What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[xHeart]

Are Swedish mice blond?
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Not all mice are blonde in Stockholm; Gamla Stan maybe. Lol!

[yanga001]

My car has decided that it would not throw any hissy fits while starting today. I may be dealing with a starter on its way out or a bad cam position sensor but i am not sure. Will fix it when time permits.

Helped a neighbor with an 11 infiniti g37x. His mechanic condemned it with a bad transmission and I was helping do a drain and fill. When we took it for a test drive i noted its temp gauge was getting pretty high. At some point the car went into the oddest version of limp home mode i ever saw. It bucked forward and backward in any gear and was pretty much undriveable from any speed. Turns out it was out of coolant. Filled her up and i saw no indications of it chewing on coolant and the heads seemed fine. Car drove correctly for 40km all the way home. A bit impressed by that v6 as i recall my old wagon blowing its heads at a short overheat (needle didnt max the gauge). Then this infiniti is able to drive for 20-30 minutes with no coolant. They just need the car to last for a bit so we may throw a few more trans drains at it and see how it goes.

[imaV70Rdriver]

Krons

Word of caution, from experience.
Buy genuine Volvo parking brake shoes.
I bought aftermarket shoes and they wouldn’t hold the car, even on the slightest slope. I changed all parts when installing new rotors to no avail. I must have had the brakes apart 8-10 times. I even replaced the parking brake cable on the suspicion that it had stretched, but the new one was the same length as the old one. Worst of all, the car (M66) lumped its way down my driveway and hit the edge of the garage door frame, damaging it and leaving me with a nasty scrape on the rear side panel.
I solved the issue by reinstalling the old brake shoes, which are still working fine five years later.

[vtl]

Word of caution, from experience.
Buy genuine Volvo parking brake shoes.
I bought aftermarket shoes and they wouldn’t hold the car, even on the slightest slope. I changed all parts when installing new rotors to no avail. I must have had the brakes apart 8-10 times. I even replaced the parking brake cable on the suspicion that it had stretched, but the new one was the same length as the old one. Worst of all, the car (M66) lumped its way down my driveway and hit the edge of the garage door frame, damaging it and leaving me with a nasty scrape on the rear side panel.
I solved the issue by reinstalling the old brake shoes, which are still working fine five years later.

Did you break new pads in? VIDA specifies a break in procedure. Also you may want to replace H-shaped show link with brake cable adjuster 30793437 + claw 30793438, they let you move shoes closer to drums.

[br0dy519]

Same goes for cables. I had a PPS cable seized out of the box.

[imaV70Rdriver]

@ vtl
IPD website says those parts don’t fit my vehicle (2004 V70R, M66). I recall expecting to see an adjustable assembly like the one you pointed out, but mine just has the “H” piece, and adjustments are made at the parking brake lever. Not sure if retrofitting with the adjuster is possible.
I did “try” to bed-in the shoes because the new rotors had a coating (thin layer of black paint if I remember correctly). Bedding the shoes removed the paint so I know there was some contact, but the shoes just wouldn’t hold on any slope, regardless of the cable nut adjustment (that’s why I changed the cable).
I carefully measured and compared both the new and the old shoes and found that the new shoes didn’t have as much metal where the “H” piece contacted the shoes. I even thought about welding on a bit more metal to make up for the difference, but ultimately I reinstalled the old shoes when I noticed this issue, and since the old ones held the car on a hill, and because I was tired of repeatedly pulling apart the brakes, I decided to leave what was working alone.

[vtl]

@ vtl
IPD website says those parts don’t fit my vehicle (2004 V70R, M66).

Because it is for P80 platform I had them on all 3 P2 wagons I've had.

To add to your anxieties: I had brand new Volvo parking shoes separated shortly after installation. Unfortunately they are made in China now, quality dropped. Maybe Volvo had it sorted out by now, maybe not.

[Krons]

Krons

Word of caution, from experience.
Buy genuine Volvo parking brake shoes.
I bought aftermarket shoes and they wouldn’t hold the car, even on the slightest slope. I changed all parts when installing new rotors to no avail. I must have had the brakes apart 8-10 times. I even replaced the parking brake cable on the suspicion that it had stretched, but the new one was the same length as the old one. Worst of all, the car (M66) lumped its way down my driveway and hit the edge of the garage door frame, damaging it and leaving me with a nasty scrape on the rear side panel.
I solved the issue by reinstalling the old brake shoes, which are still working fine five years later.

I did go cheap with a TRQ set. Used their kit on the front brakes and has worked well. Hard to beat the rear kit for $110USD. No old shoes to install if you looked at the photo I posted.

My driveway has a slight incline and after adjusting it would hold—when I put in reverse would start backing slightly. Keep in mind there was zero parking brake before (no yearly inspections here in Iowa) so my goal was enough parking brake to take pressure off the transmission park pawl. I still have a bit more slack in the cable adjustment I can take up…just didn’t want the shoes dragging too much.

[Krons]

Did you break new pads in? VIDA specifies a break in procedure. Also you may want to replace H-shaped show link with brake cable adjuster 30793437 + claw 30793438, they let you move shoes closer to drums.

I saw a YouTube video about that adjuster, in my case the H link does seem to be just good enough to hold. Do you happen to have that break in procedure from VIDA?

[vtl]

My coloradodriveshaft driveshaft finally gave up, u-joint is dead and loud. 8 years and 75k miles for $565, not bad.

My beard became much longer and much more gray in these 8 years, I'll try to replace the u-joint myself this time.