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

Post by **Rattnalle** » 03 Feb 2019, 10:28

Driving in winter wonderland

Post by **June** » 03 Feb 2019, 10:44

Rattnalle wrote: 03 Feb 2019, 10:28 Driving in winter wonderland

WOW! That's beautiful!!! June

WhatAmIDoing · Post by **WhatAmIDoing** » 03 Feb 2019, 13:50

Rattnalle wrote: 03 Feb 2019, 10:28 Driving in winter wonderland

My brain: Don't drift the turn, don't drift the turn, don't drift the turn...
Me: attempts to drift turn

Post by **Rattnalle** » 03 Feb 2019, 14:17

WhatAmIDoing wrote: 03 Feb 2019, 13:50
Rattnalle wrote: 03 Feb 2019, 10:28 Driving in winter wonderland
My brain: Don't drift the turn, don't drift the turn, don't drift the turn...
Me: attempts to drift turn

I might have slid a little.. No hand brake slides alone in the middle of the forest with noone to drag me out though.

Post by **ZionXIX** » 04 Feb 2019, 07:03

Fun with electrical this morning. Car acts like its immobilized. Dash lights are dim, no cranking, no fuel pump priming. Battery voltage is at 7.6volts despite being on a maintainer for 2 weeks. Charger reads 100% and refuses to charge the battery. Bought a new battery on the way to work. Going to swap it in later and see what happens.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 04 Feb 2019, 08:34

ZionXIX wrote: 04 Feb 2019, 07:03 Fun with electrical this morning. Car acts like its immobilized. Dash lights are dim, no cranking, no fuel pump priming. Battery voltage is at 7.6volts despite being on a maintainer for 2 weeks. Charger reads 100% and refuses to charge the battery. Bought a new battery on the way to work. Going to swap it in later and see what happens.

WOW that's a dead battery! My R's battery was at around 10 volts, fortunately I was able to jump it and move it, and the other day it took a charge. Not sure how long that's gonna last though. I picked up a Harbor Freight load tester and it showed it was DEAD, below 200 CCA. That's what really killed it the first time!
One of the nivomats totally blew out from the cold last week. Left a big spot of oil on my driveway

the longer that car sits, the more that breaks!

Post by **abscate** » 04 Feb 2019, 11:00

That might be from June and I driving by the other day and your R wet himself..

Post by **ZionXIX** » 04 Feb 2019, 12:34

Just as predicted, new battery brings her back to life.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 04 Feb 2019, 15:08

abscate wrote: 04 Feb 2019, 11:00 That might be from June and I driving by the other day and your R wet himself..

Haha must have!

Post by **Ocelot** » 05 Feb 2019, 00:30

So this morning I'm sitting on the toilet - doing you know what - and since I left me mobile phone in the living room I started to read the owners manual of my S70. Yes, I keep the owners manual on my toilet. I like to read the old thing and today I noticed that my n/a 1998 S70 is equipped with a Fenix 5.2 ecu system instead of a Motronic 4.4. Now I know that Motronic comes from Bosch, but from what company comes the Fenix system? Directly from Volvo? And I read something about Fenix 5.2 and I quote: "The fact is that the Fenix 5.2 ECU is not OBDII or EOBD compliant. It also does not support live data even with a Volvo scan tool." Does this mean that when there is an error code in the ECU, I wont be able to read it with a covential EOBD scantool? If so, with what tecnique can I read fault codes? Thanks in advance for all your wisdom

Edit: I've learned so far that the Fenix 5.2 system is from Siemens. Some people on YouTube made some kind of a device with a led to read certain codes. When I open the armrest I can see a little cover with the letters "OBD" on it. Is that just for show then?