Volvo 480 Club Europe

You will need to remove the instrument panel to get there. It should be a Yellow/Brown wire on one of the two large connectors on the cluster's PCB, or pin 1 of the speed gauge. It is rather easy to solder your own piece of cable with a connector there. I am not sure it will work with your navigatio...

Today at 16:40 a white 480 with DRLs on, coming on N207 from direction Alphen aan den Rijn and turning left towards Rijnsaterwoude, plate Jx-xx-73.

marksch wrote:This only happens once to anyone, cause it stays with you.

I have to admit it happened twice to me. In both cases I drove about 5 miles before noticing the smell. First time the cap was still there, the second time I had to buy a new one.

I used a really nice weather to dig into my battery drain problem. When the car is parked, there is some 200mA drain and I suspect it goes higher than that from time to time so basically I can't leave the car parked for more than let's say 4-5 days (even with a brand new battery). Ca 30-50mA is my r...

- Glove box (LHD/Continental version)
- Door pockets
- The pockets/cubbyholes on the side of rear seats
- Small frames around the handles that tilt the front seats
- Rear wiper motor

I want to be able to detect whether the doors are locked or not and use this information in my computer. Where do I get this info? Is it possible at all without an alarm installed?

muddyfox470 wrote:Sorry for only reading this now, but I am very intrigued and impressed by your work here.

Is it fully working now for you?

Yes, it has been fully working for me for quite some time now. Just finishing our own navigation module this month.

@JJ thats a nice controller between the seats, which one is it and where can i buy it? It is a Contour design's Shuttle Express: http://www.contourdesign.com/shuttlepro/shuttlexpress.htm They have a list of resellers on their site. However I have recently replaced it with 3Dconnexion's Space Naviga...

I had two ideas...one was to make a nice looking (vacuum formed plastic) bracket to extend the DVD player out from the dash and therefore i could have the flip up open. However it doesnt look right with something protruding like that. Not sure about UK, but in some other countries you would probabl...

I need to connect some of my circuits to the speed signal of my V480. I kind of expected to find a regular Hall sensor or other notoriously known sensor. However, what I have found in my car is far from anything I have ever seen. The sensor has 2 wires, both of them connected to the speedometer. Usi...

A small piece of plastic recently broke on my power window motor assembly, unfortunately it was the piece holding the cable that pulls the window up. Does anyone have the whole assembly available? I need the right-hand one (i.e. driver's side in the UK and passenger side on the continent). http://ho...

Thanks for the tip. Will check it out and replace it if needed. I still hope it is just some dirt or something like that. What is the critical temperature anyway? My other car is aircooled, oil temperatures between 120°C and 130°C are rather common and the fan only starts after temperature of ...

Thanks. I will check the engine, but I have not observed any changes in water level since the engine started to behave this way, so I think thermo sensor is more likely to be the problem.

The water in my engine is often getting too hot (over 100°C) when standing in a traffic jam and the radiator fan starts too late. When driving, everything is OK, water at 80-82°C. The first guess is that there is a problem with the thermostat, that controls the fan. However, I cannot find anyt...

Got a problem with the RH front window - the cable that is pulling it up is released (it has a small spring at the end). In the parts catalog and on my LH door I can see the cable is running inside the rail on which the whole assembly moves, however I cannot see *how* it is fixed there. Any info or ...

felyx wrote:HAYNES manual has all the wiring diagram schematics ,

if you can read wiring diagrams ( i can't ) then this the easy way .

cheers felyx

I have the original electrical schemes book for V480, but it does not list characteristics of the sensors, only connections.

I want to connect some of the car's sensors to the computer I have in my car and to do this, I need to know a bit about the sensors. I know where the sensors are located, mostly also where to get the signal conveniently. What I do not know about is the types and characteristics of these sensors. I s...

I like the idea, but I would personally leave the bonnet white. On the rear shots, the car looks great. I do not like the darkened rear windows though - for this I am either for everything (which would look great, but is probably not legal, grrr) or nothing. The contrast between the front and rear w...

Yes, unless something very urgent comes up, I will be there.