What did you do to your 850/X70 today???
 

I'm fairly new on this forum, having recently bought the C70, however, I have been on the Classic S/V40 forum for some time and must say find everyone very helpful.

One popular thread on the X40 forum is as the title above. Instead of everyone posting 'I have a problem, how do I solve it' it is more like an old fashioned 'chat down the pub' where folks catch up with what others have been doing. Anyway I will kick off and see how it goes. No rules, just what ever you have done to your car, from a complete engine rebuild to changing a bulb.

Fitted new Volvo plugs, fuel filter and changed the oil and filter. Although the car has full service history - 52,000mls - I do not know for sure what has been done so starting with the basics and going from there. Air cleaner and pollen filter were clean and good, although there was a veritable birds nest of rubbish under the scuttle panel, so all vacuumed and cleaned out like new.

Fitted new front right brake calliper, and new cold air feed pipe, just missed the rain too ☺

Made sure both screws that hold the maf to the airbox were in place

Nothing !!!!

almost never need to do anything :)

Bottom main hose,need to do the rear exhast camshaft oil seal,thank god its the easy one lol.

Removed vacuum lines from air box, used a long bolt and a nut to close off hot air intake to box. Sadly looked at the split in the drivers seat bolster. Tried several wreckers (breakers yards) for a XC egg crate grill. Looked at carbon canister under offside wheel arch and wondered did I really need it...

Stripped rear brakes to find back plates rotten and holed where the shoes sit, shoes worn almost right down and inside of discs severely worn.
What I did was pull a face of despair and a few sweary words then had to get the wallet out for the impending onslaught lol.

Fitted a steering wheel from a later C70,& set off the SRS light as mentioned in my thread asking for help to reset the light.

Dyno'd the car, result of a meager 165 horses. Turns out I have no boost thanks to a split pipe at the bottom of the intercooler. Easy fix, but I'll leave it for a sunnier day.

Discovered the weep-hole at the bottom of the intercooler, and after a quick sear, found its not a leak, but in fact designed to be there!

Adjusted the tailgate catch so no more rattles! Also ratchet strapped the spare wheel and jack down as the original strap broke its spring. No more squeaking from there.

More car stuff planned for tomorrow once I get access to a friends ramp!

Attempted to fix the squeaky aux belt. Removed the tensioner from the broken V70, found that it was broken. Swapped the idler pulley with no change. Took the tensioner of the 850, found the bearing was shot. Used spare idler pulley for tensioner, dropped 8mm allen socket into the engine bay vortex, put everything back together, squeak still present. Curses.

Removed undertray, socket not there. Eventually found socket resting on top of bottom arm, but not before running hand over every oily surface in the engine bay.

My "grain of wheat" bulbs arrived today so I butchered the ashtray and shift light holders. The bulbs are too fat really but they will do until the new slimline ones arrive from China. I've lost the holder for the lighter, which makes me sad, but at least I know what gear I'm in.

I put some diesel in mine.

Noticed some pretty bad wear on the inside edges of the front tyres, so adjusted the tracking today - and sure enough, it had quite a bit of toe-out. Not any more!

Will get two new tyres soon......

Sold it! The phase 1 V70 auto that is........

Successfully repaired the passenger side door mirror. It would go up and down, but even though I could hear the motors whirring there was no side ways movement.

I know how temperamental removing the glass can be, so bought a secondhand one from ebay, with the intention of fitting the replacement, then cutting off the coloured back, remove the glass off of the old one and swap the cover over, ending up with one good mirror in the correct colour. The chances of picking up a sky blue mirror were pretty remote.

Original plan failed miserably, ebay mirror arrived and mirror glass not attached to the motors, chappie said full refund given and keep the mirror. So I now had a spare to play around with. Looked behind the glass and could just see one set of tabs that needed releasing - there are four on a square footprint. Anyway managed to prise the mirror glass off intact - one corner at a time - and found the little motor arms had become detached from the mirror.

