She Lives!!
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:59 pm
I realise everyone has their own dream car and some of us have a passion for the Volvo 480. Perhaps not enough of us, as according to this site https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2 ... mit=Search there are only 396 left on British roads....
Let's just let that sink in for a minute - 396 out of more than 23 million vehicles on the roads in the UK. (for the arithmetically minded amongst you, this is <0..01% of cars on the roads) so it is little wonder we don't see them very often, is it?
Anyway, I'm getting close to the point where I will be able to get my own passion back on the road. A great leap forward today was the welding to the offside rear wheel arch.
So far, I've come up with a replacement for the DRL driving light: /
After
Still to do: 2 new tyres, repainting the repaired wheel arch (already filled and primed) perhaps the windscreen (which has 2 cracks but not within the prescribed area for MOT) , cambelt and tensioner (quoted £200 by local garage) and then the MOT itself. I may send off the instrument binnacle to Brinkie, as there do appear to be issues in that department,,
All in all she has come a long way since I took delivery last October - she was a pig to start, now a dream, she belched black smoke, now purrs like a cat and she was as dirty as a dawg, now she is polished and pristine. This is her before I got started, the day after she was delivered...
Hopefully she will be back on the road by August... then the fun will start.
I'll post some pics of her pristine interior soon - she has only done 45000 miles and the interior is almost unworn.
bells
Oh, and she is a 1994 (registered 95) 480S 1.7 fuel injection. No sunroof, no front fog lights, no bells or whistles, but I love her to bits and back together again!
Wish me luck!
Martin
Let's just let that sink in for a minute - 396 out of more than 23 million vehicles on the roads in the UK. (for the arithmetically minded amongst you, this is <0..01% of cars on the roads) so it is little wonder we don't see them very often, is it?
Anyway, I'm getting close to the point where I will be able to get my own passion back on the road. A great leap forward today was the welding to the offside rear wheel arch.
So far, I've come up with a replacement for the DRL driving light: /
After
Still to do: 2 new tyres, repainting the repaired wheel arch (already filled and primed) perhaps the windscreen (which has 2 cracks but not within the prescribed area for MOT) , cambelt and tensioner (quoted £200 by local garage) and then the MOT itself. I may send off the instrument binnacle to Brinkie, as there do appear to be issues in that department,,
All in all she has come a long way since I took delivery last October - she was a pig to start, now a dream, she belched black smoke, now purrs like a cat and she was as dirty as a dawg, now she is polished and pristine. This is her before I got started, the day after she was delivered...
Hopefully she will be back on the road by August... then the fun will start.
I'll post some pics of her pristine interior soon - she has only done 45000 miles and the interior is almost unworn.
bells
Oh, and she is a 1994 (registered 95) 480S 1.7 fuel injection. No sunroof, no front fog lights, no bells or whistles, but I love her to bits and back together again!
Wish me luck!
Martin