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Originally Posted by rspi
(Post 310564)
Not my car but another 850. Repaired 2 heated seats. Hurrah!!!
How does one simply fix a heated seat ? |
Originally Posted by predxen
(Post 335853)
I am on the final stages of taking the cam cover/head off of my Volvo 850, and doing the works on it, but cash is a bit sparse, since i just spent 1700 cash on the car. i am planning on doing:
-PCV System/oil trap -Plugs, Wires, Cap and Rotor -Water Pump -Oil Change -Coolant Change -Tranny fluid and filter change -Timing belt. -Hydraulic Lifters -Valve stem Seals -Clean carbon from all valves -Send the fuel injectors off to be cleaned. -Repair/replace the burnt exhuast valve on cylinder #3 -I may also do pistons. rings, and aftermarket H-Beam Rods. But this is not likely, because i don't have the cash. I may want to mention that the car has 180,000 miles on it, but the odometer is broken, but ti does have 162 PSI on all cylinders. well, 0 on the one with a burnt exhaust valve, but that will be fixed. |
Originally Posted by predxen
(Post 335859)
How does one simply fix a heated seat ?
One had a broken wire in the pad and the other had the thermostat unplugged. |
Forever Blacked a couple of roof rail strips and installed them.
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Originally Posted by rspi
(Post 335865)
What year model and type 850 is this?
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Today i pulled the head off my car to find that an exhaust valve on cylinder #3 indeed had a huge hole in it. about a 7 by 2 mm burn, there was also so ton of carbon on the head. probably from the huge intake leak, bypassing the MAF and every other sensor there is on the intake. so the car had no idea how much air it was getting, so it probably defaulted rich...Super Rich.
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i yelled at it, but couldn't hear myself..oh yes that's why they exhaust went from a bit grumble to a load screaming, will tomorrow morning see what the damage is....
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Took it to the body shop. wife hit a deer (she's fine, but don't think the deer is). $1742
for a hood, fender, headlight/turnlight and grille from junkyard and paint to match . Can't find a parts car of the same color that I could drive home and "pick" to do the job myself. I can get an "off color" one for $850 but the cost of towing it home and getting a paint job makes the shop's price reasonable. If I had storage for a "picker" to use for future parts I might reconsider, but I don't. 1999 v70 glt, runs great, rides great, many new parts, great interior, was a great exterior, 124k, wife loves the car,... it's a keeper. |
After a few previous days of significant doings for my car, driving round in search of offerings to the maintenance gods, today was only incidental.
Unplugged the 12v adapter. Felt hot even though I had not used it since plugging it in a couple of days earlier. Checked for coolant leak. Nothing. :eek:Curious, because it was leaking in the days before--sufficient to get me to e-mail mechanics for a repair estimate, also bought anti-freeze to refill it. Manual refuses to disclose the capacity. :( Reset clock—was a couple minutes slow. |
Not exactly today, but on Nov 26th I spanked a deer in the butt and caused minor damage on my host mother's 2007 Camry. A $500 collision deductible for a $2000 bill at the body shop:(.
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I replaced an exhaust valve, now am waiting on money for gaskets, a oil trap, and a timing belt. around 250$
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I did a heck of a lot of research on this forum about my coolant leak. I had drawn the conclusion that it was leaking owing to overpressure, which would explain why it only leaked after long trips. The simple solution according to the forum was to replace the radiator cap, the pressure valve for which presumably had gone bad. Big problem, no radiator cap! A mechanic I spoke with said my car ‘has a closed system,’ which is supposed to explain the absence of such a vital component. :confused:
So today I fell back on replacing what the manual calls the ‘coolant reservoir,’ and the mechanic calls an ‘expansion tank.’ They allowed me to watch—always fascinating. :D The leak seemed to be at the joint to the larger of 2 hoses. In my book, a new $1 clamp ought to have sufficed, but they proceeded to disconnect the old reservoir and swap it out for the new one I had ordered earlier. I was appalled at the easy access, disconnect and removal. Suspected I could have done it myself. Anyone could. I was charged $57 for 30min labour, yet they didn’t do an expansion test. Earlier I rode my bicycle to buy the high-speed oil filter at the local dealer. The parts man was having trouble with his computer, which delayed me. When I got out, my bike had been stolen. Two of the mechanics, whom I had made friends with from having been there so much, were washing a car nearby when I arrived, and I greeted them. One was still there when I came out, and I asked him, ‘Did someone move my bike?’ He said he saw a guy get on it and ride away, explaining, ‘I thought he was with you.’ My roommate later opened the box and I happened to notice the o-ring was missing. Have to go back for that tomorrow. :rolleyes: My car had better appreciate the hell out of that filter; it was the most expensive ever. :mad: |
Car developed an alarming problem yesterday. Symptom was an abrupt change from a smoothly running engine to a clunky sound/feel. :( My guess was cylinder related. The dashboard puter problem readout did not have any comment, but it is not in my nature to disregard that sort of thing and hope for the best, so I took it home (i.e., the local mechanic) for a diagnosis ($100).
This morning the report was #3 cylinder coil needs replacement. I set about getting estimates from the selection of Volvo mechanix. I didn’t want the shop it was in to do the work because their estimate is usually quite lofty. But just as I was about to leave, the clerk handed me a document with their estimate, and at $153 it was very near the other shops, which astonished me as the figure I had seen earlier in e-mails from him was $234. This fellow expresses himself so poorly that he had me utterly confused, and I told him they lost my business because of it. :rolleyes: If I had clearly understood it was $153, I would have told them to repair it. He said that the diagnosis included temporarily replacing the busted cylinder coil with a used, but serviceable, one they had in the shop, and that they had just left that one in. ;) He said I could have it at no charge, but they could obviously not guarantee how long it would last. Car ran fine. :D Incidentally, the warranty company denied my claim for this repair (when I was going to have it done) because my policy ‘only covers the powertrain.’ That what? How much more ‘power’ related can a part be than the cylinder/spark plug/cylinder coil element? :mad: |
Coil on plug (COP) replacement is a few minute job, easily done @ home!
I order my COPs on line, cheaper than auto parts store & dealer/mechanics! Caution: if 1 COP goes bad, they are all the same age, the others will fail also! |
Wanted to get my radio out to check power antenna wiring, but don't have the special inserts to get the aftermarket radio out...:(
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Installed my new drivers side lower eyebrow trim piece. I smashed the other one on someone's tow hitch. The new (jy) one was not built for wiper blades so I had to cut the hole and notch in it. PITB
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Try www.cyberguys.com for tool.
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Originally Posted by MSGTUSMC
(Post 336822)
Caution: if 1 COP [coil on plug] goes bad, they are all the same age, the others will fail also!
Of course, everything under the sun fails, even pyramids, given time. So technically, you are quite correct. My experience has been to put many hundreds of miles on it since the #3 cylinder coil failure. And there has been nary a peep out of it (replaced with used) nor its brethren. A failure of this part is also not catastro-phobic, and can be driven onward to repair. As a soldier I witnessed an appalling amount of waste owing to this sort of thinking. Speaking historically, armies must be prone to it, because many of the cities of Europe originally formed from people scrounging a living off the waste of legions, clustering round their castrae. I remember seeing footage of Vietnamese rummaging through vast US dumps during the war. No doubt much of it was perfectly serviceable and entered the Viet economy. Being ecological minded, I am troubled by the trend to replace over repair. :( Where would MacGyver be if he had always to await delivery of new components? |
Changed oil and filter, wash wax.
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On friday, I installed my custom poly endlinks and it was a great upgrade from the stock ones
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