Volvo 480 Club Europe

Thanks Sylvia - bring on the next one, hopefully in person!

dragonflyjewels wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 10:20 am

is there ANYONE who hasnt got a roomful of 480 bits ?

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Don't worry, I've got enough bits here to build another few cars from scratch but no scales big enough to fit that lot on!

Here's my contribution to the 'car interiors not in cars' collection:

Morning all, long time no posting from me! The GT has been away having its quarter-century service for some months and is likely to be away for several more at this rate so in the meantime I've been trying to make some progress with the rest of the fleet. I'll be dipping in and out today as time all...

I believe that in order for that sensor to work properly you should have some voltage on his leads. With the function generator you are applying a signal with is own power supply. In order for the car sensor "make" a signal it has to have a voltage feed to create the sinus wave. That voltage is sup...

There is NO output from the sensor, as it only has TWO wires, it is only changing the inductance?? as the gear wheel moves past it it is 'dumb' from my understanding of Robert (Brinkies) comments about fixing speedos . .. three wires are a different kettle of fish :D That's my understanding of it a...

I think that's probably what I'll try next, unfortunately that's a workshop job so will have to wait until next weekend. Additionally, I have no idea what the output from a healthy speed sensor would look like so I don't have a 'control' to compare it to, so will have to rely on my ability to judge ...

I carried on my investigations this morning - first thing was to check the sensor connector in the engine bay. In a car of this vintage (1988) it's down here: https://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/The_Computer_Moose/Cars/SVC/Speedo%20Repair/1_zpsr3cdig2p.jpg and looks like this: https://i13.photob...

Good work and a tidy repair 👍 Many thanks, hopefully it will all work in the end! My only idea: could it be that one of the speedo wires has broken insulation and it is grounded somewhere accidentally? That's certainly something I'm considering. Depending on what happens when I try feeding a signal...

That's annoying, two turbos come up for sale on my doorstep in about as many months and they're both knackered. Will keep an eye on it out of interest though as I drive past that yard fairly regularly, and it's just round the corner from where I do most of my maintenance. The Oxford main dealer in t...

This is something between a blog post, a how-to, and a question thread, so the electrical forum felt like the right place for it. My grey ES was supposed to be restoration project to give me something to fix when I'm not already fixing the green GT, but the other half has been using it to commute in...

yep both speedo have broken plastic gear wheels :-( one has two teeth missing, one has a tooth 'folded over' so I guess two gear wheels needed :( Was about to suggest that! Presumably you've already found the part you need, they were available on eBay last time I checked. Probably wouldn't have hel...

That looks fantastic! I've had SuperBrightLEDs in my bookmarks for a while as one of the few websites advertising B10d bulbs, but I've never ordered anything from them, partly due to shipping hassle and mainly because I suspected that the front-facing LED chip would be too directional to allow the l...

Don't forget the hazard switch while you're in there: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SLI-EBT-1107 ... 2577963987

...and this is useful in general: https://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/ ... 2&p=218099

Not my car, but the latest 480 at Lake's had 196,681 on the clock, and looked like it was doing well until it unfortunately hit something. That Celeb has been up for sale for a while, perhaps the high mileage has been putting people off? The rear clusters look fairly bad but hopefully that won't be ...

the 480 in lakes had a set of gauges I think - James can probably confirm! It did indeed - if they didn't make it into your boot then I've probably got them. Haven't been through my bits yet but will check in due course. I believe you had first dibs on them but if you're offering them to David then...

The whole car has been off the road for a while (coolant leak, now fixed with a new pump) and I've been daily driving it this week to bring any niggles to the surface, which turned out to be the near-side pop-up not working and the info centre being completely dead. I can do without them for driving...

The GT and I are having a slight disagreement:





Fortunately I had a feeling this would happen so I preemptively took the day off. Not sure which car I'll be in tomorrow but I'll get there one way or another!

Looks familiar!

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So it's done 16km since it was sold last year and gained £14,675 in value!

Thanks for posting that picture - I was basing my understanding of how the motor works internally on ancient text-only posts dug up by the forum search, so that makes things much clearer! When I was referring to 'switches' I meant the interrupting mechanism that gives top and bottom position. Someon...