Volvo 480 Club Europe

Wow!

That's some weather you have there. It looks beautiful. Those are great photo's

Matt

I can't see em either so here are the links i got by right clicking on the red crosses and pasting the add displayed into I.E. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4965/683/400/Carscoop%20Volvo%20XC50%20%201.jpg http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4965/683/1600/Carscoop%20Volvo%20XC50%20%205.0.jpg http...

Yes, quite right... I'm not going to post on here as its nothing to do with me at all..

This isn't a post BTW, you are all just imagining it.

Glad to hear you are making progress on your nice looking turbo...

Some good tips to check there, i'm sure they will be usefull for other members.

G'day mate!!

Matt

Steve you are the greatest,

I love the way you always make nice posts with good info that I was not aware of, not everyone has been on forum for 1000 billion years so this is new news to me.

Keep the topics "SPRING"ING up!!


PS i like you Avatar at the mo, its very 480ish.

Your old mate


Matt

Yup as above, they will bend a bit as they are mounted on a metal sheet. Just re-bend the old ones flat!

I've got one if you want to come to plymouth and remove it from the car. Its the type with the green dipstick that don't leak as much oil. Its from a 94 L reg.

Speedo reads 64,000 ish but it is a 480 so speedo may have been changed at some point, ran nice last time i had it going.....

Matt

Hi Welcome to the joys of 480 owning.

If your rear clusters are not cracked you can make them like new yourself several other members have re-vamped them and they look great. It will save you lodsa cash.

Mate that sucks

Specially as it was such a special car too...

Hope you get somethign equally as special to replace it.....

My handbrake is the same, my garage has been saying I need new cables for a couple o years now, when it comes to MOT time, he adjusts it so that the handbrakes work and then they gradually fade over the year. Only a bodge really but saves buying and fitting new cables...

Hello L8ERS! If you're looking for a cheap 480 with leather that runs well give me a bing, I am hopefully buying a S40 from Volcare soon so it will be up for grabs - its had over 3k spent on it, most of it apart from the engine is new and it will come with an optional spares car too in same colour! ...

I would imagine that the stuff itself, in the can is totally legal. As soon as you spray it on your number plates it would not be legal to drive the car on public higways.... If they found out, you could always claim that it must have been put on by one of the previous owners or local anti-speeding ...

The 480 looks very nice mate, nice leather seats too! I like you 7 series it looks very well cared for!

Welcome by the way!

Matt

I ended up buying a 480 (driveable) with the seats still in it. People and scrappies were quoting me £175+ inc delivery for the seats alone. I got lucky on the forum when a member advertised a car for parts, making no mention of its perfect Jaquard Half Leather, i emailed to ask if it had leather,...

Ok all done! Tools Needed, 2x standard 480 jacks, i pry bar, i socket driver, 1 foot long extension. I jacked up the engine from bottom of the gearbox, put the new mount in, then I had to place the second jack in between the subframe and the front of the gearbox and use it to push the engine backwar...

K so i just got the broken gearbox mount out by using the 480 jack and a square of flat wood to lift the gearbox up, undid the two screws and it came out piece of piss easy!! Now i have to get the complete one out of the spares car and fit it which i rekon is gonna b more hassle..... It IS a 19mm nu...

Hehehe I felt the same way for ages, don't forget tho 480's always break every month around pay-day and the 2.0i lump is inherently more reliable than the turbo. You could always go the superchip (google it) route. I think its about £260 and it gives you +8HP!!! WoW! Also its not all about HP. A lo...

Cetus Cetus Cetus, it makes the car look more modern and sporty without resorting to chav wheels.....

I ended up buying a 480 (driveable) with the seats still in it. People and scrappies were quoting me £175+ inc delivery for the seats alone. I got lucky on the forum when a member advertised a car for parts, making no mention of its perfect Jaquard Half Leather, i emailed to ask if it had leather, ...

Use optimax or some other high octane fuel, and then drive it really fast all the time, the computer should realise you are a mentalist running on higher fuel and give you some more power. Does the ECU need to be reset first o wiser ones?

I did the above and it seemed faster.