M52 split equal length 1.5 into 2 inch headers and towing it to Illinois where I know a guy. It’s not illegal to have dual exhaust, but it might as well be for a Bosch downstream O2 sensor that won’t throw a code. I want good stuff so I designed a 3 inch tube to mount it off the balancer so it will get a different reading and not throw a code. Some $5 sensor for that will probably burn out and I’m gonna get the early 2.9 cams for my next timing belt change. I might need an ECM flash, I just don’t know. I also need an outside temperature sensor for the temperature gauge and suspect it is not a digital compass.