Removed my original from the car and managed to prise that glass off, now I knew how to do it. Found one motor arm detached - refitted the arm - applied a little silicone lube to the tabs and gently pressed the glass onto the motor housing. Refitted to car, now working as it should. I now have a spare glass and working motor. Just need to refit the door card, but that can wait.

Proofed the C70 roof today. I had deep cleaned the roof a few weeks ago and removed the algae and black mould spots. When it was completely dry, I noticed there was still some algae deep in the weave of the fabric, so earlier in the week cleaned again with Meguiars All Purpose Cleaner and got it absolutely clean. Masked up the car today and applied Gtechniq Smart Fabric proofing. Now that has dried it is totally invisible, tomorrow, need to open the roof slightly and apply proofing with a paint brush underneath the beads where it closes down on the seals. Attachment: roof drying after applying Gtechniq.

Did a full coolant flush using liqui moly radiator cleaner, like a bubble bath for the cooling system!
Then refilled with Volvo green.

not today but Tuesday gone,..

washed, clayed, paint corrected, polished, waxed, polished glass, treated plastics and spruced wheels and tyres up

a lovely 7hours with a couple 15m breaks and burnt arms/kneck

Thursday gone, replaced aftermarket amp as it died :broken_heart:

Some Pictures of my beading as of 6am today

Replaced the damaged wood trim on the centre console with eBay purchase.

Looks impressive:thumbs_up:

Proofed the roof beads with Gtechniq Smart fabric applied with a small paint brush. Cleaned the rubber seals and treated with Autoglym Vinyl and rubber care, cleaned all the windows and re-fitted the passenger door card. Paint work polishing is next on the list.

The last bastion
 

So I've had this skinny box laying around for a few weeks.

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Thought I should open and dewrinkleise the contents.

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and curved rear defroster blah blah blah glass comes out of hiding

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Not bad from a 1200mmx500mmx100mm box.

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Purrrrrfect stitching and unblemished fabric.

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Rome was built in a year with Marine blue Sonnenland A5.

Sprayed and clear coated wheel centre caps with some eBay 'volvo' centre cap decals from Hong KongAttachment 96166 Real ones are bloody hens teeth or worth silly money.
Don't judge condition of wheels ,that's a job for another day !

Bought a 'flip' style key fob from evil bay too.
Seems all locksmiths bar one were apprehensive about cutting, claims that the blanks are made of sh#%e metal that is a) too hard and blunts the blades and or b) can 'grab' snapping the blank or flinging it across the room. Most flatly refused to cut. Others wanting the cost of replacement blades about 4x cost of fob. The chap that did cut mine didn't seem to care either way.Keep this in mind if your tempted to buy the same.
Fun and games first finding then cutting the chip out of donor keyAttachment 96168


# appears only one photo is up # this photo shows where the chip hides in the key FYI

Looking good and a lovely colour. Will be good to see it fitted, looks quality.:thumbs_up:

PAS full fluid change, only recently found out the fluid pumps out slowly back the return pipe if you left right the wheel with the engine off. Took 1.5l to flush back to green. Steering is definitely lighter after doing this, worth the mess.

Flushed the brake fluid, cheap job and always worth doing on a fresh car, who knows what condition it's in. Mine was actually very good, fresh is better though!

Finally did a gearbox (auto) sump dump 500 miles after a full oil change. The new oil is slightly darker then fresh so I'm keeping an eye on it and will fully change it again if it needs it.

My Volvo loves me today.:rose:

With new fluids everywhere, your Volvo will love you for ever. Keep up the good work. :thumbs_up:

A good interior clean for Puff.

Salut!

Pookie

I forgot to mention the Italian tune up, single figure mpg in 4cs s mode, most satisfying end to the day!

