Volvo 480 Club Europe

If you want to keep using the car while the instrument cluster is away for repairs, any other cluster with the same connectors (most have green/grey which was introduced in MY 1989) will do. The main reason you need an instrument cluster in place, is that the alternator will not start charging witho...

There is no bulb, it is a LED and should last almost indefinitely. In case the LED remains on, I would try and swap the CEM. I could throw in a CEM into the package with the speedometer (which will be on its way this week-end probably; the ABS issue has been resolved and I am expecting the Paris Blu...

An engine cutting out suddenly could either be the ignition or the fuel supply. I would try and replace both the distributor cap and rotor first, if that hasn't been recently. It will set you back approximately 20 quid and is a very easy DIY job. Then the HT leads, which sell new for around 35 quid ...

Either the sensor or the wiring is at fault, the STOP signal is given if the info centre measures too low resistance or if the input is shorted to ground.

Usually only the little 20 tooth gear breaks.
What makes you think 16 euro for a specially reproduced part, unavailable at Volvo, is expensive?

Well I thought I'd save a bunch of those clips for you, only to find out the ones on my car are completely missing :shock: Now I know, after two years of ownership, why the door cards are squeaking so loudly: there's really nothing to hold the underside to the door... Anyway, I should find more sour...

Join the club Martin, both my blue 480 GT and a 480 S I am currently scrapping seem to have lost the under-engine cover. Makes it easier to spot the oil leak

Cheers! :hopping: Ironically, the speedometer in the green Volvo 480 stopped working the other day... I tried swapping instrument panels, it's definitely a wiring and/or sensor issue, but I don't have time to rectify the problem (I need a lift otherwise I can't reach the sensor) so I am using a GPS ...

Can you PM me the exact amount and your Paypal please?

I thought the only difference was the number of grooves on the pulley. If they have the same number of Ampères output (usually 70 A) there is no difference in performance.

The green and grey connectors from behind the insrusment panel, maybe with some wiring so I could marry up the colours. My experience is that, although the colours of the connectors are the same, the colours of the wiring are different throughout the model years :nuts: But, if you need anything to ...

Jim did you get my message? If you still have the seatbelt arm (without the roller) and the springs for the seatbelt arms I would be very grateful.

Martin, I am going to break a 480 S in September (MOT fail because of terminal rust), I will try and salvage the door clips.

Hi Brinkie Have wiper arms / LHD / Thanks for the offer, but I can find them here, Orlando (the Volvo 480 parts guy, not the city in Fla. USA) lives approx. 20 minutes driving from where I live. Nevertheless, if GJ is throwing away everything he has left, it would be nice if I could re-use some of ...

Robert have 2 spare wiper arms :D Oh that is cool. Oh never mind... I forgot about the fact that wiper arms are different for LHD and RHD cars. :wall: I just checked with the parts book, the left hand side wiper arm is the same, but the right hand side wiper arm is different and that is the one cur...

I got the low fuel light working again! :hopping: :hopping: :hopping: :hopping: :hopping: :hopping: It is a 40p part really... A BC337-25 switching transistor. I am so lucky I am working near one of the few remaining electronic parts stores in this country, so I bought one in advance, because I had ...

glasgowjim wrote:Robert

have 2 spare wiper arms

Oh that is cool.

Just brilliantRobert! :D Suffice it to say I am now itching to get the unit back into the car so she can go for her MOT and finally get back on the road. :hopping: Many many thanks for this excellent and highly recommended service! Tomorrow morning it will definitely be on its way back to you, shou...

Well, the instrument cluster is alive again! And first of all: many thanks to Glasgowjim for supplying me a box full of instrument clusters with speedometers in miles and SRS, so I had plenty of spares at hand. http://i.imgur.com/7YAKlsg.jpg This was by far the most challenging repair I have had... ...

At least in Spain the rust devil won't eat the 480, but did you manage to drive all 480.000 km with the same running gear? One of my 480's is at 335.000 now but needed another engine. The other is at 310.000 and has received another gearbox somewhere in the past.

Anyway, keep the 480 running