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

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 19 Feb 2022, 09:46

Yeah, too cold for me! Here I am complaining that the high today will only be 59 F instead of the high 60s we've had!

Post by **scot850** » 19 Feb 2022, 11:39

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity!

If it wasn't for friends who are not car repair smart, I will always try to help out if I can. Even if it means going out in poor weather. It is very seldom now that our Pick and Pull junkyards have an everything sale. They used to have regular 50% everything sale but can't recall when the last one was. They always seem to hold them in the winter here which maybe is a planned thing as way fewer people go out to the yards!

We seldom get any P80's in the yards and very seldom AWD or 99-00 years strangely. Seeing many more of the P2's in there of recent times. So when you get a sale on and any P80's you have to go! Biggest problem is we now have so many people who are now doing this as a business so if you don't get there early on the day a car appears, it is mostly stripped of anything of value.
Sure I pull parts I don't need but for the most part I pass them on to those who can't afford new parts especially some of the crazy priced parts. Also I know many parts that are NLA from Volvo and may not be on the pro picker's lists due to lack of knowledge. I have a lot of those parts for our Volvo enthusiasts stashed for when they need them. I don't normally charge more than they cost me plus a couple of dollars to cover fuel and time. sometimes not even that. I like to help the enthusiasts where I can! Visits to PnP is almost free therapy for me!

Neil.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 19 Feb 2022, 12:03

LKQ used to do 40% off sales, but they haven't had one in some time now. Usually for holiday weekends. There was supposed to be one on black Friday 2020, but they ended up canceling it, which I found out as I walked onto the yard. That was the last one I remember.

yanga001 · Post by **yanga001** » 22 Feb 2022, 06:02

put another 560km on the wagon over the weekend. had an issue with cheap washer fluid freezing and plugging the passenger wiper spray nozzle. the rear wiper repair and an oil change is slated for sometime this week.

Post by **abscate** » 22 Feb 2022, 16:47

I’m 2013 I spent 2 hours of hades drilling out the hard 6mm hex head bolt holding in the AC headlines behind the right headlight.

In 2022, I grabbed my extractor socket and snarked that sucker off in 5 seconds.

Kudos to wizechatmgr!!

Post by **abscate** » 23 Feb 2022, 03:04

It’s a sickness.

Up at 0500, look down at the driveway at the project car.

“ you have seen your last sunrise, exhaust down pipe bolts”

MrGrinder and Dr Dremel are resting comfortably in their beds, soon to be at work

Post by **ZionXIX** » 23 Feb 2022, 09:13

Don't forget Professor Torch

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 23 Feb 2022, 10:15

ZionXIX wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 09:13 Don't forget Professor Torch

The Professor only comes out if it gets to the point where the fastener needs to be melted

xyna · Post by **xyna** » 23 Feb 2022, 16:44

Just drove it, and had the lambda-icon warning light come on. It was weird too because the engine was running very smoothly.

Post by **abscate** » 23 Feb 2022, 19:42

xyna wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 16:44 Just drove it, and had the lambda-icon warning light come on. It was weird too because the engine was running very smoothly.

Congratulations To you and your Hockey team, Xyna!

Burned off the exhaust bolts and have the engine and M56 loose to pull out. Used a special blind corner a Dremel disk

Ran out of time looking for all the shrubbery puller engine picker parts, have to roll to Long Island tomorrow to beat the snow

Spotted an S70 in a nice blue…colour code 441 Blue?

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