Just thought I would open a new thread for the new addition to the Munster household.
I bought this car from a long time friend of mine who has had it for 13 years. It was originally a Volvo demo car then was leased by Volvo to Cocked Hat Foods of Ripon, North Yorkshire hence the private plate B4 CHF. Apparently in 2000 they didn't keep up the payments and the car was repossessed by Volvo and was put on the forecourt at Harratts Volvo in Barnsley. My mate saw it and traded the V70 10 valve he had bought just 2 months earlier from them and has had it ever since. He got it with 15k on the clock and it now has 108K.
It had been SORN for 16 months as he wasn't using it regularly and it sat under a tree in his driveway looking sorry for itself. I had periodically asked him to sell it and he never would. As fate would have it, I was due to go and buy KFC's car last month until he broke it, and literally 48 hrs later I got the phone call saying this car was possibly for sale.
Went and had a look first, then took T5Pete for a look and a deal was done to buy the car as was with no MOT or Road tax.
As it had stood for a while the brakes were all crap and so I took it to my mates garage who took it for the MOT. Long story short was it failed on a ball joint/wishbone, ABS lamp on, w/washers inop and all brakes crap/unbalanced.
Told my mate to do the work and give it me back with MOT, and it came back earlier in the week with a full ticket on. Wont be taxing it till 1st October so had a little time to have a fettle.
Took it up to t5Petes today and did a full service, used all Volvo OEM service items as got a good deal through a contact.
Oil change and oil/air filter change
fuel filter change
new Rotor arm and distributor cap
new spark plugs
new expansion tank
replaced coolant with nice new stuff
Car runs lovely and smooth, cant wait to use it.
I have decide to take inspiration from Bonelorry's Gul and Grahams V70 and want to, over time try and get my car to that standard. I don't want to throw dump valves and blue hoses at it like I did the 854, just want to improve it and make it gleam in a factory-ish stylee.
First job to do was the de gunking of all the crud that had been on it so a quick wash down with Meg's wash and wax shampoo and conditioner. Im not really a show and shine guy, anything more than 90 mins of washin and I get a bit bored so will be doing it a bit at a time. It will need a good cut back as time permits but not today.
Yeah, I know....stop waffling and stick some pictures up :-)
http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/mu...?sort=3&page=1
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