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

[Stu70]

In New Zealand new cars require a yearly check and once a vehicle is over 5 years old it is checked every 6 months - all details are on a database and a sticker is then placed on the windscreen when it is next due. It is illegal to operate a vehicle on the road without a current warrant if fitness (WOF) and yearly registration ( oddly we don’t require a driver to be insured ????)
No emission testing yet just entirely mechanically sound , safety items are working and all lights are correct and level. If I was to change to 320mm brakes or to increase tire size more than 10%,uprate turbo or change anything that the car didn’t have from new I require certification - a full in depth inspection $$$$.
Yet no compulsory insurance ? You can’t sue here either. Your insurance company pays for you and then goes after the other guys company or goes after them privately. We have a national health Corp that covers any injuries ( you can come for a vacation and if you injure yourself or have a heart attack we will cover you !!!)

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#autoamericanhealthcaresystembot

I hear you have to wait 6 years to see a Doctor under Socialism health care

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[kallekula]

In New Zealand new cars require a yearly check and once a vehicle is over 5 years old it is checked every 6 months - all details are on a database and a sticker is then placed on the windscreen when it is next due. It is illegal to operate a vehicle on the road without a current warrant if fitness (WOF) and yearly registration ( oddly we don’t require a driver to be insured ????)
No emission testing yet just entirely mechanically sound , safety items are working and all lights are correct and level. If I was to change to 320mm brakes or to increase tire size more than 10%,uprate turbo or change anything that the car didn’t have from new I require certification - a full in depth inspection $$$$.
Yet no compulsory insurance ? You can’t sue here either. Your insurance company pays for you and then goes after the other guys company or goes after them privately. We have a national health Corp that covers any injuries ( you can come for a vacation and if you injure yourself or have a heart attack we will cover you !!!)

Gotcha. I have experience with something similar yes. Here though, all we have to worry about is emissions.

[E Showell]

Steve, that sounds like a longish tow. All we'd have to do is change the head gasket on my old R engine and you could drop 305 ponies in her and have a sleeper

[abscate]

It’s killing me To part this one out with the shape the body is in but it’s not economical to restore at this point.

I have three locals with Stone Black V70s so the parts cache has good value

I cant imagine I’ll cash out as well as I did on the 99 but If I do, I’ll send bucks back to last owner since he let it go cheap after taking parts too. Last one I got lucks and sold all the metal for about 4x Harry’s prices in week one, engine And trans in week two. I never even got them off the trailer.

[bmdubya1198]

Man, I still have tons of stuff from my 850. That part out was slow going. Fortunately I didn't pay anything for the car, so I didn't care too much... I really should have taken the cat and transmission out of it though, I sold the shell with the block and transmission still attached for $80. My cousin got that for just the cat out of his S70 the other day!

[Goupil]

Tried fixing my washer fluid light staying on this morning, without any success. Sensor might be faulty.

I then decided to mount the stock rear springs I got with the car when I bought it, instead of the cheap lowering one currently on the car.

Get one in, lower the car back onto the ground...it sits even lower

After a bit of help from facebook folks and google, it appears my car was originally fitted with Nivomats I thought the nivo springs were thinner than the ones I had...
To justify the 2h spent working on this I at least got the adjustable spring perches unstuck, no more Cali lean


Also took a picture which I think looks quite good, thanks HDR mode

[abscate]

Evita at college and CLARKE, the new 98 donor that will live this fall, and then live on in other cars.

Sorry about the Vaseline on the one photo

[E Showell]

I hope she likes it.

[bmdubya1198]

Picked up some Atlantis wheels from the junkyard today. I was going to put them on my R, but I don't know yet.