Volvo 480 Club Europe

Turbo numbers are critical ! If it was an animal, Chris Packham would be going mental. Well done, this one is worth saving as there are almost no 480 Turbo left, even on the Continent. They're all thrashed by the boy racer brigade or used as donor for a Renault 5 Turbo. That and the extra maintenanc...

Looking at the pictures Jeff I'm not half surprised.

Let me get a list together over the next day or so - keep an eye on your PM's!

Would pick up be from MK, or is that me imagining things? Covid allowing, although you would be my 480 support bubble.

Yep Happy New Year all. Hopefully post-Easter we can have some normality back. Hope you all had a good one.

In addition to the above valid comments... Check your rear seatbelt mountings in the wheel house... top right in this picture... https://www.jaykayem.co.uk/photos/480/Update6/6-8-4.jpg Mine needed rebuilding left and right as they had more holes than metal... and that's a late '94 car! https://www.j...

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Fantastic pictures... the hat is a nice touch

Happy Christmas to all (even if best-laid plans haven’t happened)

JKM

Congratulations on paint completion!

Not many F-reg examples looking like that nowadays. A credit to you.

Great write up Jeff - who would of thought a MAP sensor would be a critical sensor. Alas not the issue but good to know. Next steps. Since it's happy to start during cranking, ignition circuit must be ok. Not necessarily >if< the system has a ballast resistor. If the resistor circuit has issues they...

It's an interesting question JP; but the breakers yard landscape has changed since James asked that valid question. Even if you found a donor 400 series vehicle, you are fitting obsolete parts. When parts fail, which inevitably they do, you need that continued parts supply to maintain your installat...

The 2.0 was a Volvo unit I seem to remember, not Renault, but yeah still bomb proof Are you sure? My understanding is all 400 petrols are loosely based on Renault F3 or F4 petrols. Are you thinking of the 300.... where only the two litre had the Volvo engined B200 (a reduced capacity B21 red block,...

if it has been sitting then the blue smoke could just be sticky rings? Difficult to say isn't it? I never had these Renault engines down as big oil burners, I thought they were pretty bomb proof? You could do a cylinder leakage test? Or perhaps get a borescope and check if everything is honed ok? E...

Yep, sorry Alan, my bad, should of worded that better - TOO brittle for suspension I should of said, not more brittle.

All fairly standard 480 failure items, but the stand out item for me is the dense blue smoke at idle

I guess that quote includes some engine surgery?

Don't worry about ordering bolts; Volvo didn't use anything unique - its all universally available stuff. It's all metric too, so super simple. Getting the dimensions out of a parts catalogue helps to create a shopping list, but arguably the best person to decide what bolt is necessary is the guy on...

Evening all; thanks for the comments... Lets hope Morley's work lasts as both of our 480's have had their undercarriages pass by there! Hi James – I gave the subframe a lot of grief installing the stubborn bushes and it's been fine. I did pay extra for the zinc primer which might help things. That p...

Hi all! December 2020 - The Wheel Arch Procrastination Edition! [/u] What can you find to do instead of cutting all your hard work to pieces? Instrumentation [/u] I had the steering column out in the last update, so it seemed like a perfect time for instrument cluster removal... http://www.jaykayem....

Good to see the adjustable torque rods for the first time. They are quite beefy in comparison to OE!

I need to pull my finger out and order a windscreen because at this rate, there'll be none left!

We have seen that one for sale not so long ago. I remember commenting on the 460 wheels; arguably one of the least offensive modifications I spy. Ann Summers included. Another hot potato car. “Shall I spend some money welding these sills, thus preserving my classic car? Nah, I’ll spend the money on ...

Bonhams auction (the previous sale) states sold for £2,475

Perhaps it was purchased solely for the offside front Taurus centre cap which is now missing since Bonhams

Hey Jagwaa - great to see another Turbo on the rescue path. I wish you all the best. You couldn't pick a nicer & more helpful forum. will be giving Volvo a ring for that urgently. You'll soon give up with this strategy :rofl: The last Volvo parts guy I spoke to (Marshalls Cambridge) didn't know what...

Goes to prove how knackered mine was, and for how long, because there wasn't a trace of oil anywhere - despite being a hydromount and torn in half :lol: Yours will probably last without oil for some time, but its a one-way ticket to total separation. Yep, Rachel sent me a lovely email saying the mod...