Volvo 480 Club Europe

Back spring, but a lot of other kittle jobs to be done too, and I hardly use it these days, so probably best to move on. I may get another one later though

Multiple fails

3 x brake pipes, 2 anti rollbar linkages, a spring and a bulb, mostly labour but about £4-500

It's now on ebay for spares/repair

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0398524925

Thanks, It goes in 8am tuesday, hardly driven since the last one, so here's hoping...

Fitted and appears to work, thanks rohan, next stop the mot....

Thanks, just home from collecting Vandergraaf's from Glasgow, assuming it works fine I should be ok

Thanks very much Derek, I really appreciate it.

However Rohan's alternator is of known condition, so common sense says that would be a better bet than an unknown scrapyard one, how much do you want for it Rohan?

Collecting from Glasgow would be no problem at all

It's a screwed up recon I got fitted about 18 months ago. it appears the centre bolt wasn't tightened correctly and the pulley, fan, spacer and body are now quite badly damaged. Perhaps a pulley, fan and spacer would solve the problem, though we aren't sure no other damage has been caused internally.

Thanks darkstar will do

Hmm, I can get a recon for about £60-70 so thought that would be reasonable for one off a scrapper, what would be more realistic?

Mot is due this week and my alternator has failed, dont want to spend loads of money getting an alternator for her to fail the mot. If anyone has a known working one within reasonable travelling distance (will be expensive to post) for up to £25 please let me know. its an ES limited edition by th...

I had this until I replaced the exhaust back and middle sections. It wasn't the cat as I still have the original fitted.

When my exhaust was faulty you could hear it three streets away, it was only at certain revs and sounded like someone humming with a comb and paper.

It wasn't the catalytic converter as only the centre and back exhaust sections were replaced curing the problem.

I had a similar problem when I bought my ES, it ended up being something in the exhaust, when the back and center section were replaced the noise vanished permanently

Thanks a lot, I actually suspect this may be the way, but didnt want to kink the cable, I'll try again when i get time to have another go and let you know how it goes.

I tried to replace the clutch cable today, and while footery it loks straightforward enough, however when everything is lined up at the pedal end, the barrel on the end of the cable will not slide into the hole in the lever on the pedal. It looks easy enough and I've had the cable lying right along ...

Or the dimmer under the steering column could be turned right down

I just had to do this :) Pop up the lights then pop the bonnet to lock them up. Remove the outermost screw in front of the popup its a self tapper about 1" long. pull the light unit toward you, there is a clip at the corner but if you pull it straight back the clip will undo itself. Hope that helps

Did you ever get this sorted? Mine just started doing the same

Ok, I think I've got it sorted, It does seem to be charging ok after all, 13.2v at rest droipping to 12.5 with the fan running, and up to 13.6 with the engine revved. I then checked the current, 0.25 amps when nothing switched on. This would drain the battery in about 200 hours i reckon, which recen...

Thanks Jim, need to get the battery charged up before I do all that, Ill get back to you in a day or so.