What is with the fender well cover being riveted onto the body. I guess I must drill out the rivets if I want to remove the cover.

Then what? Rivet it back in place or some other kind of car body attachments?

2002 S60 AWD

 

Yep, drill them out and rivet it back after.

 

Thanks

Seems labor intensive and I may think about another method to connect it. Never had a car that had rivets holding that cover.

Replaced a strut on my sons car yesterday and I had the plastic wheel well cover off his car in about 1 minute.

The 07 V50 has Torx heads holding the cover onto the body and the 02 S60 has rivets. Did someone bend the ear of the engineers on their idea of using rivets?

 

It's not that big of a deal. They might have done it because there aren't many instances where you need to remove it. Are you replacing the siren?

 

I was talking with someone that replaced their lower control arm and like me, had to do it from jack stands. He said that removing that fender well cover made it easier to loosen / remove parts.

I just ate my breakfast and feel ill from what I am watching. I am watching a guy do a PCV replacement. I know that the forum has said other cars have the same system but I've never owned such a car.

I'm starting to feel sorry I didn't push my wife into the Subbie instead of another new to us 2007 V50. Now we have two cars that are seemingly overly labor intensive to change parts that in my experience have always been a quick replacement on my cars.

Currently neither of our Volvo's have any indication of PCV problems but it is only a matter of time.

Sorry ---- I was ranting a bit.

 

I have no idea what removing the wheel well liner has to do with replacing a control arm, doing it on jackstands or not.

 

Ha! You are correct.

I just went to a video of a mechanic doing it and he only removed the skid plate. I could swear that I saw a mechanic saying that along with the skid plate he removed the wheel well cover.

Maybe I am thinking of the people that do the AC clutch bread clip short term fix? They go through the wheel well.

Is the PCV replacement easier than what I am thinking? I know for sure that the IPD kit costs a lot more than the PCV valves that screw into the engines.

 

It's certainly more work than a PCV valve, but not terrible in my opinion. Of course, I've done many do I can do them pretty quickly. And I don't know your mechanical ability.

 

The first engine I ever changed on my own was at 16 on a 1964 P544. Piece of cake.

I've replaced Jaguar engines on my own and many things in between.

In 1974 on a cross country trip our band bus dropped a valve and pierced a piston on our 1959 GMC bus. Sitting in a parking lot in Michigan City, Indiana I replaced the piston (back order took a month for an over sized piston to arrive). I pulled the head, sent it out for a head job and replaced it all while living in the bus. It was more like a big camper, cook stove, bunk beds and room in the rear for our equipment.

These days the question isn't can I do it but the question is do I want to do it. I am in my 60's and getting lazy about working on cars. I want easy reasonable maintenance cars. I also have two subbies and can do the timing belts on a single or DOHC in short order. Replacing EGR valves is simple, almost everything is simple and I can somewhat enjoy puttering on them. My son's 1.8 Saturn engine is a piece of cake.

On the Volvo, what I normally consider an easy job, seems to be harder than any of my current cars or any of the late model Jags I once owned.

Two areas that I really don't like:

1. Suspension - because I don't like doing it
2. Mufflers, tailpipes, etc. because of the darn rust

There is little that I haven't tackled over the years.

I have a large garage but it is more like a play room with ping pong table, built-in brick BBQ, refrigerator, seating, etc. I am in the middle of trying to get enough room so that I can work on cars in the garage. It will make life much simpler and me less of a ranter about changing parts.

 

volvo's aren't any more complicated than any other car, but cars are getting more compact, and they pre assemble the engine out of the cars, so when something breaks you are having a hard time replacing the parts.