Volvo 480 Club Europe

I have read somewhere that the info center with the 60 liter tank should be set to 59 liters when full, not 60. This is the setting where it reads most accurately...

catgroom wrote:@Fargo Which country are you in? I would be interested in having my units overhauled...

Hi,

I'm in Hungary.
I can't tell you much about it right now because I'm just off to visit my parents, but I'll be back by Saturday latest, so that I can tell you the details...

Cheers:

Istvan

Dunno about them numbers, but here is a guy who does it for some 35 quids. He did it for numerous cars of the local Volvo club, including my 850 T5. It's been working since then without a glitch...

Holy cow, am I the oldest here?
38 now, had my first 480 at 35, which was my third (own) Volvo.
I always wanted one, ever since it had been launched. I'm planning to keep this one until it becomes old timer, also planning to get another ones to restore them. Who knows...

In my car, water gets warm first, and oil is warmed later. It takes some 2,5-3 kilometres for the oil to go 50?C...

My car did the same when dirt got into the towbar's electric socket, making the connections rot, causing some short circuit.

Dunno if you have a towbar, though. This is just to indicate that the reason could just as well be a short circuit or a flooded lamp, for example...

In next 20 years we'll be probably ran out of petrol. So all our 480 will be uselless :( I don't think so. Oil is enough for some 50 more years and they keep finding more and more resources. Maybe petrol will be bloody expensive then, but also the oldtimer business is too important to be left ignor...

If I were in the UK, where one can get a 480 for beans, I would not hesitate. I would get one or two for sure. OR, I would search for the perfect one, a low miles Celebration or GT, which I would restore to 100% condition and would lock up in a barn. THEN, 20 years later I would pull it out and woul...

There is 855 written on my '96 850's fuel filler flaps...
I think they used it until the S70/V70/S90/V90 arrived...

Most of the time I call it "The Little Crap".
When it behaves, I tend to call it "teso" which is Bro in Hungarian.

My car is from Italy and it has a nice story. It belonged to a lady in Bologna who used it for transport to her seaside cottage, towing her jet ski. (Thus the car had a towbar, which I sold later.) It was imported to Hungary in September, 2001. The guy who bought it, went to Italy to buy an Opel Cor...

I am working on a new door card and dash insert. Should look good when finished Me too. I'm cutting the backing of the inserts from plastic board, then I will have it retrimmed in black leather. Also, I'm working on a solution to preserve the pressed paper door cards and to protect the wholes of th...

Milosz_480 wrote:Do you suggest I should put some aluminium?

Well, according to general 480 materials' quality: put in some cheap paper

Maybe if you retrim the whole car in some better quality leather, including the door cards and dashboard.
But then, again, it's not that kind...

I think the 480 and wood inserts are two different worlds.
I would not put wood in a 480.

0.48 bar, that is...

Budapest, in August?

Nowhere near as good looking as the C70 was...

Sure it would!
My 460 Turbo did the same, plus fluctuating the idle between 500 and 2000 rpm. It made me crazy until they finally found it at the Volvo garage...

Where did you see the new C70?
Is that public already? I'd love to see it...