Volvo 480 Club Europe

teschio79 wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:40 pm

Hi! Solved?

I'm afraid not. The car is stored since then.

And take care not tighten the belt too much or you'll damage the alternator bearing.
This happen to my car. IT's a wide belt so I don't think it's going to slide loosen it a bit.

I also glued the high beam light, On winter when it was wet it took humidity inside. The glass is not well attached to the body, specially on the bottom, it is easy to remove the glass just with the hands. I used grey silicon to glue it back. http://i66.tinypic.com/34niiba.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com...

..and reinforce other brittle parts. cyanocrylate glue are good to reinforce when there is only small cracks, otherwise I add the fiber glass or just the poliester resin that creates thickness with strength. http://i67.tinypic.com/idx0n9.jpg http://i67.tinypic.com/33dyttl.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/...

Time to repair the dashboard. Someone tried to remove creaking from the dash adding foam into it but without focusing on the source of noise and, you know, to remove the dash and the brittle plastic made the rest. I found three points completely broken without any portion of plastic where to screw t...

I use my 480 turbo '95 as a daily car, commute to work every day 34km with return. Small trips on weekend. After 5.000kms using the car, no problems at all, very pleasant the driving, cornering is very good and relationship between stability and comfort is also high. Fuel consumption around 8,5 lite...

Time also to repair the rear defroster. The electrical system works but the lines have lost its conductivity. I bought a kind of electrical paint with argent made for repairing electrical circuits. It is a bit thick and difficult to spread. I masked the lines and paint the lines with the paint. It w...

Time to seal the rearlamps. The water came in from the rearlamps that had the rubber unglued. The water arrived to the rear right floor from the boot. I have to change also the rubber seal of the glass as a bit of water continues to go in. http://i65.tinypic.com/25iaryo.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/16...

I never heard any problem with conversion from R12 to R134 except the plugs are different and that it is advised to change the o-ring because it is possible that they don't keep the gas for a long time. The other problem is that R12 freeze better. My old saab C900 has the conversion from R12 to R134...

The Swedish Volvo and SAAB tried E85 with several models. It is very popular there. SAAB also offered a car that managed E100. Full ethanol without petrol. Ethanol is much cheaper than petrol in Sweden but they don't arrive to the level of France with half price. The point is that the advantage of h...

Yes, it could harm the engine or other parts of the 480 using a high percentage but it seems that cars from 1995 can cope with 10/15% witouth problems. Our 480 maybe is a bit old for theses stories. :( There is a lot of reading on internet explaining advantages and disadvantages. Don't take it: http...

Have you tried ethanol e85 on any 480? To say it is very popular in France is too much but it is not impossible to find petrol stations with e85 or web pages that sells kits for e85 or customers explaining their experience. I found a customer using 15% of e85 on a 480 without problems. It seems that...

Good tutorial, by the way, with my little experience, I would remove the headlight instead of the top cover as I found difficult to fix it in the right position. It takes a while. On the other hand, the headligh is fixed with 4 screws and it fits perfectly without mistake. http://i66.tinypic.com/mr4...

Another fix was to remove an whisling noise coming from the steering pump.

It was enough to loose a bit the belt. It was too tight forcing the bearing to make the noise. It is a wide belt and with stripes, difficult to see it sliding, even with the aircon switched on.

Yes, the look is not very professional :D :D :D , but it works and you know, when there's no time for good DIY, better this than nothing. Good point, I can add the other filter on top. I was worried but the fan blows air in a similar ammount than without filter. There's also an active filter for car...

Big city, big polution, so time to solve the problem. The spring time forces to use more frequently the ventilation and A/C. As it is impossible to find the original air polen filter, I found a filter with a good size. It comes from a Renault Clio mkII. It fits in the place without removing any part...

On the other side, it was easy to buy those leds in the chinesse shop at 2,5 euros couple