Bipolar Volvo owner. What next?

[R9UKE]

Is your fuel gauge counting the air in the tank and reading full just like every one of my Volvos ever did?

[dollywobbler]

The fuel gauge is entirely random for reasons unknown.

 

If you lower it, fit some decent dampers. It needs them. Badly! Great to see a fresh burst of enthusiasm. I forgot to mention the 'quality' glovebox lock, which can then only be opened if you first open the passenger door. Store your Werthers Originals with care!

[Lacquer Peel]

Does slapping the instrument panel binnacle help? It fixed* the gauges on my RWD Volvos.

[rantingYoof]

Despite many years of progress there's something about a scruffy old Volvo that terrifies other road users and it's a great advantage in traffic.

 

Scruffy and gigantic are a good combination.

 

The Lexus was magnificent for this. The dictatorial first impression, the gradual realisation that the scuffed, dented and slightly rusty-in-places bodywork meant the owner probably cared not if someone approaching them ignored the parked cars cluttering up their side of the road and opted to go for the triple-stacker rather than wait and ended up minus a few trim pieces, the gruff warble of the quad-exit exhausts in a built-up area....people tended to NOPE out of any 1 vs 1 situation.

 

Make the inside a nice place to be, and keep the outside tatty.

 

The V70's seats are amongst the best ever. How easy would it be to bodge them into place? Autoshite it to the max.

[UmBongo]

You're on. It isn't really too bad, just a bit funky smelling.

 

I am going to remove the roof rails and seal up the holes, that will help.

I have gaffa taped the sunroof for now, but may either seal it up permanently, or find some replacement seals.

 

I will replace the dodgy relay (has been fine today) as it seems to 'stick' when it gets hot - is that even a thing?

 

The idle definitely needs looking at, as it stumbles, and the mixture / vacuum advance, as it pinks a bit under acceleration.

 

Gaffa taped the sunroof... :lol:

[Tetleysmooth]

That glovebox bodge should have been a contender for the calendar.

 

Bloody brilliant.

[pandamonium]

It is one of the little touches that make the car as loveable as it is.

 

I am starting to like it a lot!

[HMC]

I like the various giffertastic touches too. Fave is the small antenna/ pole on the front bumper (presumably to judge the front of the car when parking?) Which should deffo be flying a brown autoshite flag.

[pandamonium]

I like the various giffertastic touches too. Fave is the small antenna/ pole on the front bumper (presumably to judge the front of the car when parking?) Which should deffo be flying a brown autoshite flag.

 

These are actually flag poles, one is missing.

[dollywobbler]

Regarding the stumbling, I reckon the injector seals, mentioned by Sigmund Fraud in my original thread, are a likely problem. The idle already seems wound out quite a lot, so I didn't touch it. That's usually a sign that there's an air leak somewhere. To be honest, number one injector I just pulled out by hand! I pushed it back home and the running seemed a little better after that - certainly, squirting WD40 at it stopped that changing the idle speed.

 

When plotting for the MOT, don't forget the rot behind the offside rear wheel - which is why that bit of trim was hanging down. The other side seems rock solid.

[dollywobbler]

I like the various giffertastic touches too. Fave is the small antenna/ pole on the front bumper (presumably to judge the front of the car when parking?) Which should deffo be flying a brown autoshite flag.

 

It may look like a flagpole, but Essexman is right. Apparently he had trouble judging the corners. Why there's a pole fitted to the easiest corner to guess I've no idea...

[purplebargeken]

The 16th Jan then?

[purplebargeken]

That works for me. Shall I bring the pressure washer?

[pandamonium]

It may look like a flagpole, but Essexman is right. Apparently he had trouble judging the corners. Why there's a pole fitted to the easiest corner to guess I've no idea...

 

There is a hole on the other side, where one used to be.

[pandamonium]

That works for me. Shall I bring the pressure washer?

 

No - you can't wash it!

[D Spares & Tyres]

I want to write something rude on it with t cut

[gordonbennet]

 7/9 series weirdo fuel gauge, remove dash and jerry direct wire from where the feed enters the dash circuit and the gauge connection itself plus a fresh earth, that cured mine...or am i thinking of another car, nope sure it was the 9er.

[purplebargeken]

I meant for the inside lol.

[purplebargeken]

Oh well, that is just fucking typical. Phone message left saying I have my spine jab on 16th. 

 

Arse. Fancy a slight reschedule?