Volvo 480 Club Europe

I wish I could join but sadly I am working this weekend

Sorry to have whetted your appetite and then not followed through. I'll look in to dates with my village hall when I get a minute.

My B18E (with the stupid sensors) seems to have became very difficult to start when cold. It runs perfectly when up to temperature. When cold and finally coaxed to life after about 3-4 awful starts and stalls, it doesn’t do the fast idle thing at all. As far as I can see, the trigger for cold idle i...

480 is the same. It would have came with a smaller headed key which also was for "valet" purposes.

Thank you for thinking of us. I wish I was free to do such things like this. Hope you have a great meet!

triumphtoledo wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:32 pm

The fuel injection on the 2.0 takes a signal from the speedometer to sense vehicle speed to cut fuel when the throttle is released. My 480 also experiences hanging revs when the speedometer decides to stop working

Not sure that is true

Hi there In a bit of a pickle with my attempt to fix my non working odometer. Pulled the cluster off the dash but the board is a bit diferent, mine being a my88. There's four pins that seem to be holding the board and also there's a blue thingy that seems to go through the board and i have no idea ...

Hi there In a bit of a pickle with my attempt to fix my non working odometer. Pulled the cluster off the dash but the board is a bit diferent, mine being a my88. There's four pins that seem to be holding the board and also there's a blue thingy that seems to go through the board and i have no idea ...

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SR means sunroof. Many UK cars have this, known as a 'moonroof'-- basically a shit sunroof

Hey Adam, Check where the accelerator goes through the blukhead in the engine bay. I know two of my early cars have had the sort of guide tube on the cable break up and cause it to stick. I've sort of bodged it with garden hose and tie-wraps to guide it better but on my current car it sometimes stil...

Since the baby came, my wife doesn't use her Mini and has stolen my C6 as her every day transport with the baby! This is fair enough but she has now decided she wants something larger of her own choice. She's owned it since 2013 and it has been fantastically reliable and is the only car to have neve...

I often wonder about the rescue cars but struggle to find their posts. Could the R-cars be put as "stickies" at the top of our "The secret life of a 480 owner..." section?

Gapples wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:35 pm

I must have been pretty close as you've obviously got the photo James, not to worry, hopefully I'll not need to post too many pics

Two tone pics always welcome!

Gapples wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:04 pm

2 failures so far

You are very close! Just past the "Direct Link" in (it ends with the file extension, in this case .jpg) rather than the image link

Unfortunately it is very complicated because this is a very old forum.

Gapples wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:04 pm

Gapples wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:00 pm

Are there any meets in the pipeline? I'm itching to get out, explode my cooling system and go home, as is tradition! Even maybe a curry out one lunchtime or evening near me in Cambridge? I think I could arrange this and get a field nearby; but Sylvia's mega missions that she does would be beyone me!...

They have to be hosted eleswhere and then linked to on here. I use www.postimages.org out of sheer laziness, other solutions are available so also see what other members do. Once the image is hosted elsewhere, you can press the little photo icon which will them put the following "code" in to your po...

So today I went about fitting the new land Rover washer part ( thanks for telling me about it jamescarruthers :D ) Had to annihilate the old piece to try get the pipes off but apart from that it's on, currently out of washer fluid so can't actually check if it works but hey it's a step in the right...