Volvo 480 Club Europe

Hello 480 owners!

Yesterday, My Father and I bought a 1989 Volvo 480 ES for cheap money, and I am pretty impressed of it! Nice handling, it just stays good on the road, and the suspension is hard, but not uncomfortable. Great car with a lot of gadgets, even my brother ,who usually hates Volvo, wants a 280 turbo now...

Here are some pics, though shot in darkness and in low quality:







-Søren Hammer, Denmark

Hello mate!

48o will impressed you a lot of times. Sometimes not very nice

But don't worry about it now and enjoy fun of driving this car!

Welcome, hope you continue to enjoy your 480

Sure, this car is a special piece of engineering!

As one of the 103 registered 480's in Denmark, it is truly a rare sight over here, and it sure gets a lot of attention by others in the traffic. I think this is the only 480 in my city (the 5th largest city in Denmark!)

Oh, just a quick question: Does the engine have a timing belt, or is it driven by a chain?

welcome!

Hello

Thank you all!

Just polished the car today, and it shines, no rust anywhere to be found, all of the electronics are working except a couple of blown lamps (That is what I call impressive for a 21 year old car!) and it has ABS and servo steering. I got a good car compared to the amount of money spend on buying the thing

-Søren

It looks super clean for the age.....AND everything works!! Nice find!!!
I think some more pictures of her all shiney and in day light will be nice

nice car

I guess, that your car have about 195ooo km on the odometer

Rachel wrote:It looks super clean for the age.....AND everything works!! Nice find!!!
I think some more pictures of her all shiney and in day light will be nice

I will upload more pics in the weekend

bigdickbuster wrote:I guess, that your car have about 195ooo km on the odometer

Well guessed, she has 194.000 km on the clock

New pictures in the sunshine



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Congratulations! Nice condition You have B18E engine. It's very good Lucky guy!

bigdickbuster wrote:Congratulations! Nice condition You have B18E engine. It's very good Lucky guy!

Hehe thanks, the B18E has indeed a nice pull and it really can accelerate quite nicely

Do something with the rear lights, and car will looks like new

I saw a tip on the forum. I will paste link to the topic. If i will find it

bigdickbuster wrote:Do something with the rear lights, and car will looks like new

I saw a tip on the forum. I will paste link to the topic. If i will find it

I have been looking for a way of lacquering the rear lights, but have been unsuccessful so far... I just can't do it without the lacquer making large drops on the surface

Nice condition! Damn rear lights though such a shame they all go that way. As a very temporay fix rub some oil on them...brings out the shine, although I have never tried on ones that faded. I have used old engine oil, olive oil and have heard of baby oil being used too!

Any plans for it??

Hammer480 wrote:
I have been looking for a way of lacquering the rear lights, but have been unsuccessful so far... I just can't do it without the lacquer making large drops on the surface

Paintcoat.... It's some solution. But you can make polishing with using sandpaper. Use paper 200, then 500, next 1000 and 2000. For the finishing use polishing paste - the same as for the car paint Usually it gives much better result, than lacquering!

bigdickbuster wrote:

Hammer480 wrote:
I have been looking for a way of lacquering the rear lights, but have been unsuccessful so far... I just can't do it without the lacquer making large drops on the surface

Paintcoat.... It's some solution. But you can make polishing with using sandpaper. Use paper 200, then 500, next 1000 and 2000. For the finishing use polishing paste - the same as for the car paint Usually it gives much better result, than lacquering!

Thank you for the advice! Will try that