What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[abscate]

What I find happening is that I order a batch of parts - all together for shipping savings, they're not all part of one project. I put the ones that aren't critical right now on a shelf / on the tool box / in the glove box / in the back of the wagon / in the wrong car / in my office / on the floor of the garage..........and damn if a couple months later I can't find those parts to save my life.

I’ve finally learned To put all parts in one box for each make, although filters I keep separately on shelves

[BlackBart]

I thought I was doing that....but the system has obviously fallen down! A nice set of fog lamp bulbs has vanished! The box with the rest of the parts is sitting quietly in the back of the car....

[Rattnalle]

You know it's winter when you're moving the cars around the yard with the head out the open door because the windows are too icy too see through and the icy window won't go down.

I did brush a bit to keep appearances up at first but too much ice underneath.

[oragex]

Removed the rear deck cover (access to speakers) and replaced again the DIM led backlight

[oragex]

...and the icy window won't go down.

That's my fear when the temperature drops, the outside strip get stuck on the window from ice, it's what causes those blue sliders to break (and sometimes even the regulator arms to bend)

Have an habit from now on

[abscate]

...and the icy window won't go down.

That's my fear when the temperature drops, the outside strip get stuck on the window from ice, it's what causes those blue sliders to break (and sometimes even the regulator arms to bend)

Have an habit from now on

Thats an awesome tip. You could run an old hotel key,plastic in the gap but this method requires no tools.

[Rattnalle]

...and the icy window won't go down.

That's my fear when the temperature drops, the outside strip get stuck on the window from ice, it's what causes those blue sliders to break (and sometimes even the regulator arms to bend)

Have an habit from now on

That's not the part that worries me. It's when the entire window is covered in icy lumps like it was the other day when the sun had thawed a bit of the snow then it froze again.

But mostly I just never feel a need to lower the windows in winter to begin with so its not much of an issue

[bepilot]

Timing belt, all 4 tires changed, full engine flush, car now ready to rack up those miles... the e85 tune I did 2 weeks ago is well done, cold winter starts run effortlessly. Also played with some leds to replace 2 faulty lights in the aircon-panel, but I have that SRS message now you’re talking about oragex, should have watched your vid before lol. Pretty sure though you don’t need that vida-stuff to reset that, we’ll see...

[oragex]

...and the icy window won't go down.

That's my fear when the temperature drops, the outside strip get stuck on the window from ice, it's what causes those blue sliders to break (and sometimes even the regulator arms to bend)

Have an habit from now on

That's not the part that worries me. It's when the entire window is covered in icy lumps like it was the other day when the sun had thawed a bit of the snow then it froze again.

But mostly I just never feel a need to lower the windows in winter to begin with so its not much of an issue

We call this freezing rain here In Canada. Climate warming caused an interesting new weather behavior in recent years. Above the north pole there is usually a mostly 'round' mass of polar air that rotates (polar vortex). With climate warming, this mass is less dense and starts 'breaking' apart. Instead of spinning in a 'round' shape and stay above the north pole, masses of cold air detach, move further south and pass above Canada. The results: the temperatures alternate really a lot: in a matter of hours it can drop 10C or so. We can have now 8C (45F), tomorrow it drops to -8C (17F). So we had rain today, tomorrow everything is freezing solid. The worst scenario is a feezing rain that leaves 1cm of ice on the cars, and the next day the temp drops to -10C. Scrapping the ice off car windows at-10C gets fun especially if one doesn't have time to let the car warm up (assuming he gets to open one door and start the engine).

This time it wasn't that bad, the temperature wasn't that low the day after the freezing rain

[oragex]

Trip at the junkyard and two more small vids: one with the hood release handle (sometimes it breaks), I put some links in the video description, from around the net with how to replace the cable, how to release the hood without the cable, etc

Also got to explore those 'to depress' points when removing the front seats headrests