Volvo 480 Club Europe

The connector-colours must fit, so you'll need to find yourself another unit.
If you get one out of a newer 480 with srs this should be no problem.

hauke

It's a 'normal' turbo, but still nice with the full kit

there is a handfull of 480s in japan.
All imported by the owners.

Hauke

so this seems to be pretty common, got the same problem (or maybe no problem?) on my ES

Isn't the cabling for the footwell-lights included in the cable-harness in the newer 480s?
In the pre-cemIII types you just need to plug the lights in and clip them to the lower side of the dash.

Hauke

looks pretty normal to me for a hausser rear-bumper

Hauke

Since some people don't want to ruin their alloys in winter ;)

Well, xeon-bulbs that can be fitted in normal H4 light exist and are sold.
The problen (at least in Germany) is that they are simply illegal to use on public roads because the lamps aren't build for xenon bulbs and in most cases are missing the obligatory lens cleaning and automatic adjusting


Hauke

It's a special lacquer that looks different from every angle.

hauke

Welcome! 1) have you checked your brake-lights? the light you're describing is the warning for broken bulbs (if every light works, the control-relay might be broken) 3+4) you found the switch for the long range lights. When it's on the beamers should come to life with the full beam. They also should...

Not to sure with this, but in what state are your belt tensioners? Isn't the SRS lamp meant to control them to?
I heard they are quite easy to activate.

Hauke

Have a look at your manual ;)

Afaik the only relevant Lenses are those of the pop-ups which are'nt glued as you have to take them off to change bulbs.
The rest of the lights is not asymmetric and needn't be changed.


hauke

If thats the case, we've just found another difference between celebration and collection.
The collections I've seen got normal PhaseII mirrors.

Hauke

I'ld think you need only the glasses as the rest of the lights schould be the same. Should be no problem to get used ones over here, or maybe Klubertz has some going spare. Hauke Just came to mind, IIRC one of the britsh members got a collection, maybe he still got the continental lenses for the hea...

The manual says th the B18FT 107 has got 175Nm at 4200 rpm max torque. Since my manual is from '89 there's not data 'bout the 2l but some of you should have a newer manual I think ;) The '89 manual has got the data of all motors available at that time, so you should find the data of the 2l in every ...

I've got the 480 with the smallest machine available (B18F 95hp).
If he ever lets me down and i need another i'll think about a turbo, but as long my ES runs fine i'll keep him.
Never had any major problems with the car in seven years and about 95k km.

Hauke

I don't think that there's much knowledge needet, just time and some detectives work to extract all the information on one subject from the forum and put it in one posting.
Lots of work but nice to have when its done

hauke

jipi91 wrote:
If you want to see weird driving, go to Italy...

Or have fun with 'typical' BMW-drivers on the Autobahn (not to mention the Salesmen in ther Passat TDIs)

Hauke

I'm 30, fell in love with the 480 at the age of 11 or 12 got him 7 years ago and still got my first ;)


Hauke