MVS Newsletter: January 2018 Volvo News!

Volvo News – January 2018

Please use MVS Sponsors. They’re the ones at the top of MVS pages. When you buy parts from them, you help keep MVS on the Web. IPD, eEuro, FCP and Voluparts.

Features

• Part Two of the History of the Volvo 5-Cylinder Engine
• 20 Years of Polestar’s History with Volvo
• Care by Volvo – 2 years, $16k, Nothing at the End. Worth it?

MVS News, Fixes and Members’ Volvos

• Let’s See Your Volvo (The Photo Thread) continues its march toward infamy, now at 110 pages. First page (2009) to most recent page.
• Spotlight on eEuroparts, a top-level partner of MVS for the better part of a decade — They’re dependable and they know their stuff, a rock solid place to get Volvo parts.
• Change Cartridge to Canister Oil Filter? “On a P2, Has anyone tried replacing the oil filter mount assembly with an older one, from a P1, so a standard canister oil filter can be used?”
• A reminder to clean the climate control cabin sensor in P2 Volvos — This is one of those simple fixes that are usually arrived at after time, effort and money. For MVS Contributor June, cleaning this sensor eliminated “the constant sound of the electric doors of the climate system changing position like they were hunting”.

QOTM

“Previously I ran dino oil, snapped the turbo shaft and set cvvt codes. Switched to Mobil 1 and everything runs better.”