Volvo 480 Club Europe

bloody hell ANOTHER car!? your vehicle count is creeping back up again sir. good choice tho, bet its a hoot! I shall watch out for it coming to a glasgow road near me soon. i expect to see it looking at least as good/fast as this within the month http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/board/viewtopic.php?...

or a weight that was balancing your wheel has come off

http://forum.ecomodder.com/showthread.php?t=290

sweet work

can we have rounded corners or do i just cut that myself when laminating?

According the the listing of "Classics Monthly", the 480 Turbo is worth 3500/1200/400 in Excellent/pretty good/poor condition. It makes no mention of any other model. So my good sir, the red car is a classic...the others are just metal. in which case, mine's for sale, first person with 2500 in my h...

Yeah sounds good to me, especially if it has a red 480 on it just kidding, go for it, why not invite design ideas, then have a poll about the submissions to find something that the majority is happy with?

if i picture a car in my sleep it tends to be a nightmare about it breaking down. thankfully she's been well behaved recently!

i recon the 484 looks nicer than the cabrio anyway, do they still have leaky rear lights?

that might have been me!! i'm not hugely up on my geography of the capital, and was probably paying a lot more attention to being a bit lost than looking for 480's j reg red turbo? more than likely looking in need of a wash? i probably also had a/several bikes in the back?

on mine the cables and calipers were both less than a year old, and when it got stuck the cables were fine it was the actual caliper not sliding well on the 'pins'. haynes says emphatically not to grease them, so i didn't, just cleaned them up, put them back in and did a LOT of adjusting, too slack,...

yep, mine did this last year, glowiung disk and all, wish i had a picture of it! i'm just doing my best to not use the handbrake at all, i've seen -7 so far and fingers crossed no problems, i park on the flat and leave her in gear instead.

right ross, you've inspired me! had these pics on my phone for a while but today i finally dug out the cable to share them :D http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/owen080808/480%20at%20night/DSC00179.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/owen080808/480%20at%20night/DSC00176.jpg shame they're just...

put some more water/anti-freeze in!

then check for leaks

Ha ha small world! yes it would have been me that needed the box. Dougie was saying that he has a 480 in at the moment which they replaced the gearbox on, and now 2 weeks later its back again with the same problem, so i've been advised to go for a rebuild/recon. I like the re-assurance of this idea,...

righto! i was planning to get a salvaged one, but hearing tales of replacing a gearbox with a used one only for it to last 2 weeks is not something i fancy. I'm going to get a reconditioned/rebuilt 'box. That way i will know its the right one for the car, and also that it should have another 100k be...

yes, no doubt my driving style has contributed somewhat. :lol: and what news! i'm away for ten minutes and rohan is driving a saab. just joking, looks a nice comfy car, no slouch i'm sure too. i'm pretty sure i have the later type clutch, so i'm assuming that means later box, but who knows with thes...

Hello, After a bit of an absence from the forum lately i'm back! but sadly bearing bad news... My 480 has had a droning/whiney sound for a good while now, i always thought it was a wheel bearing and that i would replace it when it got noisey. In the last week or so the noise has become lounder and m...

that was excellent

is it american? its tvlinks.co.uk i think that in about 10 years time the way we watch tv will be a lot more like the way some of us do at the moment. watch what you want, when you want, without paying silly amounts of money. i remember first having access to really decent bandwidth internet (stude...

Basically, my overdraft has been hanging over my head since i was about 18. It's turned into a bit of a long running joke. I feel like i'm still in student mode. I work part time, i've got a £1050 overdraft Tell me about it man, i'm in the same situation, and equally non-plussed about trying to ...

Crikey! wonder if the going rate for turbo's remains unchanged then?