P2 diseasel cleaned

[RobbieH]

Decided that as my barge had passed it's MOT on Friday with nary a wisper against it I'd treat it to a good clean inside and out . And the weather was conducive to day outside, not too warm, not too cold, dry with the promise of a bit of blue sky. So outside we went with good selection of tunes from Paradise Lost, Simple Minds, Dido, Faithless, Linkin Park, Nightwish, The Twang and Dark The Suns echoing around the drive and garage as accompaniment.

AG shampoo and rinse
Dry with microfibre cloths
Megs clay with lube - well that took some crap off the paintwork
AG shampoo and rinse again
Dry with microfibre cloths again
AG Super Resin Polish
AG Extra Gloss Protection

AG Bumper Care
AGClean Wheels and Alloy Wheel Seal
AG Instant Tyre Dressing

AG Leather Care Cream
Armor All Dash Wipes

Some glass cleaner that I obtained from my previous job (used to clean chemical reactor view glasses so that gave 'em a good clean!)
Halfrauds equivalent to Rain-X.

Five hours of work and the results:


Reflective shots




Megs clean clay


Megs dirty clay after just about 4 square inches above the windscreen


Clean cockpit




Cleaned the tail gate too much - the Volvo letters moved. So I debadged it at the same time (I was having trouble cleaning the crud out from inside the letters at any rate so off they came) although I've left the D5 one on for the time being.



Probably last until mid-week if the forecast is to believed

And last but not least cleaned mine and wifeys bikes for tomorrow mornings time trial up the Cat and Fiddle road from Macclesfield to Buxton


All done by hand. No machinery used at all. Time for a beer!

[S60-MBS]

Hi Robbie ,
Lookd Fab,What did you use on cockpit?
Will be doing mines tomorrow inc full service

Edit - me bad just re read it and saw Armour all wipes

[p fandango]

very nice, must be the day for cleaning mine was done today (not by me, it was done before woke up lol)

[RobbieH]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately no helpers for me, just me on me lonesome. Wifey teaching in the morning (to pay for all the AG stuff I used ) then she had a snooze in the afternoon. But then she asks if I can do the same for her Micra next weekend. Urm.......... don't think I'm getting out of that one!

[cameron]

How come that never happens to me

Car looks well Robbie, thinking of buying a P2 diesel myself

Anything too look out for ?

Cheers

Lee

[S60-MBS]

This is what you guys need
I found this strange creature hidden in my engine once and he stayed there ever since

[RobbieH]

This is what you guys need
I found this strange creature hidden in my engine once and he stayed there ever since

My wife's probably a similar size. Wonder if she'd mind being re-homed?

[sen]

Very nice mate a man after my own heart cant beat a good old sunday clean

[RobbieH]

How come that never happens to me

Car looks well Robbie, thinking of buying a P2 diesel myself

Anything too look out for ?

Cheers

Lee

I'm no expert at all so I'm probably not really the person to ask. More by chance I got a 54plate so:

IIRC one issue in pre-04 cars is injectors which is expensive to fix so phew, missed that one.

Beyond that I'm not aware of any major issues with the D5 specifically. Usual V70 P2 issue common to all versions are knackered drop links (lots of clunks and clonks from the boingy bits, especially over speed humps). Make sure the clutch is well (inc. DMF) as if you wish to up the power / torque and something gives, that's expensive to fix.

Try to get an SE with winter pack so you get the usual goodies - 17" alloys, leather inside, bottom warmers in the front, Pro-Logic sound (absolutely brilliant imho), fogs, etc, etc. Check for service history and should have had the cambelt changed at 96K (can be pricey at stealer, although my local indy has just quoted me £120-140 if done at my next service - might have mine done early at 70k ish ahead of possible remap next year).

If you want to "play" with the power early EUIII seem to get the best gains for pennies spent. You know the usual players in this field.

Why are you considering a diseasel after what you've got, and more to the point what you've spent on it?

[cameron]

Fuel consumption is a killer

I know i didnt buy it for the great mpg figures

But 18 mpg around town and maybe 35 on a run is killing me at the mo, so deffo interested in a diseasel

[cornclose]

Very nice Robbie. But what's that black 'thing' on the eighth shot, swathed across the centre console, just above the fire extinguisher ?

Are you testing out the durability of some new polymer material ?

[RobbieH]

Very nice Robbie. But what's that black 'thing' on the eighth shot, swathed across the centre console, just above the fire extinguisher ?

Are you testing out the durability of some new polymer material ?

