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  • Honda Jazz GE (2009) – Radio exchange for Android radio?

    Now that I have repeatedly used my Sche***** radio code (for a short period of time I have disconnected the battery) I decided to replace the radio with an Android radio. At Amazon and eBay there are various offers but I ask if someone has already made such a conversion and possibly has tips and, on the other hand, if someone can recommend a specific offer? Here is an example: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B091YWMKC4

  • Honda Jazz clutch defect after 50T km

    I think about buying a 2009 Honda Jazz 1.4 with about 66T km. According to the seller, the clutch was changed at about 53T km. That sounds very suspicious to me. I have never heard that a clutch gives up the mind so early and that makes me skeptical. According to the seller, it is a retired vehicle and thus the early clutch damage explains itself. There are also some paint damage outside, which would not be so important to me. However, I only have to be technically reliable. Then I ask myself how much I have to torture the car so that the clutch gives up the mind so early and what kind of liberating damage does the car have to do with it. Or can this happen already? Cost he would be about 4,500. I am grateful for any help!

  • Syn Fuels – where do I get this?

    Moin, it has been known for some time now that synthetic diesel fuels and kerosene are much cleaner than conventional fuels. On television there were some promising TV shows. For me, such fuels are a good way to bridge the time to electric mobility and hydrogen, i.e. for the next 10 years – especially to be on the road in the city. I can’t find such offers here in my surroundings around Bonn, the cleverly refueling app doesn’t say anything about it.

  • Superplus – what a mess in the carburetor!

    So far, I thought Superplus was the longest-lasting type of petrol. Now my outboard engine didn’t start, which has been refuelled exclusively with Superplus since 2011. Carburettor opened and see here: Gammel everywhere and a kind of jelly in the float chamber. The engine was rarely used, about an hour per year (is a pure auxiliary motor and therefore has always completed only short operations). Over the summer it was attached to the boat, salt water was often nearby, but did not come into contact with the engine for long periods of time. Externally it looks like it was peeled out of the egg. Over the winter it hung in a dry garage. Since the manufacturer did not provide an easy way to release fuel from the carburettor, after use only the gas tap was closed and maintained until the engine went out of its own accord. How can I avoid it in the future by another type of petrol or certain additives or other handling?

  • Question about mobile (wall) box or charging cable

    Don’t expect a Twingo ZE fand this one! Too stupid or not yet in here!? Did I have the wallbox installed with 22kw (I don’t think this is regulated at 16). Everything toppi only I have a question about the mobile charging cable. 11 and 22kw are offered. Because I often want to be dependent on the public charging stations I want to get a mobile charging part with a 32 ampere plug. Plug is available in the 2 residence and I tend for this because I don’t want to buy a wallbox. There are offers from 399 Euro to 1200 Euro. What do I have to pay attention to? Do not need a frill with app function should only charge or save the battery as quickly as possible. The most expensive model comes from a Swiss company up to cheap. What would you recommend me? Would you like me to invest only every 4 weeks there is no fortune. Bzw. Does this have something that is compatible with my car? As said, I’m new here and unfortunately have no experience with it. Grus Merry72

  • V40 1.9 D, BJ 2003

    Hello dear Volvo-Freaks I am looking for a reliable, economical combination, which nevertheless brings a certain degree of comfort, as I mostly drive long distances (about 40km to work) and I came across the following offer:http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeug/showDetails.html?id=163653073 What do you say about this? Is the price realistic? Does the timing belt count for the 90,000 inspection? Does anything else affect you (positive/negative)? The machine should be great after what I read! Thanks for your help!

  • Refuelling problems

    Hello, I had trouble refueling the V40 for the first time today. I plugged in the pump gun as usual, but this stopped three or four times directly again. That happens once in a while and I had always pushed it on the pump gun. I then pulled it out completely and put it back in again. Now what was different than usual: In this process, however, a small amount of diesel (about a small coffee cup full) came to me – felt it came out under the tank inlet, at least not out of the gun. After that, I pressed the gun myself first and then also went “automatic refueling”. In the aftermath, I noticed that the whole “tank inlet” had quite a nice game, but can’t remember by the best will whether it was always like that. Funny it comes to me. In the attachment there are two photos. One shows something I suspect to be a hole and the other shows where the diesel was when it came to me. But the photo is only 20km later after the tank was made. Did you have a tank column? Did you have a tank?

  • Change coolant. Interval predetermined?

    In the specialist press, it is often recommended to change the coolant after about 4-6 years, since the additives may be used, even if the frost protection is still available. Is there a service interval on the part of Volvo or is the coolant mostly exchanged with the timing belt after 10 years? Have you already gained experience? Our Volvo is a 2014 T2.

  • Spare parts list online?

    Hello together, so slowly my V has become home, we enjoy every common kilometer and I am still very happy about my choice. Here I have read pretty much all the posts and am still positively surprised by the tone of the handling, I know this from various motorcycle forums unfortunately quite differently …. But now to my concern: Is there a page or an electronic part catalog, such with explosion drawings etc? I know this for my BMW motorcycles, realoem.com, where all the item numbers, zT prices and above all the drawings as screwdriving aid or also with the MB-ETK. I have already seen here from time to time to the Volvo article numbers, but unfortunately no link that helped me. Is there any such thing really only Volvo internal or also freely available? Thank you in advance.

  • Reactions to the Phaeton?

    Dear Phaeton friends, I appreciate Phaeton driver, after I’m about 4 years of car rental, I’m getting to the point, because I want to buy a car. Preferably my dream car, a VW Phaeton. About the landlord I’m mostly Passat, Mondeo – and on vacation I’ve already driven Mercedes. The Phaeton is no longer available as a rental car. I drove it last over Europcar. But that should have been already 4 years ago. With Hertz I’ve been driving now almost 4 years and got there for my last Innland vacation again a Merceses. S320, blue efficiency. The resonance was enormous. Enormously negative. Not even by customers, since I had mostly, actually always parked in a second row. Employees sometimes asked me if I had a new car. Everything was still good. But neighbors – business as private – and other traffic participants just didn’t give me a good feeling. Neid and hostility. Anyway, I don’t want to park constantly with my customers. For this I don’t have any time. And the forum regrets in the first line of the company.