Volvo 480 Club Europe

Another pos. could be the headlight adjustment. Works with pressurised glycol filled tubing. Crap system, very delicate because of leaks and impossible to refill. No new spairparts available. Never seen one in working order.

I'm driving around on 15" 195/50. The speedo overreads about 10%160km on the CC is 145km on the TT.

Oh and thanks for the manual too Iroll! Exactly what I was needin to get the wheel off!

Thanks, you're welcome!
On this site the're a lot more 400 manuals to download, but most of them are in German and Dutch. But among them the're a few in English too like the srs/airbag manual.

Here you can download the SRS manual, hth.

You can use a big enough glass plate, grease the surface of the head very thinly with engine oil or whatever available. Put the glassplate carefully on the head and you can see if there's a perfect print on the glass or not...

As far as I know #5 is not wired up in any of the 400 serie's. Check the socket to verify, you can see if there's a copper contact in the socket. http://www.am.torun.pl/~ja/volvo/diagnostic-system.shtml edit, I was wrong!: I found a German manual which states that socket#5 is the CEM III diagnose. I...

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Over here they charge well over 100 euros for the part

In march this year I paid €37,76 for it at Volvo Broekhuizen in Zeist nl!

Most likely cause is a broken wire where the wiring goes from the top of the roof to the rearwindow. Sometimes difficult to spot there. Those wiring harnasses are still available from the dealer for something like 25ish. It's volvopart#3449998. This is the compleet loom for rearwiper, rearheater and...

Check the connection on the oiltemp.sensor. It's located under the leftside of the oilfilter, has a yellow wire.

Did you also change the bushings (3x) in the coupling underneat the gearstick to the box? Worn bushes where the cause in mine 480.

I heard this story too about fully synthetic. I doubt that it will damage seals. Pre 80 cars used different materials such as natural rubber for the seals. Those can be affected (swelling)by fully synthetic oils. But not our 480's, in these they used the modern, synthetic compound rubbers. Synthetic...

Synthetic or semisynthetic oil will clean the internals of your engine perfectly. My first 480 oil change was with Castrol magnatec 10/40 + filter, drove it for about 500mls, and replaced it. Kind off black sludge came out! Now after the second Castrol + filter change and 2000mls it still looks tran...

Be very carefull with polishing, only needed if the lacquer is really weathered. Every time you polish you take away a small layer of the lacquer. Waxing twice a year, polishing only when waxing isn't enough. Better try a clay bar first if waxing doesn't do the trick.

These badges can still be ordered new from the Volvo dealer.

So it's a M50 series gearbox. Check this site for interchangeable boxes.

The answer is in the FAQ section. Click on body and interior and then on replacing dashboard lightbulbs.
ps;
this Q belongs in the electrical system section!
http://www.volvo-480-europe.org/volvo480/faq/index.php

I answered your Q here as I find it impossible to post an attachment on this site.

Behind this nylon lager, as Volvo calls it, there's just the hole in which the circliped lager is fitted. So no oilseal around/behind it. This is the part of the selector linkage that goes straight up in to the box, but there is no oily residue in this specific area under the box, even though it is ...

The part# for the CC itself is 3466152. I think this is for the computer only. In the old accessoires list they've got it listed for fl360,00 old money. That would be about €160. Than you would need the rest of the kit. Part#3466154 all models exl.B20F price fl535,00 (€245,00) For the B2...

Do a search on richmod, and take a look at the tuning and tweaking. There's been a lot of info on this subject already, this thread for example:
http://volvo480.dragons.org.uk/forum/vi ... hp?t=16601