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

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Cleaned up some old brake rotors woth angle grinder and flap discs , fun fun fun

[ZionXIX]

Christmas present to me. New aftermarket headlights with E code lenses from IPD. I always thought these lense clips would be difficult to remove without gouging the plastic or lense. Turns out its quite easy to pry with a screwdriver as shown and no glue holding the lenses on. What a great design. These headlights came with bulbs pre-installed but I did not know that at the time and now have a spare set. Hope to see some good results tonight.

[ZionXIX]

So my new headlights seem to have an adjustment issue. When adjusting height in front of a garage door, the right headlight seems to max its adjustment out to a few inches lower than the left side. Does anyone know how high the beam should be at a given distance?

[yanga001]

Did a late night transmission drain and fill (brown not black fluid ), and attempted to fix my locking issue. On my 98, when i use the key fob, the lights will not flash when locked. I verified everything is in a high state via VOLFCR and now i just have to find my key fob which i had the day before and test it. It gives a nice bit of peace of mind when i can see lights flash as oppose to listen for the lock actuation.

[MoVolvos]

Did a late night transmission drain and fill (brown not black fluid )

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The fluid was brown and silvery when I purchased a 98 S70 T5 with 230K or so miles in 2012. Did a complete flush and it ran great. The following year it felt just a wee bit sluggish so replaced it once again and it was back to excellent.

I can't remember if the fluid came out the hose with the O-Ring on top or the hose with the O-Ring on the bottom of the radiator in my 98?




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[MoVolvos]

So my new headlights seem to have an adjustment issue. When adjusting height in front of a garage door, the right headlight seems to max its adjustment out to a few inches lower than the left side. Does anyone know how high the beam should be at a given distance?

I thought those were glass rather than plastic lenses? Our old 98 S70 T5 were glass so I just replace both. The reflector material powdered so I tried some reflective paint which was not that great.



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[MoVolvos]

Christmas present to me. New aftermarket headlights with E code lenses from IPD. I always thought these lense clips would be difficult to remove without gouging the plastic or lense. Turns out its quite easy to pry with a screwdriver as shown and no glue holding the lenses on. What a great design. These headlights came with bulbs pre-installed but I did not know that at the time and now have a spare set. Hope to see some good results tonight.

Try some LED's. The interior of those run hot so the reflective material eventually takes a beating and being in TX I'm sure it's even hotter.

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Did a late night transmission drain and fill (brown not black fluid )

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The fluid was brown and silvery when I purchased a 98 S70 T5 with 230K or so miles in 2012. Did a complete flush and it ran great. The following year it felt just a wee bit sluggish so replaced it once again and it was back to excellent.

I can't remember if the fluid came out the hose with the O-Ring on top or the hose with the O-Ring on the bottom of the radiator in my 98?




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Flow out of the top hose , away from the transmission.

I did a 500 mile swing to central NY and blew Number 3 ignition coil one mile from home.

Love your car and it will love you back. 110k on Bosch new coils

Update. Looks like I dropped a valve on number 3, no compression, 30 psi

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Changed my oil on a beautiful 55F fall day, new Mahle filter, Mobil 1.

Got on my knees and thanked my 1999T5 for still running me around reliably at 180k miles with two last kids in college. Two more years

I bet she will give you another 100k if you keep treating her right.

So far, 4 more years and 80k

[ZionXIX]

These are my new headlight at max height adjustment. At 10ft away there is literally a 1 foot difference in adjustment. I think my passenger headlight may be broken or defective.