Few jobs done.

**Mr Sheen** · Monday 14th January 2013, 15:39

Nothing major, just all the niggly little things e.g. half the bulbs in the radio blown and
a couple of switches. I orderd 12v wired ended bulbs from a guy on Ebay.

Radio was real easy to do, remove 6 screws and the volume knob, couple of clips and
you end up with this......

Bulbs are easy to remove and replace.

Next on the job list was the lower tie bar bushes as these were in real bad shape.
Dont have pics of the old bushes before I burnt them out.

Worst part was burning out the old bushes, otherwise quick and easy to do.
Wish I'd had time to paint the brackets though!

**Jimmie** · Monday 14th January 2013, 15:43

Is your radio still ok as i have one if you need it.
It will be almost free to you.lol

**MA'R'K** · Monday 14th January 2013, 15:46

Nice! Which radio is this? ....and do you have a photo of the lower tie bar bushes on the car?

**Mr Sheen** · Monday 14th January 2013, 16:09

Jimmy, the radio's fine. I just couldn't see some of the buttons in the dark. Lol

MA'R'K, it's an SC 805. I'll get some pics of it on the car tomorrow.

**M-R-P** · Monday 14th January 2013, 16:56

I'm surprised you needed to burn the old bushes out, Mine just pushed out.

Must be a P2 thing.

Good work

**MA'R'K** · Monday 14th January 2013, 17:57

Nice, I'm thinking of refurbing the whole subframe & components at the same time, so will need these. Anyone know what the difference between the subframe on the R is to the T5? The lower arms on the R don't have any options for polybushing and I go through them, so would be a good mod if poss?!? May start this in another thread....

**Mr Sheen** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 00:01

Tried pushing them out, had to resort to a bit of flame

**volvokid** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 07:35

Glad the car is still going strong

**Mr Sheen** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 10:19

Yeah still going well Martyn and still clean......maybe not quite as clean as when you had it.

**Jimmie** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 10:52

Originally Posted by Mr Sheen

Yeah still going well Martyn and still clean......maybe not quite as clean as when you had it.

Must be one of the best looking 850 on here imo!

I would buy it but i don't have enough money.

**Mr Sheen** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 14:44

Think you biased though Jimmy. Lol

Another job done today, I replaced the heater matrix. Passanger side carpet was a little damp.
The matrix it's self looked ok, but the o'rings were a little past sell by date

Replaced both matrix and o'rings.

Top tip - buy decent hose clamps, spent more time trying to clamp hoses than the actual job.
Laser hose clamps from Halfords are too small for the heater hoses.

**claymore** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 15:04

Originally Posted by Jimmie

Must be one of the best looking 850 on here imo!

I would buy it but i don't have enough money.

It certainly is nice, but it definitely needs a hit with the stick.

**JamesT5** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 15:45

I've got some bulbs blown behind the climate control panel on mine - another one of those niggles I've got to fix at a later date and I'll probably end up doing the whole dash as a 'preventative maintenance' measure too...

**960kg** · Tuesday 15th January 2013, 17:44

Originally Posted by Mr Sheen

Think you biased though Jimmy. Lol

Another job done today, I replaced the heater matrix. Passanger side carpet was a little damp.
The matrix it's self looked ok, but the o'rings were a little past sell by date

Replaced both matrix and o'rings.

Top tip - buy decent hose clamps, spent more time trying to clamp hoses than the actual job.
Laser hose clamps from Halfords are too small for the heater hoses.

Just to try and help those that want to change there Matrix........you don`t have to clamp the hoses in the engine compartment.

Just leave the reservoir cap on tight and when you come to pull off the matrix from the pipes inside the car just have a large black bin liner under the actual pipes and only 1 litre of coolant will go into the bag from the matrix........no messy water to clean up.