Volvo 480 Club Europe

Hello everyone. I'll be solo for the trip and will be doing the whole journey. A friend lives near Holmfirth so may join us at the end.

I'm won over by the snug idea, sounds great.

Have such a soft spot for the old ones.

I wonder if it's wheel arches are rotten?

https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-480-es-/1231285486 Because I am a glutton for punishment, if I was wanting a new 480, I'd probably be looking here. Stood 10 years in a barn of some sort and started occasionally. I'm not, so hopefully this piques someone else's interest to save. https://i.ebayi...

Quite the opposite! Lake's is a Volvo-only scrap yard in Bedford.

I may be going to Lake's Volvo this week so will try and get one. I'll PM you before I go to see if you still need it. Will only be a couple of quid knowing them

The heat will be from corroded connections where the bulb goes, causing high resistance. They're rather difficult to decorrode. If you have white clusters, the bulb holders are available I believe. If you have orange clusters, the holders aren't available. You can fit later bulb holders, but will ne...

Yes, I bought one a month or two ago from Halfords and their recommendation fits. I got a Yuasa black with lifetime guarantee. I had no end of starting issues which were due to the low battery voltage. Car voltmeter died at a similar time so I was none the wiser! My battery, genuine Volvo one from a...

Theoretically you can get a reproduction here:
http://www.wrcomposites.co.uk/automotiv ... parts.html


Front Spoiler - GRP Black Gel Coat Finish £40 + P&P
Front Spoiler - Carbon Finish £100 + P&P
Bonnet Scoop - GRP Black £50 + P&P
Bonnet Scoop - GRP Carbon Finish £100 + P&P

I can't even describe how much I hate Yodel. I think they have the contract with NL Post system. So our Dutch friends pay for decent track/trace system and get chimps on our end. When I got my new front clusters, they just dumped them outside my door in the rain.

Here's Pol's guide to power steering fluid change:

http://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/v ... =15&t=2925

Sounds like a great plan. You've got the basis there of probably one of the best 480's in the country! Power steering oil is Dextron II also. I just did mine recently by sucking the fluid out and diluting it. There is a procedure on here about pulling a pipe off, but I couldn't be bothered with the ...

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Hello mate. With regards to bashing the dashboard to get the speedo working mentioned in your other post: this was to avoid the actual dashboard breaking! The plastic is quite brittle and is likely to have been broken in the past from poor removal techniques. You may be lucky though. If you have to ...

The speedo is an electronic pick up so the fact that it works sometimes means you are hopefully lucky and it is a bad conenction. New sensors aren't available although i'm sure you'll get a second hand one should you need it Brinkie, a member on here, repairs instrument clusters, so you could take y...

I've never had a 2.0 or a 480 with aircon but my money would be on one belt being for air-con compressor and the other not.

To narrow it down, try using Skandix website with your VIN. Mister-Auto is also pretty good too.

That was the Ebay one yes. I will drive it back to Lincoln so the cambelt should be ok. This evening, for no reason whatsoever I suddenly remembered the reg number of my previous 480! I sold it over 15 years ago, how strange. Has anyone seen a 1993 ""S" model in red K553NGK, sold it to a guy who wa...

Sounds like the green one from eBay. Looked great! Well done

I'm in too. Painting in progress after getting the rear arches done so hoping to look quite smart. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/jamescarruthers/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20170323_175325_edit_zpsczeiyhqi.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/jamescarruthers/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20170323_175...