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[vesparider]

Interesting, and thanks for the compliment.

How do i tell who specced/first had the car? Its had one previous owner, and i think its been here in Kingston most of its life.

[norchi]

If you go to a local dealer they will give you a print out of all the services, warranty work etc. carried out by UK dealers and a full original build log.

Don.

[Garett]

Roger Woods said:

Garett said:

Nice car! Another Oxford registered Volvo (plate starts with O), it wasn't first registered to Volvo UK was it? Mine is 'OY' and the first registerd keeper was Volvo UK and if you are sad enough to notice you will see quite a few Volvos around with OE, OY etc at the start of the plates. Volvo Uk are (or were?) based in Didcot so a fair amount of these cars probably belonged to staff there perhaps.

Mines OW 05 and was a Volvo Management car with plenty of options fitted, seems that most of the Volvo sales in 05 were staff!

Yep mine was a Volvo UK car and is an S but basically specced upto SE (except auto climate control and front fogs). Don't know why they didn't just get an SE to begin with!

[anonymous-user]

Obsucure car company rules for employee cars I'd imagine - I know it it used to be quite common at VAG for there to be incentives to take a low spec car and slather it with options, maybe the same at Volvo.

Oh and thanks to everyone for sharing pics of their cars.

[martinrpeachey]

Resprayed the front bumper, fitted eyebrows and a splitter today for that "angry plod car" look

[inman999]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

inman999 said:

Well I'm now the proud owner of this 2004 V70 D5 SE

http://bit.ly/14JFh9f sorry not great at linking pictures directly.

High miles and short MOT but reflected in the price I think. Hopefully the suspension knock is drop links but what's the worst case? Wishbones?

Does this one have the facelift interior?

Can't wait to pick it up.

Seriously good price for an 04 D5. Good luck with it!

Well I picked it up last night and drive the 300 miles home. First impressions are I'm seriously impressed. Cost over £100 to fill which was a shock after running on LPG for the last 6 months. Atleast the range predicted 1060 miles to empty. The knocking noise I'm almost certain is the driveshaft bolt, tightened it half a turn but didn't want to go any further. Noise is still there so I've ordered an XC90 bolt. Only other faults I can find are a tail light bulb, a broken washer jet nozzle and the fuel flap doesn't lock and is missing a price of plastic that tensions the spring.

Off to buy service bits now and the MOT is booked for Wednesday.

[martinrpeachey]

The fuel flap locks 600 seconds after the deadlocks mate. sit and watch it for 10 minutes after locking the car to confirm weather or not it works before you go buying another solenoid

[inman999]

martinrpeachey said:

The fuel flap locks 600 seconds after the deadlocks mate. sit and watch it for 10 minutes after locking the car to confirm weather or not it works before you go buying another solenoid

Its not the actual lock its the plastic lugs that hold the spring/hinge. having looked at the part on Ebay mine is missing the 2 little plastic lugs that hold it closed, which is then not allowing the actual lock to locate. One is on order.

Man maths has also meant I bought 20 litres of Shell Helix Ultra Diesel 5W-30 instead of 7 but that's another story.

[Pixel-Snapper]

martinrpeachey said:

How do you get your bumper strips so black Martin?

Mine a greyer than a seals arse at the moment and tried all sorts of back to black stuff with no success.

[martinrpeachey]

Pixel-Snapper said:

How do you get your bumper strips so black Martin?

Mine a greyer than a seals arse at the moment and tried all sorts of back to black stuff with no success.

Go to aldi (or Lidl) and grab a pot of black boot polish - the one with the little sponge. Wet the sponge and apply it to the strips. They'll get darker and last longer every time you do it, it lasts 2 to 3 months.

Once they get to a good even black, go get yourself some Meguires Endurance Tyre Gel, dress your tyres using a sponge and when you finish, just run round all your black trims with it, it'll bring them up lovely.



Works on engine plastics and hoses too...

[Pixel-Snapper]

muchas gracias senor Peachey!

Off to do the Aldi shop tonight will pick some up.

[martinrpeachey]

Pixel-Snapper said:

muchas gracias senor Peachey!

Off to do the Aldi shop tonight will pick some up.

No problem

Make sure you post some pics when you finish

[inman999]

So today instead of living with all those niggling faults and only fixing them ready for sale I decided to sort them out for me to enjoy. In no particular order I have

Replaced offside handbrake cable (seized) (MOT fail)
Replaced various bulbs (MOT fail)
Fixed floppy key fobs
Fixed rear wiper motor
Fixed knocking drivetrain, which turned out to be a loose top engine brace mount.
Replaced a couple of fuses that had blown
Replaced rusty wheel bolts

And nothing broke or went wrong, which was nice.

[martinrpeachey]

New exhaust yesterday...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykltC55k370

[Pixel-Snapper]

hmmmmm burrrrrbuble!

Forgot to get the shoe polish when I went to aldi the other day didn't I.

[kwk]

martinrpeachey said:

New exhaust yesterday...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykltC55k370

Courtesy of Mr Dalhousie?

[martinrpeachey]

Get it bought mate, best £1.50 you can spend on your car




From Mr Dalhousie indeed, assisted by Mr Oblark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymcVhh4Ghc

[Pixel Pusher]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

I have been accessorising lately.

20" Heico Volution V wheels.

Brushed silver side door mouldings.

Extra chrome grill above the A-bar.

Very nice. I could be wrong but I think there's also chrome surrounds for the little air vents below the head lights??

Ocean Race edition things??

[Vulgar LS2]

My 1968 Amazon,

[loughran]

There seems to be some sort of scooter in the way. More pics please, she looks gorgeous !

And what's that red thing ?