yea just checked all fuel, colant, oil, everything, and its up to standard, i just threw in a fuel pump relay that didnt do much, i tried to bypass the imobilizer, that doesnt do anything, wat else could be the culprit?

 

Is it like just cranking but won't turn over?

 

yea thats wat its doing

 

i tihnk i have come to the conclusion of just using the new t5 as a parts car, thers enough there to make my moneys worth aswell then part the car out as a parts car and then throw the scraps in the scrapper

 

So you basically bought the car for the sole purpose of selling it for parts basically?

I would still just throw the plat motor in the T5 and call it a day.

 

i dont even know how to do that personally and dont know if i want to spend alot of money doign that, on avg wat is a motor swap costing now adays and how long does it take? mind you its only labour becuase they will have both cars , but dont get me wrong i wanted to swap it all over, but the way i'm looking at it now, there has been enough replaced there where i can just swap it into the platinum, and make the platinum better and this way i can restore the platinum

-came with brand new winter tires
-brand new cross drilled rotors + pads
-i need the abs module to work in the plat, that can be replaced
-odd things inside the car i can replace
-it has a brand spanken new ignition coil that i wanted to replace in the plat
- i can replace the dented fender ( who cares if its a diff colour i may do the other side to match )


THEN i can still make money on it, i mean a scrap yard offered me 500$ to take the car today AND that is with everything i can take out except the right fender( because they obv dont know it has that stuff), soo i'm basically makeing part of my money back and even if that i can still sell parts to local ppl cuz ppl need these parts


but i need it to sit for a bit idunno wat i'm gunna do yet (n)

 

Good point. I thought you had mentioned that the frame may have been bent slightly or something like that. I don't know. Yeah, I would do that then. A lot less work for a running car.

 

yea thats wat i've decided on as of this night i'm gunna swap it all over to the platinum, and nothing to the frame has changed however for some reason everything still leans to my driver side like its all even but somewhere on the line involving the radiator core support, everything is still a bit shifted off, but i'll just need some time with that


but i looked at it this way i would be spending countless hours, moving around my video deck, bluetooth adapter, car alarm, my amp/cables, everything so i might aswell jsut take the amazign stuff off the t5 and plop it on the plat so wish me luck guys

 

Did you have fuel and spark on the T5?

 

how can i check? i dont have a fuel pressure guage or anything and wats the safest way to test for spark?


AND my car leans because of my driver side strut, so thers another thing i'm replacing the struts in the car from the t5 aswell

 

There's a bleeder valve at the end of the fuel rail, you could always see if you have fuel that way. Unhook the coil line from the rotor cap and place against the motor and then have someone crank the car and see if there's a spark there.

 

ahh ok i might not bother with it anymore! my dad said hes gunna help me out and we r like 85% gunna swap the motor, hes gunna talk to some guys first and see wat he can do then if all elses fails, engine swap here we come had a big discussion with him on it, so wish us luck! i'll let u know how it comes along

 

quick random question, is there such thing as a "performance" tranny for the 850? the guy i bought my swappable car from told me it had that, didnt realy believe anything but just wondering if its at all possible, has "power shifting"??

 

uhhhhh, never heard of that before. The only performance transmission I know of is a manual transmission

 

alrite thought so lmao, but i second thought it and was like hmm could be a possibility

 

What a crock. haha. So you guys are going for the motor swap huh? Bring the T5 back to life? Should be a fun project.

 

yea its leaing towards that way tommorow i'm having 2 volvo mechanics come over to my house and r gunna have a look at the car to see wats up and wel make our decision from there ( dont tihn ki'm paying up the ***, it helps wen my dad knows people ) lmao so yea well see how it goes and i'll keep you guys posted!

 

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