mrloaf
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Picked this up off @AndyMc a few months ago after deciding my 3 door S3 (as fun as it was) was no longer cutting it for family duties. Always had a soft spot for these estates and had considered one before in the past but nothing suitable was available locally, some estates just seem to have the right lines in my eyes, some people (my wife included) just dont see the attraction - all they see is a hearse (a 17mpg round town one at that)
Fitted heko wind deflectors which is all i'll be adding to the exterior
Some quick specs:
- 2005, Just coming up to 150k (but like any volvo you'd never guess it)
- Adaptive suspension
- 18" Pegasus R alloys
- 2.5T 5pot 300bhp (makes nice noise when you start to get up the rev's )
- BRC LPG conversion
- 5 speed auto
- Atacama (orange) leather interior (complete marmite, but thankfully i love it, any other colour would seem too bland in my head now) heated front seats
Gave the interior and mats a real deep clean, came up pretty well
Have spent the last few months working my way through some maintenance/small jobs, picked up a DICE scanner off ebay and repurposed an old laptop to run Volvo VIDA 2014 software and help with the fault code reading, correct part number identification, live data monitoring, fitting guides etc, a very worthwhile purchase
Plan is just to keep on top of maintenance for the time being, its picked up some dings and scrapes along the way so some attention to the bodywork will come down the line after the more important stuff is taken care of.
So far i've checked off
- Oil and fuel filter service
- Couple of exhaust gaskets fitted
- Thermostat replacement and coolant flush
- New Ring Xenon HID bulbs (one of my bulbs was a completely different shade of white, i assumed different bulbs were installed, one was just on its last legs, new bulbs were a massive improvement)
- Headlight wipers were in bad shape, new wipers installed
- Anti Skid service warning traced to a faulty yaw sensor that was replaced
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- could feel a lumpy idle at times and confirmed random misfires being tracked in live Vida data monitoring when higher up in the rev range (but not enough to trigger CEL), went to check the ignition components and found the top of the entire valve cover swimming in oil took quite a while to get all the small recesses cleaned out and the cover completely dry so i could trace the source of the leak
Forums suggested the oil cap gasket could perish, the one installed was a little brittle, so new one was ordered anyways
Checking the ignition components (which were all replaced last year and fairly fresh), oil was all over some of the coils and down around the spark plugs, gave everything a good clean up
Traced the leak to a split in the pcv hose, which was letting out a fine mist of oil, old hose replaced, no oil build up since thankfully
The car came with a K&N filter in the original sealed airbox, it was in a sorry state tho, i doubt it was filtering anything, plus the inside of the airbox was very grubby - see below!, reckoned wouldnt be doing the MAF any good, so better to go back to an original paper filter
Removed the MAF and gave it a good spray clean using sensor cleaning spay, before installing the new filter, no more misfires now being recorded so cant be sure if it was a dirty MAF or the oily ignition components, but i'll take that outcome.
Very much a work in progress, plenty of small jobs to keep me happy tinkering with for the next while
Fitted heko wind deflectors which is all i'll be adding to the exterior
Some quick specs:
- 2005, Just coming up to 150k (but like any volvo you'd never guess it)
- Adaptive suspension
- 18" Pegasus R alloys
- 2.5T 5pot 300bhp (makes nice noise when you start to get up the rev's )
- BRC LPG conversion
- 5 speed auto
- Atacama (orange) leather interior (complete marmite, but thankfully i love it, any other colour would seem too bland in my head now) heated front seats
Gave the interior and mats a real deep clean, came up pretty well
Have spent the last few months working my way through some maintenance/small jobs, picked up a DICE scanner off ebay and repurposed an old laptop to run Volvo VIDA 2014 software and help with the fault code reading, correct part number identification, live data monitoring, fitting guides etc, a very worthwhile purchase
Plan is just to keep on top of maintenance for the time being, its picked up some dings and scrapes along the way so some attention to the bodywork will come down the line after the more important stuff is taken care of.
So far i've checked off
- Oil and fuel filter service
- Couple of exhaust gaskets fitted
- Thermostat replacement and coolant flush
- New Ring Xenon HID bulbs (one of my bulbs was a completely different shade of white, i assumed different bulbs were installed, one was just on its last legs, new bulbs were a massive improvement)
- Headlight wipers were in bad shape, new wipers installed
- Anti Skid service warning traced to a faulty yaw sensor that was replaced
-
- could feel a lumpy idle at times and confirmed random misfires being tracked in live Vida data monitoring when higher up in the rev range (but not enough to trigger CEL), went to check the ignition components and found the top of the entire valve cover swimming in oil took quite a while to get all the small recesses cleaned out and the cover completely dry so i could trace the source of the leak
Forums suggested the oil cap gasket could perish, the one installed was a little brittle, so new one was ordered anyways
Checking the ignition components (which were all replaced last year and fairly fresh), oil was all over some of the coils and down around the spark plugs, gave everything a good clean up
Traced the leak to a split in the pcv hose, which was letting out a fine mist of oil, old hose replaced, no oil build up since thankfully
The car came with a K&N filter in the original sealed airbox, it was in a sorry state tho, i doubt it was filtering anything, plus the inside of the airbox was very grubby - see below!, reckoned wouldnt be doing the MAF any good, so better to go back to an original paper filter
Removed the MAF and gave it a good spray clean using sensor cleaning spay, before installing the new filter, no more misfires now being recorded so cant be sure if it was a dirty MAF or the oily ignition components, but i'll take that outcome.
Very much a work in progress, plenty of small jobs to keep me happy tinkering with for the next while