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Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Re: New Garage Heaven!!!

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Ouch... that's a fun adventure. I bet his driveway smells beautifully of ATF now!
Eddystone wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 05:38 After wrenching Volvos for 13 years without a driveway or garage of my own, I am settling into a house near Cleveland, Ohio with a 2-1/2 car garage with spiffy garage door opener, a 16 ft door and overall size of about 24 ft wide and 20 ft deep. Great big heavy duty work bench. Have installed garage heater, my big old vice and my bench grinder wire brush machine. Organizing my tools, spare parts, fasteners, et cetera. My old tank compressor fired up and works fine after over a decade dormant. My incredibly heavy 6000 lb floor jack also still works and is wonderful bruiser to use. The house is great, too, but THE GARAGE!!!! ;-)
Congratulations! I'm sure you'll get a ton of use out of that garage!
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Might need some Swedish Help with this one


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Danish actually 😄

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kallekula wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 12:07 Danish actually 😄
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Arent Denmark and Sweden connected anyway? Its not like Misha in Siberia...
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abscate wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 07:14I changed oil on the Bavarian Money Waster once , with the plug out. ugly
We still have a huge stain in the alley from my son's old Land Rover we call the Valdez. We still use that..."You didn't do a Valdez again, did you?"
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abscate wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 11:38 Might need some Swedish Help with this one
That is hilarious! DEVO drives a VOLVO......?
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BlackBart wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 14:40
abscate wrote: 08 Mar 2021, 07:14I changed oil on the Bavarian Money Waster once , with the plug out. ugly
We still have a huge stain in the alley from my son's old Land Rover we call the Valdez. We still use that..."You didn't do a Valdez again, did you?"
I'll have you know that Land Rovers do not leak. It's a factory designed and implemented rustproofing approach. Leaking Land Rovers, what tosh... :mrgreen:

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My bad...sorry.

The LR3 he has now has much less....rustproofing.
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Yeah, the older ones have a better rustproofing system. That's alright, all the new ones will improve with time!
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Road trip ITH TO ALB

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High points ...saw a 1972 VW Van.....I mean Bus....edited, that’s a 73 or 74


Got passed by a Tesla with thr driver fast asleep. Creepy. Drove for about 3 minutes , then woke up
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