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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: What did you do to your Volvo today?

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Chieber wrote: 05 Jul 2025, 06:47 Got myself a mighty sword that adds 10hp when equipped.
15 HP for the red one! BMW makes one with red and blue that adds 30 HP but it’s 1000 Euro.
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abscate wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 03:34
Chieber wrote: 05 Jul 2025, 06:47 Got myself a mighty sword that adds 10hp when equipped.
15 HP for the red one! BMW makes one with red and blue that adds 30 HP but it’s 1000 Euro.
For that amount of money I’d rather book a flight to Thailand and get pegged :o

I’m done buying expensive cars and even more expensive upkeep :)
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Pretty sure this is not supposed to happen haha.
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Chieber wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 16:26
abscate wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 03:34
Chieber wrote: 05 Jul 2025, 06:47 Got myself a mighty sword that adds 10hp when equipped.
15 HP for the red one! BMW makes one with red and blue that adds 30 HP but it’s 1000 Euro.
For that amount of money I’d rather book a flight to Thailand and get pegged :o

I’m done buying expensive cars and even more expensive upkeep :)
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'97 855T5
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I don't want to talk about it.
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Ouch, that’s when you know you are in the South
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foggydogg wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 22:07 '97 855T5
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I don't want to talk about it.
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Is that all mould?!!
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Chieber wrote: 07 Jul 2025, 12:20
foggydogg wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 22:07 '97 855T5
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I don't want to talk about it.
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Is that all mould?!!
Doesn't sound like he wants to talk about it :D
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Ingrid the S70 left my friend and I stranded after we visited the New England Air Museum in Windsor CT a couple of days ago. But AAA was fairly quick to respond. So today I confirmed no fuel pressure and ordered a Walbro repair kit.
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Today I had some time left, which gave me the opportunity to fix some more things.

Replaced the passenger side damper motor for a used one. I’m going to keep the old one and try and fix it when I have more time.

Furthermore, I’ve checked the compression. Seems to be quite ok for an engine with 450k km’s.
To be honest, I should’ve checked this when I just got the car. But the car was running smooth, but still losing coolant after swapping out the faulty heater core.
So I kept postponing the compression test, in case it was real bad news.
I still have to do a leak down test, alas, that’s for another time.

Also, at the pick’n pull where I got the damper motor, I miraculously found ONE used remote amongst a mountain of keys.

It got a new battery and I retrieved the vgla pin to add the ‘new’ remote to the car.
When it was confirmed that it worked, I cleaned up the sticky shell. The pnp stuck a label around the remote.
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