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Hicky
Guru
Does it cover XC70 2005 163hp?
Hicky
Guru
After the backbox detached itself from the rest of the pipework in my works car park, I had a very gentle drive back to Dogdale to the local exhaust place, I’m 240squid lighter and the bus is amazingly quiet….i now realise it is a, very easy for noise to creep up on you and b, I need to start a claim against the MOD for hearing loss.🫡🫨
Jameshow
Veteran
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Saturday 21st
Spotted
A1
Wetherby Services
West Yorkshire
A nice colour
There was also a (silver) ‘first generation’ shape parked near it
Spotted
A1
Wetherby Services
West Yorkshire
A nice colour
There was also a (silver) ‘first generation’ shape parked near it
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Seen via FaceBook
When it was new, that V70 would have been one of the biggest cars there!
When it was new, that V70 would have been one of the biggest cars there!
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
That's a heck of a 740, at about 3:36 
(& a nice Commodore V8/Aussie Touring Car at 2:40)
View: https://youtu.be/v79JVB-1KI0?si=M46a16ijymy8W9aN
(& a nice Commodore V8/Aussie Touring Car at 2:40)
View: https://youtu.be/v79JVB-1KI0?si=M46a16ijymy8W9aN
Hicky
Guru
This goes to show how ridiculously big cars have become.
Hicky
Guru
Having been camping in Cornwall and returning this mpg(prob -10%) towing a trailer a full boot and a roof box.
My daughter managed to bork the passenger window. In the heat I put one of the retractable blinds on her window, she woke and lowered it not realizing as she’s four…I “hope” it’s just broke the blue retaining clips(on order). I now have a car with a bin bag ensuring It remains watertight.
Arse, however nearly a thousand miles without fault.
My daughter managed to bork the passenger window. In the heat I put one of the retractable blinds on her window, she woke and lowered it not realizing as she’s four…I “hope” it’s just broke the blue retaining clips(on order). I now have a car with a bin bag ensuring It remains watertight.
Arse, however nearly a thousand miles without fault.
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My late father in law gifted us their 01 V70 T5, with around 60k on the clock, and pretty mint to be fair, cream leather interior.
The only negative for me, as an enthusiastic driver, was that it was an automatic.
It was also somewhat thirsty, so right from the very start I had it converted to LPG, with a tank going where the spare wheel was, and the wheel then sitting in the boot in a bag. It worked really well to be fair, and there was no discernible drop in performance.
The only occasional difficulty (in this country unsurprisingly) was finding places to refill with LPG - and in recent years I notice it has gotten worse and worse as they are removed.
I seem to recall we used to use an app to find nearby LPG stations, but on occasion they would be literally out of gas.
The LPG made it affordable for us to run though, and the £1200 conversion paid for itself in a pretty short time.
To drive it was very comfy, had cruise control and the uprated (I believe) Bose sound system - had several trips down through Europe in it.
Only one major issue, was when one of the throttle bodies went, iirc it was around £3-400 to fix, but the symptoms were alarming, happened once to my partner, and once to me.
Mine was going up a fast uphill piece of dual carriageway (no hard shoulder), the power dropped, as I guess it went into limp mode, so I had to hit the hazard lights, and simply hope it would make it up to the top, and no one rear ended me. We just about made it, pulled in, switched off, and restarted, and it was fine to get home, but quite a memorable episode!
We must have covered around 80,000 miles in it, and aside from that one thing, it was just consumables that you would expect really.
Around 2019 a decision was made to get a bigger vehicle, as I wanted something more van shaped that I could get fully assembled bicycles in.
Ended up with a 2016 Ford Grand Tourneo Connect, and have to say it's been bloody brilliant, and touch wood, aside from one starter motor, just as reliable as the Volvo. A huge drop in power from 250 to 120bhp, but still surprisingly lively, and it's a manual which pleases me.
Someone on the Bikeradar forum put me onto them, as prior to that I was unaware of their existence.
I've removed the two rearmost pop up seats, for extra height, and with the 2nd row all or partially folded down, it will take a full size adult bike (Probably 5 with all the seats down) without anything needing to be removed or adjusted.
£35 a year vehicle duty which is nice, the Volvo was in the hundreds.
The only negative for me, as an enthusiastic driver, was that it was an automatic.
It was also somewhat thirsty, so right from the very start I had it converted to LPG, with a tank going where the spare wheel was, and the wheel then sitting in the boot in a bag. It worked really well to be fair, and there was no discernible drop in performance.
The only occasional difficulty (in this country unsurprisingly) was finding places to refill with LPG - and in recent years I notice it has gotten worse and worse as they are removed.
I seem to recall we used to use an app to find nearby LPG stations, but on occasion they would be literally out of gas.
The LPG made it affordable for us to run though, and the £1200 conversion paid for itself in a pretty short time.
To drive it was very comfy, had cruise control and the uprated (I believe) Bose sound system - had several trips down through Europe in it.
Only one major issue, was when one of the throttle bodies went, iirc it was around £3-400 to fix, but the symptoms were alarming, happened once to my partner, and once to me.
Mine was going up a fast uphill piece of dual carriageway (no hard shoulder), the power dropped, as I guess it went into limp mode, so I had to hit the hazard lights, and simply hope it would make it up to the top, and no one rear ended me. We just about made it, pulled in, switched off, and restarted, and it was fine to get home, but quite a memorable episode!
We must have covered around 80,000 miles in it, and aside from that one thing, it was just consumables that you would expect really.
Around 2019 a decision was made to get a bigger vehicle, as I wanted something more van shaped that I could get fully assembled bicycles in.
Ended up with a 2016 Ford Grand Tourneo Connect, and have to say it's been bloody brilliant, and touch wood, aside from one starter motor, just as reliable as the Volvo. A huge drop in power from 250 to 120bhp, but still surprisingly lively, and it's a manual which pleases me.
Someone on the Bikeradar forum put me onto them, as prior to that I was unaware of their existence.
I've removed the two rearmost pop up seats, for extra height, and with the 2nd row all or partially folded down, it will take a full size adult bike (Probably 5 with all the seats down) without anything needing to be removed or adjusted.
£35 a year vehicle duty which is nice, the Volvo was in the hundreds.
Hicky
Guru
After the bull in a china shop daughter borked the window(see above). I’m glad to report it was simply a broken retaining clip and no regulator arms bent!!!!🤤😎Replaced with an eBay special retaining clip. This wasn’t straight forward as they’re slightly too big for the runners, I had to give them a tickle with a file on either side. Runners greased and the whole thing reassembled.
For some reason the auto up on the window now doesn’t work…I presume I either didn’t take enough off creating too much friction or too much creating enough of a wobble for the car to assume it’s stuck.
Either way it’s working now.
For some reason the auto up on the window now doesn’t work…I presume I either didn’t take enough off creating too much friction or too much creating enough of a wobble for the car to assume it’s stuck.
Either way it’s working now.
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