MOTOR-TALK

Author: 00c12f

  • C70 as an everyday car?

    Hello, a V50 would certainly be the more reasonable choice as the successor of my S60. But somehow I always feel like a convertible. So I would be interested in your experiences with the C70 as an everyday car. I also created a survey on this in my blog. My favorite is – of course – the C70, which would only be possible for me as a company car with the 2.0D machine. Therefore, I would be interested in what experiences you have made with such a car as an everyday car. Who drives a convertible as a first car, who has said goodbye to the convertible again to what “reasonable”? How do you solve larger transports, with trailers or is a larger car/transporter rented? How often do you drive openly, at every opportunity also in the morning, or only occasionally on a Sunday trip? Greeting, Olli

  • V90 or XC90 ?

    Hello, have both looked at me, and don’t know which one it should be !? I both like, and it should become an inscription D5. Against the XC90 speak for me pers. that nevertheless considerably higher own weight (about 500kg more than the V90 – with the same engine/automatic I also think of the longevity), and the rear flap which nevertheless rises very high (garage cover). Through the flatter rear window, the higher goes, than with a just falling tail. Inside I find both in approximately the same, the XC has more charging volume, but that is for me pers. secondary. Inscription pleases me, however, the only disadvantage (jammering at a high level) that this one has the chrome strip on the side in half height. and the chrome package what can be ordered has the leist on the threshold, respectively Vo + hi better created (where I find this nicer). Seats I would take the standard, the sports seat has not been pleasant for me. In addition, I heard of problems about it, resp. 😉 I did not want to say thank you in one time.

  • V60 R-Design driver

    Hello, since I still could not quite decide which moose the next one could be, I turn to the R-Design driver. After many now certainly several tardy kilometers, I would like to ask you for your experiences, how satisfied you are with the R-Design suspension. When do you especially enjoy “the hard chassis” and if you are quite honest, when did you ever have Schei…. roared, because you have already shot the hardness in the spine, e.g. on cobblestones, car banh cross joints, bridge crosscarriers with 160 things or even deep-lying channel covers with 40 kilometers. Or does it drive differently with 4 people and a few suitcases inside ? Thanks for your experiences and a nice weekend !

  • XC60 dates – order, confirmation, date of construction, LT at model change

    Since the end of April/ beginning of May there is the slightly changed XC60 with price list and announcement. Specifically I have a date question regarding model year. I ordered my new car in February. I received a desired delivery date from the leasing in KW 24, i.e. 11.- 15 June, because my old contract expires at the end of June. Now the “price question” is then a model year 2012 (i.e. D3) or already a model year 2013 (i.e. D4). Or the other way around: When will the new models be built? Are there fixed dates, or is that sliding ( according to the motto D3 is “all”, next car is a D4)? Who can explain this to me on my data? Thanks Walter

  • Switching bushings / shiftbars

    Since the first gear has to be “appealed” several times, which is particularly annoying for the backman in urban traffic :-), and it sometimes scrolls in the gear from the 1st to the 2nd gear, I think that the gear boxes have their best time behind them. Clutch and taker cylinders are ok anyway. The car, a 2.0, has only 133,000 down and is not a city car. Yesterday I looked (without jacking) briefly on the gear bar: 1 jack in front of the gear box 1 jack in half way of the gear bar Are there any more sockets that could hide under covers in the gear lever area? If yes, go from above or from below? Thank you and greetings

  • Hood does not open

    Hello dear S/V40 community! Having been a silent reader for 3 years now and been a happy V40 owner for 2 and a half years (also because of the very informative purchase advice in this forum), I now have a problem myself: I wanted to refill disc wipers and see here: bonnet unlocking defective – i.e. the unlocking in the driver’s footroom does not bring any resistance and therefore the hood does not open. However, after I cannot pull the rope into the passenger compartment, I hope that only the reset mechanism is jammed and the rope is not torn. Found in the forum this sketch: http://www.motor-talk.de/…/Attachment.html?attachmentId=122033 , however lt. Description for BJ 98. Can someone who also owns a Ph2 tell me if something has changed at the construction (through the grill looks quite similar) and above all, I have to move the direction of the lever, which expresses the engine hood up, for BJ 98. Can someone who also possess a Ph2 have something changed at the construction (by the grill looks quite similar) and above, I have to the direction I have to move towards the hood?

  • Motor electronic lamp Burnt

    Hi people I had just taken my day before yesterday V40 out of the workshop because the petrol filter was replaced due to rusting…more not. So today the warning light for the electronic engine regulation goes on and stays on. In the service book was also something of disturbed fuel system but it otherwise runs very well, except that it now also starts badly (with slightly gas he comes faster. has anyone of you had such a thing before? in the service book is only “Bring me Volvo” Ds, Gruss Olly

  • Gas plant in Volvo 850 !!!SUPPORTED!!!

    Hi, I drive a Volvo 850 with a KME car gas system. I wanted to use another one now because the engine is gone; and that’s the one from the V70I (which is already lying here). I had the following problem because of the engine control, because the V70 engine has a variable camshaft control: As in another block already described, I would have to make the whole cable salad new, stop because of this camshaft control, and then I decided to take the cylinder block and its piston out of the V70 and make the rest, i.e. cylinder head with camshaft and all the stuff, again on top of it. Why do I do that exactly like that, is described in another post. I have now, however, the one question, namely, how to deal with the gas system??? Can I just remove the cylinder head above or fly it all around my ears. Someone also told me that there is a safety device on a component of the gas system, with which I can already screw around at the front. I can do the engine conversion with one who knows well, however, if I don’t need to drive the gas systems.

  • Heating spins

    Hello my good old moose tries to make me crazy I drive a 09/94 lw with climate autumatik two weeks ago the blower started to start and go out at medium setting, after switching off the engine then nothing more went on. Three days later it worked perfectly, after that again total failure when pressing the ignition one hears from time to time a plong from the against the blower. From time to time also flickering at the service line of the heater the light for circulating air or climate. Exchange of the blower resistance was unsuccessful. Can someone please help me?

  • Windscreen wiper back!

    Hello! I need your help. My Lupo has the following problem. The windscreen wiper in the rear runs through completely without a break, so no interval. The error occurs immediately when the ignition is on and cannot be stopped. It has already been changed: wiper motor in the rear complete new, wiper lever in the front complete (Febi) new and also the relay no. 19 under the fuse box. Only by pulling the fuse (15A) the engine stops at the rear. At the front the wiper goes very well in all positions. However, I noticed something funny as soon as the ignition is on and the wiper in the rear runs, the lever pushes for the water spray function, immediately the wiper in the front runs equally on continuous operation and can no longer be stopped. After I turn off the ignition, everything is normal at the front again, just not at the back. To the Lupo, it is a 1.0 with AUC engine, Bj11/2000. I know what it can be, there is still a relay? or do I have the luck that a new part is broken?