Volvo 480 Club Europe

Hello everyone, I would like to disassemble the lenses of the front clusters in order to repaint the internal reflective material, I have two sets of orange indicators both with nice lenses but very dull interiors. I know Joep Vrijling has remanufactured the DRL lenses, so there has to be a "safe" p...

I bought these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sportflaps-Mudflaps-VOLVO-FULL-SET-OF-4-Mudflaps-screws-V40-V70-S60-/391318585835?hash=item5b1c67c1eb:g:3CEAAOSw3ydVy4oF with the "Volvo" writing for the back and without for the front. https://preview.ibb.co/hEpk0Q/19989724_1569412563098644_28576467291207354...

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 n...

That's really interesting, my info came from the mechanic who looks after our 480's, and used to work at a Volvo Main Dealer when they were current. I'm wondering if the cars here in the UK might be different ? We've had the same lack of pop-ups on 3 of our 480s in the past. Number 4 hasn't been wi...

I recently swapped my rear brake lights and front DRL's with these: http://www.ebay.it/itm/311272270815 single positive contact model that I used in the front http://www.ebay.it/itm/391362901718 double positive contacts model that I used in the rear (Uk driver probably need this in the front as well...

Hi Richard, I have one in working conditions, but probably it's not compatible with your car, Mine is from an early turbo (89) and as far as I know volvo changed the hoses in 91 or so, we can check that with a photo under your bonnet anyhow. If compatible I can give it away for cheap, I have no use ...

Hi, I'm interested as well if you ar ok to ship it and I have the tools to scan it if necessary.
Let me know
Giovanni

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Hello, waiting for my car to be in good shape I'm looking for a modded orange ECU (Robu or Richmond, no others) or alternatively I could be interested in a spare "stock" orange ECU.
Before sending mine to be modified I thought to check here.

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The loom seems stock around both the jetronic and the fuel ECU, the auxiliary water pump seems to activate correctly, I ear it buzzing every time I switch off the car. I guess that since the car run fine it is not a case of ECU / Flywheel mismatch. I don't thinks they made much effort in to making a...

Hello In the last few days I started gathering informations regarding the various ECU modifications and therefor learned a bit about the different versions/colours. My car is a 89 Turbo but the previous owner swapped the engine from a 91 Turbo cat In retrospective it was a poor decision to buy this ...

I think I finally got to the end of this. I used my portable oscilloscope to see what was going on while driving, with cables running back and fort from the bonnet :) Anyhow, the sensor works fine, apparently it doesn't pick up interference and the signal is clean, it is not a perfect sinusoidal tho...

No, I meant a wobbly meter and the wobbling coincides with the movement of the trip counter. I found out in my lab that using an inadequate power supply causes a jumping needle. But how you describe it might as well be a high frequency interference problem with other parts of the engine. Did you ta...

No, I don't believe that the wobbling is in sync with the trip meter movement, I'll try to shoot a video. Still the odometer advances accordingly to the displayed speed, On a 50km trip (measured by the gps) the odometer sowed 62km But I wasn't doing 50km/h all the time, I think it would had been eve...

Does the needle jump in the same manner as the trip counter counts? If so, then the instrument panel has a power supply problem. The average speed reflects the displayed speed, more or less, and I also get outstanding fuel economy when doing 50km/h as the computer thinks I'm doing two time the spee...

Does the needle jump in the same manner as the trip counter counts? If so, then the instrument panel has a power supply problem. The average speed reflects the displayed speed, more or less, and I also get outstanding fuel economy when doing 50km/h as the computer thinks I'm doing two time the spee...

Hello, I finally got to do some serious testing, using the car for short and long trips, today I did more than 300km. Unfortunately the speedometer is not performing very well, once the car is hot, let say about after 30km, it start behaving erratically: when the car is speeding up from 45km/h the d...

Hello,
The leather gasket covering my gear leva is in poor condition and I have the opportunity to buy a better one, is it possible to replace it without destroying something else?
Thanks

Hi, my volvo is a little older (89) but it should be ok. Unfortunately I do not have the measurements for the adaptor, but if you still have your original sensor you can easily measure the dimensions directly. The inside of the adapter should be machined to screw on the sensor, that has a 3/8-24UNF ...

Hi, yesterday i was able to do a short test drive (around 30km) and I'm pleased to report that the speedometer is working fabulously. It gives a consistent reading, always about 5km/h more than the gps on my iPhone but this is normal. The information center reads the speed and seems to work fine. th...