Volvo 480 Club Europe

The same for the last few days, after the first kilometers it's working. But I discovered making a sharp right bend let it stop for a little while.

Went to the Volvo stealers for some bits the other day and chanced upon some C30s in the showroom. Very nice I thought, until I examined the boot to find that the C30 has a very similar parcel shelf arrangement to the 480! 20 years of progress and they still have to use a flimsy piece of vinyl to c...

Meguiars did wonders for my red car, I'm sure it's good for white cars too. See in The secret life of a 480 owner...

Well this morning the speedo didn't work immediately, only after a few kilometers probably when the panel got warmer

My friend has a blue '96 850 estate with blue interior and I like it. Lovely engine, great sound. Very comfortable and much quieter as the 480. A drawback I consider the less direct steering.

Last night I did my final approach. Took out the display unit, and disassembled the pcb and speedo. I touched all solder joints where connections are, and two different looking ones on the VDO chip at the speedo. I heated them and added a little fresh tin. Then I lined up the speedo and rev counter ...

If I start a job, I need to know I will be able to finish it. From where I live it's not easy to get parts without a car, and I need it for work. pol, someone had suggested to me replacing the wishbones complete with new. I wouldn't say they are cheap at € 75,- each + tax. The 4 bushes would c...

This week the situation is that the speedo will come alive spontaneous or after resetting the trip counter. Knocking on front of the instruments does it too but less effective. Maybe, it is a bad connection and slightly bettered from touching it with the soldering iron, but not yet enough. However t...

What do you mean with "vadis instruction"?

Thanks John.
Are there any issues with removing the wishbones?

Once you've done it it's fairly easy but you need to know where the screws are. These pictures tell you the story. http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/Vansloneker/01.jpg under the top of the cover are two screws in front of the display unit http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/Vansloneker/0...

Hi and welcome. Do I understand correct you also own an 850?

The rubber bushes of my front wishbones are worn out and need to be replaced. One Volvo specialist suggested replacing the entire wishbones as taking out and replacing the bushes would be very labour intensive. How did you guys do it? Can someone post a step by step guide please? How to squeeze in t...

My display unit is held together with torx screws and they go bad very rapidly. I had a lot of trouble opening it again. So I now used some ordinary screws on it. Torx or not, I couldn't find anything. I cleaned connections, measured connections and tipped soldering points at connections. No luck. T...

Mine has rattles and squeaks and vibrations and noises everywhere actually. In the dash, the left door panel, suspension front and rear, some vibrating from the exhaust at certain revs, the right door etc. Apart from that wind, tyre and engine noise. Volvo didn't put much effort in the noise damping...

Could be but its a pity that you are not in the glasgow area as you could swop over the speedos with a spare I have. Its actually a very easy job as is taking out the dashboard which is a 5 minute job. Thanks for your kind words Jim. Yesterday on my first drive I managed to keep it going by banging...

This morning I noticed how the trip counter had slightly moved. Not the speedo, just that the counter went to 100 meters. It didn't move visible. When I pressed the reset button, things started working again. So apparently it is a bad connection in or directly at the dashboard. Could it be in the ac...

Today while I was actually on my way to a Volvo Service to order a sensor suddenly I noticed the trip counter had moved. I showed 1.1 km. Next I saw the speedo indicating my speed! Maybe since a ran over a railroad crossing pretty wild just before...? So I thought it would not be the sensor then but...

Heat shield is held on by two 10 mm bolts. These can be accessed from above. The single 6 mm allen key bolt which holds on the speedo sensor can be accessed from the passenger side , the trick to sorting it out quickly and relatively easily is to use a small mirror and torch to locate the allen key...

ahoy there! despair not. in this pic, you can see the driveshaft, and directly above it a wire/cable exits the gearbox. this is the speedo sensor. its held in by the hex bolt and little z shaped bracket you can see above it in the pic. i think the hex key is 6mm in size from memory, but i could be ...