Volvo 480 Club Europe

Hi Lee, just received my spoiler in good nick. Looks ace, thanks for the great service and quick delivery! Just needs some sanding and 305 and on it goes.

Chrome plating alu is an expensive job mate. Love the result!

At the mo there's an alu one for sale here in nl. It's for a non abs 480 unfortunaly mine is with. Otherwise I would have bought it. Never had seen one before must be diy I think?

You can get special glass polish for the windows in an automotive store. Should also work on the fogs, it only works on small scratches though. It will cost lots of elbow grease, so be prepared!

Could also be a short in the wiring from the pop up motor. Sometimes the wires are damaged where they enter the pop motor behind the black rubber like goo and short out there. Scrape away this insulating stuff to check the insulating of the wires itself. Or the micro switch in the motor itself is go...

And normal fog isn't enough. It has to be very very foggy until you can use them. Here in NL the sight has to be less then 50 meters, only then driving with foglights is allowed. And that is pretty damned dense, the kind of fog that you have to read the roadsigns to know where the hell you're locat...

Many thanx for your time, effort and service Lee, really appriciate it.
If everybody was like you, the world would be a better place!

Peter.

Found this site for us 480 pics lovers. Have a nice viewing!

Count me in for 1, you've got a PM.

For the 480's are all the leads the same.

Anlaßsperre means starter inhibitor (original volvo alarm). On the download page of this forum you can download the alarm manual and users guide. Go to homepage and scroll down.

Socket 5 has several functions to test the CEM. In this tread you can find the explenation.
The lambda can cause this. Be aware that you buy the original Bosch lambda, other brands can cause troubles. If you look in the howto topics there´s great tread about testing the lambda with a multimeter.

Here and here you can find the explenation of using the diagnostic box.

Go to the homepage of this forum, scroll down and click downloads, there you'll find the wiring diagrams.

Rocker is asking for the aux. waterpump for the turbo. That's not the 'normal' waterpomp but an electric one to give the turbo extra cooling after shut down.

There is an oilsieve, no filter. But to change it the subframe and autobox needs to be removed from the car. No way to change it with the box in situ.

Thought you guys might like to see my other mistress, a '73ES which I imported 10 years ago from california. Currently saving for a complete engine rebuilt. Should be due in may this year. Old engine is already out, also a B20F same engine code as in my 480S, only 20 years older and an original Volv...

They also look fab on the Ama:

Frontside of engine, left of the oilfilter. It's combined on an adaptor with the oilpressure sensor. (if you have an oilpressure gauge)

I assume you're after the cold start sensor? If so this is the wrong one, it's the fansensor in the rad. The coldstartsensor is indeed the one with the blue connector located under the right side plug. Just go to the dealer, as there are 4 types depending on chassis nr/ engine type. There not that e...