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

[bmdubya1198]

Hurricane Lee Prep. Still 8-9 days out but at T-5 no plywood to be found

are those wheels from an xc90 or s60?

P2 V70, I believe.

[abscate]

Hurricane Lee Prep. Still 8-9 days out but at T-5 no plywood to be found

are those wheels from an xc90 or s60?

I don’t remember. It was dark in the parking lot and I had to work quickly

[CIK7]

Hurricane Lee Prep. Still 8-9 days out but at T-5 no plywood to be found

are those wheels from an xc90 or s60?

I don’t remember. It was dark in the parking lot and I had to work quickly

Whoop whoop! Its da sound of da police!
Whoop whoop! Its da sound of da beast!

[FireFox31]

I was sitting cursing about having tested the 8 speakers I pulled last weekend to find 3/8 were bad and all came from the same car.

Test them with a AA battery before buying them. Connect a battery terminal to each speaker wire terminal. A dead speaker won't move, one with at least some life will move. I don't know how to tell if they're perfectly responsive over their full range without connecting them to an audio source, but I'd like to try that. I'll be shopping for spare speakers soon so I'm looking for tests.

If only they knew what happened while I was bringing waste oil to the recycling center yesterday. I'm sure you can draw conclusions...

It may be a pain to clean up spills, but the effort is worth it to prevent environmental contamination.

[MrAl]

I was sitting cursing about having tested the 8 speakers I pulled last weekend to find 3/8 were bad and all came from the same car.

Test them with a AA battery before buying them. Connect a battery terminal to each speaker wire terminal. A dead speaker won't move, one with at least some life will move. I don't know how to tell if they're perfectly responsive over their full range without connecting them to an audio source, but I'd like to try that. I'll be shopping for spare speakers soon so I'm looking for tests.

If only they knew what happened while I was bringing waste oil to the recycling center yesterday. I'm sure you can draw conclusions...

It may be a pain to clean up spills, but the effort is worth it to prevent environmental contamination.

Hi,

You can get a small audio generator that runs on batteries and not too expensive, but the real problem is you can't really test speakers that easily. The response of an open air speaker will not be the same as when it is an enclosure, and since enclosures vary so much, it will depend partly on the shape of the enclosure and any ports on it and what was used for sound deadening inside. It can even change depending on where you put it in the room. It's a fairly complicated test anyway.

I used to use the battery test too just to see if it was working. A speaker with an open coil will not move and not make any sound. A good coil on a speaker will make a 'click' sound when you connect the battery and again when you disconnect it. You might note that a larger speaker will make a deeper click sound so it shows it has more base. Some of the good smaller ones may do that too these days they make them better now with the rare earth magnets, something I never had when I was playing in bands long ago.
The headphones made today also have excellent base response as many of them are made with the rare earth magnets too. Pretty nice.
In any case I would say a graphic equalizer would help a lot here.

It's a little interesting that connecting a battery is much like applying a step input to the speaker and that will have a lot of odd harmonic content. If you had a calibrated microphone and a spectrum analyzer (common on even cheaper oscilloscopes these days) you could look at the harmonic response and compare it to a raw step harmonic content. You would see some of the harmonics diminished or lost in the response of the speaker.

[bmdubya1198]

It may be a pain to clean up spills, but the effort is worth it to prevent environmental contamination.

I took care of any spills from it, fortunately my bed liner mostly contained it. I ran to Walmart around the block to grab some cat litter to soak it all up. Two bags barely covered what was left in the bed lol.
I'm just glad this happened in my truck and not one of my cars. I would have been furious if I had to clean that up!

[abscate]

Caught the last half hour of the beach swimming with the photoplankton/ algae. Eveytime you swam a stroke they light up in the water like liquid fire

Got up at 0500 to listen to screech and great horned Owls

[bmdubya1198]

The owls make some crazy sounds. When they really get going, they start to sound like monkeys.

[scot850]

850 rear wheel alignment bolts freed off thanks to my mechanic buddy on the 850 NA base for my young friend.

He then asked if he could use my hoist to swap a rear Nivomat on his 850 AWD. I have never seen a Nivomat totally blown out like his was. Car is now sitting straight and not sagging it's but on one side!

Now off to start the shopping list for the 98 V70 base suspension re-fit!

After that have to arrange to get the 97 850 GLT here to give it a once over and repair plan!

Neil.

[manovlov]

Replaced driver side door catch.