Volvo 480 Club Europe

Hi there,

long gone i am afraid! and i wish i kept them myself ha!

it is worth noting that if i was to do it aaallll again, you could maybe almost half the cost i have spent over the years, by being clever and shopping around, biding your time etc etc! alot of the expense was from when i was less experienced so would pay someone to do work, as I learn I can save mo...

All in my 480 owes me almost £20000

But for the engine and running gear swap, maybe £8500

Hi Spainal, I admire your enthusiasm! In 2021, I would raise the following two points... 1) Times have changed from the Richmod era 2000-2005. 480's at that time were getting scrapped like disposable paper cups. Every scrap yard in the land had a 440/480 Turbo breaking. The B18FT has some unique en...

No of course that's the final fitted example...

Just for fitment trials haha, final cones are actually much shorter than the sum of these, above is a worse case scenario stack, track rod has a similar instance too!

you and me both haha!

Not a massive update, but none the less, hopefully running on the new engine for the first time tomorrow

its definitely better! haha

i'll check condition of my spare GT front bumper (i know the splitter is well, split and the fogs are well, buggered) but id happily swap bumper for bumper if you want to keep the fogs from this one - it'll be "better" and saves the expense of paint, i just like having a spare but the colour means n...

PS.

if anyone has a nice shiny coolant bottle, i will pay for it!!

well, I didn't think it had been as long as 10 months since my last update... but apparently it has! so... prepare for a wee picture dump... first of all, i bought a 3d printer beginning of the year, coupled with my experience as a draughtsman/ 3d modeller, have been doing a few wee bits and bobs he...

if it helps on the splitter front, put my name down for one

I too am trying to avoid EU postage at the moment until things sort themselves out. GizFab has just started to make the > adjustable ones < which I think 16vCranna commissioned and has fitted. I'm not sure if they are a direct for OE supplement. Perhaps they might look too jazzy to some. They also ...

Alan, you know the hilarious thing is Myself and some friends rent a shed from a lad originally from Orkney (a Mr Groundwater if it means anything to you!) and in 2019 when myself and my better half went up to Orkney for a few nights, the lady who owned the air BnB knew Mr G really rather well :rof...

Alan, you know the hilarious thing is Myself and some friends rent a shed from a lad originally from Orkney (a Mr Groundwater if it means anything to you!) and in 2019 when myself and my better half went up to Orkney for a few nights, the lady who owned the air BnB knew Mr G really rather well :rof...

"The dashboard has been serviced with the electrionics being serviced by the only Volvo 480 electronic specialist in Holland." I can't remember having service the "electrionics" of this one, but I'm not living in either province of Holland in The Netherlands (there's a North and South Holland), so ...

I feel attacked

I'd 100% be stupid enough to Rescue it haha

Sorry, I'll re-phrase...

if it was less than £1000 there would be something about this Turbo that i really like - i think its just the simple colour, stripe combo!

There's something about this Turbo that i really like - i think its just the simple colour, stripe combo