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What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

Help, Advice, Owners' Discussion and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's stylish, distinctive P2 platform cars sold as model years 2001-2007 (North American market year designations).

2001 - 2007 V70
2001 - 2004 V70 XC (Cross Country)
2004 - 2007 XC70 (Cross Country)
2001 - 2009 S60
2003 - 2007 S60 R
2004 - 2007 V70 R

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DonnVa
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Re: What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

Post by DonnVa »

I installed a center speaker in my dash. I used a 4 channel amp and used the power and ground under the passenger seat for the factory amp option. Put a 30 amp fuse in location 11 on the drivers side fuse panel and got 12v to the connector. I pulled a left and right front RCA out of my Sony head unit and split them to 4. I used 2 channels to power the front L/R door speakers and bridged the other two outputs to the center channel. The rear speakers are still powered by the high level speaker outs of the Sony. I blended the gains on the amp to even out the sound. Sounds great for my purposes. The XC seemed to be lacking in sound especially in the front. I didn’t notice that in the S60 I had.
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Post by scot850 »

:lol: :lol:

I love watching others work..................!

2 jobs for the price of one! Bonus!!

Neil.
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Post by jonesg »

I drove over a dead coyote on the highway in millinocket and my exhaust repair is making noise again.

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Post by volvolugnut »

jonesg wrote: 21 Aug 2022, 15:11 I drove over a dead coyote on the highway in millinocket and my exhaust repair is making noise again.
I hate do overs.
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Post by BlackBart »

So did the coyote.
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Post by jonesg »

BlackBart wrote: 21 Aug 2022, 21:59 So did the coyote.
it was dead, I made it deader.

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Post by abscate »

Named Wiley, no doubt

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Post by lrock »

stretched its front subframe between two trees with a 5 ton pullback ram while heating it with a Mapp torch and beating it with a hammer.
does VIDA include Tram dimensions ? :D

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lrock wrote: 26 Aug 2022, 23:23 stretched its front subframe between two trees with a 5 ton pullback ram while heating it with a Mapp torch and beating it with a hammer.
does VIDA include Tram dimensions ? :D
we're gonna need pics for that.

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Post by jonesg »

I started to install front wheel bearing, had to remove control arm tpo get to the 4 bolts holding the bearing carrier to the knuckle.
the old wheel bearing is very rough when spun so it was shot for sure.

Discovered the ball joint is loose and clicky so started to replace that too whilst i'm in there.
One of the bolts holding the ball joint flange snapped off.
i removed the whole knuckle and set it up in the vice, theres barely 1 thread proud of the knuckle, I plan to weld a nut to the threaded portion and see if I can turn it out.
Thats the plan.

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