Volvo 480 Club Europe

Posted: **Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:00 pm**

Hello everyone!

I spoke to a fellow club member last night about the rear cluster situation.

The poor quality/ridiculous prices of rear clusters was what I agreed to address somehow!

I have just written to Hella direct.I asked them for prices per unit IF we agreed to buy a minimum of 5 sets.I didnt put this to the club first as bugger all may come of it.

Someone has told me that Volvo has the rights to sell them exclusively.Can anybody verbally verify this???

Hope to get some joy from someone on this!

Steve

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:15 am**

good luck! I emailed Hella a while back with no joy.

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:17 pm**

I think although Hella made them volvo own the patent/copyright and therefore the right to charge whatever they want!

Posted: **Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:26 pm**

Nice one for trying Groomus.....keep my fingers crossed.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:56 pm**

nice one!

look forward to hearing about this!

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:38 pm**

Nope,tried and failed!

Why do they do this.Volvo are just plain fucking greedy...

Bunsiness huh

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:46 pm**

But, you all know how parts are only sold @ volvo for 10 yrs after the end of production, or they say they only make them for 10yrs, what prevents Hella selling after the end of the 10 "contract" ?

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:30 pm**

what would be good, is if you could fabricate them 'yourself' from a mould of some description, and make it out of a proper material, one that doesn't perish in UV light...

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:56 pm**

@ Sophie Yeah I flippin well hope they do n all.

@Suddy Yeah I wonder which material would be suitable,Perspex and blow torch anyone?Im just not clued up enough for this one!

Any ideas anybody??

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:58 am**

maybe we could settle a group buy at volvo?

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:46 pm**

I think contacting Volvo on group buy's would be a good idea full stop. I did contact Volvo about rear light clusters and a group buy before....twce actually, but alas, no return correspondance!

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:37 pm**

I doubt Volvo would be interested themselves (there trying to erase the 400 series from the history books!) but a main dealer might be willing to help out with a discount.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:23 pm**

I don't see why then, if they're going to be like that,they wouldn't be more co-operative? Surely we'd be doing them a favour! Don't see what the problem is with Volvo...tossers!

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:36 pm**

Dan the 480 Man wrote: Don't see what the problem is with Volvo...tossers!

Theres probably a dealer out there willing to help. Just not the Aberdeen one. Its shite!

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:39 am**

unless you buy a 40 k car and talk with marbles in your mouth, volvo do not give a toss , really, they dont! even Sweden refuse to respond to letters, e mails etc, if they ever start building crap cars then the company will fall on its ass, as customer service is none existant and its purely the product that keeps em afloat, BUT the four letter F word own em now so give it a couple of years, they stole the engine off the t5 and the s40 chassis now they can donate shiteness in return

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:41 am**

well, i have a good thinking about sweden volvo, i emiled them twice and always got a pozitive respond. i think i mailed directly to customer suport.
one mail was for a big S80 poster at the time the car was released and the other was for a CVT service manual for serries 3xx. got them both after a week or so, free of charge.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:08 pm**

k999ste wrote:unless you buy a 40 k car and talk with marbles in your mouth, volvo do not give a toss , really, they dont! even Sweden refuse to respond to letters, e mails etc, if they ever start building crap cars then the company will fall on its ass, as customer service is none existant and its purely the product that keeps em afloat, BUT the four letter F word own em now so give it a couple of years, they stole the engine off the t5 and the s40 chassis now they can donate shiteness in return

Nothing wrong with Ford...

As for Volvo I've found most of my experiences with Volvo pretty good. The dealer in Aberdeen is shit although the parts department have usually been helpful enough. I remember writing to Volvo UK several times when I was a kid and always getting a positive response. Often with lots of goodies/press releases thrown in.

They probably show less interest now as the 400 series is no longer in production but I bet if you percivered (sp) you'd get somewhere.

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:55 pm**

Final updateus!

Whoever said they were sold strictly under licence was right,bugger!

Heres what Hella UK had to say -:

hella wrote: Dear Mr Groomus (;-))
Unfortunately we made these rear lamps for the manufacturer of the vehicle under licence.This means that they are tied to Volvo and you would have to go to them to make a purchase. We did have the ability to sell the
lenses only on the aftermarket but they have been deleted from our range
for some time.

Sorry I couldn't have been more help.

Mit freundlichen (ooer!!!) GrÃ¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½en / Best regards

Hella UK Ltd
Technical Department
Wildmere Industrial Estate, Banbury, Oxon
OX16 3JU. United Kingdom
www.hella.com

Im gonna write to Barry Took now,and my MP!!

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:24 pm**

Maybe start an online petition on the governments website?

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:34 pm**

Volvo 480 Club Europe

Groomus on the case with the cluster situation!

Groomus on the case with the cluster situation!

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