It's a faux leather "pod" for mounting the mobile phone and it's big enough to hide the 4 way multi-socket which powers the phone, my PDA and the Snooper. Saves having cables trailing everywhere. Bought off fleabay a couple of years ago. The flash seems to have made the colour difference compared to the console larger than how it appears in real life.
Suprised you didn't spot this at Grantham?


By the way, compliments on using the word "polymer" and not just "plastic". Nasty, cheap word, the latter, in my profession LOL.

[cornclose]

Cheers. Ebay linky at all ?

[RobbieH]

Cheers. Ebay linky at all ?

Well it was a couple of years ago but I'll have a look when I get home if I've still got the receipt. If not search for "mobile phone pod Volvo V70" or sumit like that might throw up a suitable object of desire.

[RobbieH]

Fuel consumption is a killer

I know i didnt buy it for the great mpg figures

But 18 mpg around town and maybe 35 on a run is killing me at the mo, so deffo interested in a diseasel

I can sympathise with you mate. I only really use the car at the weekend as I can ride to work most days so I only fill up say twice a month at the worst, less at this time of year now the bike racing season is over, and the price of fillin' my tank still hurts each time. Most the time I'm getting an average of 38-39mpg no matter what style of driving I adopt.

I bought a diesel for reasons which I won't bore you with and my circumstances have changed totally since then. In hindsight given my current circumstances I wish, in some ways, I had bought an T5 older for less money and put the price difference towards fuel and mods. But I bought the D5 and literally can't afford to sell now. Purchase price was £15k ex-stealer at 46k miles in Jan 2006 but a Glass valuation earlier this year only came in at £8.5k with 62k miles on the clock. That hurts.......

Thing is, you sell your car but you will, I feel, need to find extra spondoolies for a newer D5 which could just put towards fuel for the current one. It's a heck of a dilema to be in and I'm not sure what the answer is. That's down to the individual.

The other thing is, even with a remap, mine will probably "only" come up to the performance of a standard T5 let alone a mapped T5 (and please let's not resurrect that old arguement). Never having driven a standard T5 let alone a mapped one I'm not in a position to truely comment but could you live with a "downgrade" in performance?

Saying that I still have fun with mine. Came home last night from a shopping trip and as I joined one motorway from another, an Audi A3 1.8T went screaming past, nearly taking the front off the car in front of me. Well, I accelerated "quite hard" to overtake that car and get into the outside lane at which pioint said Audi must have seen me, thought I was you know who and slapped on the anchors. Talk about a give away, red brake lights everywhere and a swerve into the middle lane. Ar$ehole. At which point I just blithely sailed past.

Malicious, mois? Mai non, mes amis. But it felt soooooo good .

[cornclose]

Saying that I still have fun with mine. Came home last night from a shopping trip and as I joined one motorway from another, an Audi A3 1.8T went screaming past, nearly taking the front off the car in front of me. Well, I accelerated "quite hard" to overtake that car and get into the outside lane at which pioint said Audi must have seen me, thought I was you know who and slapped on the anchors. Talk about a give away, red brake lights everywhere and a swerve into the middle lane. Ar$ehole. At which point I just blithely sailed past.

Carefull now Robbie, isn't writing about this kind of caper now against the rules here ? Or is it only against the rules if a 'speed' is mentioned ?

Saying that, what's under the bonnet of a BMW Z4 ? I got the better of one yesterday...

[RobbieH]

Carefull now Robbie, isn't writing about this kind of caper now against the rules here ? Or is it only against the rules if a 'speed' is mentioned ?

Saying that, what's under the bonnet of a BMW Z4 ? I got the better of one yesterday...

I merely accelerated hard from about 40mph coming off the junction.


Z4 - new one recently launched http://www.carkeys.co.uk/launches/bmw/16346.asp:

top-level sDrive35i, which has a twin-turbocharged three-litre six-cylinder engine - a former International Engine of the Year award winner - producing a maximum of 306bhp. The other possibilities are the equally oddly-named sDrive23i (2.5 litres, 204bhp), which I also drove, and the sDrive30i (non-turbo three-litre, 258bhp) which wasn't available for testing.

No offence mate but I doubt it was the 35i. O-62 in 5.2seconds, etc.
If it was, chapeau mate, one pee'd off Bimmer owner.

[cornclose]

Didn't see which one it was, my mind was on the road. All I know is it was an 09 plate, in silver. I merely overtook it on dual carriage way, and he didn't like it one little bit.