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May 22nd, 2018, 09:06 | #11 |
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Rear brake lights (quaintly called high level) were not fitted to either early 740 saloons (1985 & 1986 model years) nor 1986 - model/first year estates*.
Jon. *700 estates (740/760) were launched for the same model year (i.e 1986). |
May 22nd, 2018, 09:45 | #12 |
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Crikey - Three different silvers/greys! I think i spotted three different blues as well. Almost as if Volvo were hedging their bets on the colours, give it a year or so and retain the popular choices, delete the rest and add a couple more as "compensation".
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Thankfully we don't call them "ChiMSL" in this country! It's a USA acronym of sorts standing for Central High Mounted Stop Light - either way it's a mouthful!
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May 22nd, 2018, 09:57 | #14 |
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740/760 estate launch colours.
Again a Pdf (!), 11 colours in the estate palette but only one solid colour available on the 765 - Black to special order.
I've scanned these images from my literature/brochure collection so they're old and the printing process is not always faithful to the true colour. Example being 200 Blue Metallic, the colour is actually lighter than depicted being more akin to Mercedes Pearl Blue Metallic - or the Rover 75 metallic blue (got that brochure somewhere). Not all the colours were available on the 745GL for example - only 130 Silver (my car) or 402 Blue Green. And you could only have one solid on the GLE (019 Black) and one metallic was excluded - 214 Dark Grey. There are a number of other factors that would have determined colour availability and one being dealer orders to the concessionaire. Jon. |
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Another approach is to install for example VueScan. When I had my scanning problem I found that on my system VueScan worked better than the Epson driver. |
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May 22nd, 2018, 10:30 | #16 |
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Appreciate the post Stephen, my scanner worked fine (Canon printer/scanner) until the update, either an automatic update by Microsoft or Lenovo - converts everything I now scan into a Pdf.
I guess Microsoft ! I try a few options as you suggest. Jon. |
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If you go into the settings of your scanner on your PC Jon, you should be able to set it to "Save image as..." then select "JPEG file (.jpg)" which should make it possible to upload it as a "normal" photo.
I doubt it will make much difference to the colour of the images, another one that's a bit "off" is Blue-Green which in reality is a slightly darker version of Honda Malachite Green but looks almost black on my screen.
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Blue Green
My newly acquired 745 turbo is blue green metallic. It had the chequered half leather seats in beige, but they were knackered so I have replaced them with Caramac coloured 760 leather seats. I also have the colours for the 760 which I'll post later.
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