Thinking of buying ebay coilover set for time being

Had creaking steering on nearside. Did'nt know where to look. So got my mobly-mec out.
Quickly diagnosed the top of the strut (bearing?) was the culprit. Instead of moving smoothly, it was jumping.....
So he went for silicone-spray oil by poking the spray tube past the little seal thing.
Result = all quiet....... for now!

Did the rear exhaust camshaft oil seal, easy 20 min job.

Washed, leathered, waxed, black stuff blacked, Windows cleaned, interior tomorrow...😫

I finally got round to fitting my new radiator. The old one was held together at the bottom with a VW Polo window clamp

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and one of the mounting lugs had failed

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leaving the radiator hanging squint

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It all started well enough

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but then it became apparent that every single fixing was going to fight me.

The captive nut on the remaining bracket escaped and I took the headlamp unit out for better access.

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Which didn't help so I had to smash the other mount off.

Finally I got the radiator out

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The new radiator came with two of the six clips needed to mount the intercooler and aircon radiator. None of the original clips were salvaged so I had to raid the scrap V70 for the rest, which wasn't a five minute job.

Eventually I got it all back in, with a CV boot clip on the top hose for now.

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It's slightly galling that the new radiator is invisible after all that effort, at least I don't have to worry about the whole thing falling out. It was a massive palaver to do, not a job I want to repeat in a hurry.

showed it at weston park at retrocarmania

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Swapped out front passenger side bearing/hub as it was beyond shagged. Treated the girl to new air filter and reapplied copper slip to the brake pads as they were a bit squeaky.

Also rear bumper mounting plates turned up today but waiting til i can source a tow bar to do both jobs at the same time.

Ps ref the bearing how much of a **** is it when you realise the only allen key size you dont have is 7mm and cant get the caliper off

When I did the radiator last weekend I found out that there should be an undertray/ air guide. I was passing U-Pull-It yesterday and popped in on the off chance that they might have an 850 in. 850s, like most 90s cars, are now at the point where they have stopped appearing in scrap yards but they did have one in.

Amazingly it had the bit I needed. It also had a set of moulded mats, so I bagged them too. They were dirtier than the undertray and will be getting a damn good scrub before they go in the car.

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Gave the C70 a final polish and buff today. Have already deep cleaned the interior, washed and proofed the hood, clayed, gently compounded, black hole glazed the paintwork and finally today gave her a coat of Poorboys carnauba wax. The only thing to do now is under the bonnet, but that can wait.
Had a little time left so tidied up the fuse box by turning quite a few fuses round so the rating numbers all face the same way. Incidentally all the fuses are genuine Volvo as the numbers are in Volvo font and every fuse has a little smear of silicone grease on the blades.

It was too wet to take her out today, so she will have to wait for a couple of weeks when we go down to Norfolk for a long weekend.

Hey Richard_TD have you got this bit

Gotta love the bottom of your receiver.



Cymraeg, dude,

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just leave the pins in, and unbolt the bracket off, with the caliper still on.



I self consumingly hate the rubbish aftermarket fuses today

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and raided a couple of handfuls from the wrecker last week
and a puller thing.

I don't think I have, although there might be one on the dead V70. Even after looking at the parts diagram I can't quite work out where it goes or what it does, is it worth seeking one out?

Another thing I don't have is any kind of grille for the hole under the number plate. I know such a thing exists but I was wondering if it's omitted on the TDi to maximise air flow to the intercooler.

I'm in two minds whether to replace the dryer. I've done without A/C for the 2 1/2 years I've had the car, but it would be nice to have it working for the sake of £25 and a Kwikfit "no fix no fee" recharge. I'm very close to having everything working on the car so I might do it.

Yeah, that's the top bit of the let's say "funnel" that channels air up
through the radiators, after it enters through the missing honeycomb thing.

So see the tabs in the radiator support panel below each horn
it clips to those then curves forward to the top of the honeycomb thing, yeahhhh.
Go back to the breaker man yeahhhh.
Don't mind me I'm just singing