Ok but youve got the bells and whistles model, theres not many of them out there. My uncles 04 golf is called 'Special Edition' and i think what vw did was strip out all the useful extras, theres not even remote central locking, electric mirrors, electric windows, or a/c it amazes me how spartan it is inside. Wheras from what i can understand end of the mill 406s seemed to have been better specced with white dials, chrome handles, silver dashes, and sat nav.
Welly wrote:Cheers Jasper, I know about the oil thing on Diesels - weird though as it sounds like the eolys fluid gets into the sump
No it's fuel - during a regen it injects fuel during the exhaust stroke, so it'll burn in the cat & give off enough heat to incinerate the eolys-laden soot in what can best be described as a horizontal chimney fire.
Unfortunately, on the volvo, a proportion of this 'extra' diesel winds up in the sump.
(Never mind - if there's any adverse publicity, they're going to rename it 'Zone 5 Afterburner')
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A 240, thats one of them volvos that were designed on an etch a sketch before the wheel had been invented. But still i did like its rather square styling. But were old volvos really reliable, my dad said back in the day a volvo was considered a luxury car, but he also said there was some that had renault engines and were a mechanical disaster.
406executiveHDI wrote:A 240, thats one of them volvos that were designed on an etch a sketch before the wheel had been invented. But still i did like its rather square styling. But were old volvos really reliable, my dad said back in the day a volvo was considered a luxury car, but he also said there was some that had renault engines and were a mechanical disaster.
That would of been the 2.8/9 PRV engine - Twas a V6 fitted to the 604, 605, R25 and Volvo 268 etc etc...
Also the Volvo 360/340's had Renault lumps They were also RWD and had the gerabox mounted in the back
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but where they any good, i know of someone who used to buy big petrol volvos back in the 80s but removed the engines and put in nissan van engines to run them on diseasel.
406executiveHDI wrote:but where they any good, i know of someone who used to buy big petrol volvos back in the 80s but removed the engines and put in nissan van engines to run them on diseasel.
Not a clue but...
YES PLEASE
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My dad said it was trouble. But then he was driving a datsun sunny so everything would have been trouble compared to it. Apart from the bodywork issue.