"cmill189 - sans Volvo" (cmill189)
03/26/2018 at 10:55 • Filed to: None
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"cmill189 - sans Volvo" (cmill189)
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But just for a couple hours of scheduled maintenance over the weekend.
Inner and outer tie rods, transmission mount, and steering limiters.
No more inner fender rubbing but I’ve now increased my horrible turning radius back to original spec.
Sorry it wasn’t what you were expecting or hoping for.
Sovande
> cmill189 - sans Volvo
03/26/2018 at 12:46 |
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How’s the vibration with the poly transmission mount?
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cmill189 - sans Volvo
> Sovande
03/26/2018 at 13:19 |
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Absolutely terrible at idle, lol. It’s fine everywhere else. It was more of an experiment. It seems to be breaking in so I’ll give it a little while longer before I put in a new stock piece.
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Sovande
> cmill189 - sans Volvo
03/26/2018 at 15:19 |
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Yeah, I was too scared to put one in my 1998 V70. Even though it was a manual people said the vibration was bad. I did upgrade the mount in my C30 and it made a big difference with very little additional vibration.
Awesome car you have, I am jealous. I am looking to get back into a Volvo wagon and have been looking at the V60's.
AestheticsInMotion
> cmill189 - sans Volvo
04/19/2018 at 21:25 |
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I have to restrain myself from checking the classifieds at swedespeed. I’m pretty sure I’ll be joining the R family this year but other things have to be taken care of first...
It’s a shame it’s so hard to find a color, but at least the greys pretty much all look great too. Do you still love the R? Would you do things differently? Can you buy me this?
https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/6558470995.html
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> AestheticsInMotion
04/20/2018 at 11:14 |
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I really do love mine, pretty much all the time. Driving it, looking at it, sitting in it, listening to the fantastic factory stereo. It’s biggest flaws being the 4C system (in certain conditions) and the turning radius. Both are completely livable issues for me. The turning radius just takes getting used to and the suspension just gets weird when the road is really bad or full of potholes. It has a tendency to “crash” due to programming or overcompensating for a hole. Washboard roads tend to confuse it too. It’s perfectly comfortable though in Comfort mode. The other end of that is how amazing it is on a nice road in Advanced mode. I don’t pretend it’s like your Miata or a M3 but the kind of speeds achieved and fun you can have in a big wagon is amazing to me.
I wouldn’t do anything differently. I really wish it had a 6-speed but that may come at some point in the future. It’s just next to impossible to find a Flash Green car, let alone one with a manual. The biggest thing with owning a modern Volvo is understanding you aren’t going to fix it in an Auto Zone parking lot with an OBDII scanner. I don’t get why people equate them with fixing a Honda. Don’t buy into the reliability hype. The R’s share 90% of their parts with a base S60/V70. Even the OE Brembo rotors are $70-80 a corner. It’s not expensive or even hard to maintain. VIDA will tell you exactly what’s wrong, how long it’s been wrong, and step-by-step how to fix it. Replacing the 4C struts aren’t cheap but it’s something you are only likely to do once. The ones that break ARE expensive to fix are due to no maintenance, modding, and/or an unprepared owner. I truly don’t see how it’s different than a STi/EVO. They’re regular cars with a bunch of tacked-on go-fast-bits from the factory and sold for outrageous prices. No one bats an eye at the owners of those cars spending $10,000 on new engines because they wanted more than 300HP.