What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

Post by **DonnVa** » 31 Jul 2022, 11:43

abscate wrote: ↑31 Jul 2022, 11:33 It’s going to be loose too isnt it? Does it even stay on?

With the proper retaining clip, it pulls the caliper assembly forward tight against the bracket sandwiching the front pad tightly in there. I couldn’t move it then. I just drove it out of the neighborhood and back around. No more mystery clanking was observed.

Post by **br0dy519** » 02 Aug 2022, 18:42

Browsed pricing for new Winter tires today. I should have purchased last Christmas. Prices are up nearly 30% across the board for all the rubber I’m looking at in Canada.

What’s the cheapest place generally to get tires in the states? Is it Costco? Usually costco here has good deals on labour day, and New years day here.

Post by **abscate** » 03 Aug 2022, 01:36

br0dy519 wrote: ↑02 Aug 2022, 18:42 Browsed pricing for new Winter tires today. I should have purchased last Christmas. Prices are up nearly 30% across the board for all the rubber I’m looking at in Canada.

What’s the cheapest place generally to get tires in the states? Is it Costco? Usually costco here has good deals on labour day, and New years day here.

Tire rack for online, maybe shipping to a friend stateside ? I see P80s 15 tires on the $100-110 USD ramge in Cooper, General, etc. that’s the same as last year

Post by **br0dy519** » 03 Aug 2022, 05:27

Thanks. I really wanted those Michelin X-Ice snow, they’re well reviewed up here. Any good winter tire recommendations?

Post by **BlackBart** » 03 Aug 2022, 11:57

Bridgestone Blizzak. Amazing on ice and snow.

Post by **abscate** » 04 Aug 2022, 08:56

…and you replace them on performance, not tread wear,necessarily.

Post by **BlackBart** » 04 Aug 2022, 09:07

Right. The super sticky is the top 50% of tread wear, then they’re just good snow tires. But you put very few miles on dedicated snow tires if you’re doing it right - they wear quickly on warm dry roads.

Post by **jonesg** » 04 Aug 2022, 13:41

04 v70 turbo, just spent 2 hours wrestling the radiator out, is the intercooler supposed to come out with it?
if the two air pipes are disconnected, what else is holding the intercooler in place.
I have no idea how I'm gonna get the new one installed.
It came out through the bottom.
I'm done for today, too muggy out there.

Post by **BlackBart** » 04 Aug 2022, 17:27

Do you have a manual that describes it? I've only done it on the 850.

I'd say they should come out the top, but I've been fooled before. Intercooler hoses, coolant hoses, trans cooler hoses, A/C lines, brackets, and anything else in the way.

Post by **jonesg** » 05 Aug 2022, 10:45

BlackBart wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 17:27 Do you have a manual that describes it? I've only done it on the 850.

I'd say they should come out the top, but I've been fooled before. Intercooler hoses, coolant hoses, trans cooler hoses, A/C lines, brackets, and anything else in the way.

Theres no way it can come out the top, intercooler hose fittings are in the way.
get the clips transfered over tpo the new rad, now to get it in place.

Glad I ordered the new seals and clips for the tranny lines, old ones were beat to death by the time I got them out.
Lost very little tranny fluid, less than a cup.

What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

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