Volvo 480 Club Europe

Huge vacuum leak?

Intercooler hose broken? Any hoses connected to turbo split?

Is it noisy?

Dees it rev at all or rev a little and stall?

pol

:rofl: Good point! - But interesting to know of other options. I've never heard of DTA or Omex. Are these like MegaSquirt? I'd like to try something like this. Is it possible to make a wiring harness that would convert the ecu connectors to something like megasquirt? That'd be a nice option! - Hi Ch...

I reckon it'd look good for about a week until scratches sart appearing.

pol

You've made 10 posts now so you can add photo's! Get posting, it looks nice!

pol

Hi Jim, I also had an MOT fail today :( I don't know how to sort out your emissions but just letting you know you're not the only one running around doing repairs today! Failed on front brake hose (shop sold me the wrong one today), short circuit in rear cluster (fixed), windscreen wipers (replaced)...

I might open mine up some time. I'm curious about these resistor mods too. i found an old post where rich had found 4 or 5 resistors which could be varied. THis seems to be before he worked out some additional tuning.

I think i'll just have a play and see what I can break / see what I can learn!

pol

Hi Lee, yes, the 'richmod' is no doubt good value for money! Only it seems it is not always available as rich is clearly busy and does not make a great deal of money out of it so probably has no big incentive? Do you think there is likely to be more trips to richmod land in the future? If rich wante...

That's interesting. So if I took my ECU to RICA they may only do this resistor mod for £250? if so i'll do it myself.

Thanks,

pol

Very nice. I've sent you an email!

pol

Hi Ettore, I already use an MBC and have seen the how to for the resistor mod. I'm guessing the resistor mod would only trick the computer with false boost readings or reduce the resistance given to the solenoid? I'm not in a great hurry to modify my ecu but I just like to know that there are option...

Just been sniffing around the interweb as you do, reading about the bosch ecu's and came across this: http://www.kwp2000.info/ Just wondering if it (or something similar) can be used on our ECU's. It does not mention the 480 but it seems that most Bosch ECU's share a common interface (OBDII) which c...

Son of kev sounds like he's going to have an easy live of 480 ownership!

Nice work with the speaker pods.

iv got after market speakers in my back.

Ouch.

pol

I called volvo recently and was quoted £35 a side. Which is half what I was expecting.

Rear clusters are £135 a side though.

pol

Glad it's sold.

I'd still like to see pics of the fish and chips.

pol

I think the brakes always have a spongy feel even when blead properly. Or is that just me. You seem to be more aware of it when doing the bleeding. I always just blame the ABS system as I know I've been doing it right.

Perhaps you have a leak in the system if yours sounds worse than this?

pol

£250.

Any takers?!

pol

This is still for sale!

The winner couldn't collect for a while and the second chancers haven't responded.

Who wants it and can collect this week / weekend?!

PM me if interested.

Thanks,

pol

Well I think it's a beauty. I got mine for an absolute bargain from a scrapper but that is a very rare find!

I like all the extra colour bits. I only have the red and white.

They feel mich nicer than the standard wheel. They are a bit fatter and a smaller circumference.

pol

I think it looks better than any new car under £20,000 at the moment. I looked at new cars briefly but they are all boring i've decided!

Good work,

pol

I was wondering what they were! What a heap of shit. Someone actually thinks this looks good. They need to be run over.

pol