Let the fun (spending!) begin!!

[Jim S70R]

Cheers Jim, it's coming on mate. The pictures are kind, it still needs a lot of work to get anywhere near the standard of yours or andys, but it'll get there!

The r888's are 215/45/17. I got them from oponeo online, £121 a tyre delivered which was a Stonking deal. So I bought 6 for the 850 and 6 for the atr! Lol!

I've got eagle f1's for the road wheels once they come back from the powder coaters.

Well it certainly looks wicked from the pictures.

Wow that is a steal at that price blimey, thanks for the heads up I'll check that place out and see what they do, I'm not in any rush but just fancied trying some out on mine.

[S70T5Chris]

They are stunning. I've only driven a little on the road with them but the improvement in grip is insane.

Only thing to mention is being a track tyre they are actually a fair bit wider than road 215's if that makes sense, so just make sure you have the clearance. Also you get a reasonable amount of road noise, not catastrophic, but noticeable.

[MA'R'K]

Also, I've had a good bit of luck for a change! The AP calipers I bought from eGay and had refurbished have turned out to be a fairly rare beast it would seem. Enabling me to run a 330x32mm disc. Which according to Tim should pretty much give me the ultimate brakes I could have. I believe the off the shelf AP kits come with a 325x28mm disc.

A pair of 330x32mm discs with curved grooves, AP Racing bell mounting bolts & DS2500's ordered.

Having not been on here in ages I'm only just catching up on some of the cool builds recently! Awesome work here Chris, I'm loving the APs..... I think they're the same type of calliper as mine (with the old square AP type logo) and Tim did well last year to straighten my glide plates out as they were pretty twisted due to poor maintenance and a build up of corrosion (BG Developments in Bromsgrove 'refurbished' them for me originally, charged a fortune and did a really cr*p job!) Only thing is, Tim never got back to me on the exact spec of 330x32 disks and pads he used and never gave me an invoice..... I gave up trying to chase him but need to get my records in order, could I ask what you have used?

[S70T5Chris]

Having not been on here in ages I'm only just catching up on some of the cool builds recently! Awesome work here Chris, I'm loving the APs..... I think they're the same type of calliper as mine (with the old square AP type logo) and Tim did well last year to straighten my glide plates out as they were pretty twisted due to poor maintenance and a build up of corrosion (BG Developments in Bromsgrove 'refurbished' them for me originally, charged a fortune and did a really cr*p job!) Only thing is, Tim never got back to me on the exact spec of 330x32 disks and pads he used and never gave me an invoice..... I gave up trying to chase him but need to get my records in order, could I ask what you have used?

Sorry mate. only just seen this. My discs came from Reyland.

[S70T5Chris]

Well, what a busy day! Decided to attack the interior and swap over the front seats for the better condition ones I've been sat on (no pun intended!!). I'm pretty certain I sucked up an entire dog today - Sucked up! Not off! Jesus Cherry, you never heard of a hoover?!!! LOL! I'm gonna be finding dog hairs for ever and a day! Every square inch of the carpet and roof lining was absolutely covered! Every bit of trim - dirty doesn't even come close! I must have used a dozen cloths to clean the interior today, but the results speak for themselves! I could maybe do with spending a bit more time on the roof lining, but the interior is just about as good as it could get, it's looking really nice. Just a couple more bits to get retrimmed and It'll be done.

The original drivers seat:


Seats out:




Difficult to try and get across how manky the roof lining was!:


Starting to clean it, you can see the difference already:


Out with the old:


In with the new!:


Interior all done!








Just want to get the gearstick gaitor and handbrake handle recovered in black alcantara, and get some new mats and it's all good!

[S70T5Chris]

Roof lining done!:

[Harvey]

Looks spot on ,what did you use on the head lining as it came up nice.

[S70T5Chris]

Also started to do the door shuts. Only managed to get the drivers side done. Hopefully be able to find some time in the week to do the passenger side and boot shut. Then it'll be onto the next mission - the engine bay!!

Rinsed, clayed, t-cut, and polish. (Ignore the side skirts, as they will be painted!) And lots of cotton budding, and tooth brushing!

[S70T5Chris]

Looks spot on ,what did you use on the head lining as it came up nice.

I started using Autoglym interior shampoo stuff and a scrubbing brush, but it wasn't touching it. I've got some All Purpose Cleaner that you dilute 1:10, and it says it can be used one plastic, vinyl, leather, fabric, etc you name it!!! I just use it for interior trims, but thought i'd give it a whirl, and it worked an absolute treat!

[S70T5Chris]

Had the newly powder coated wheels fitted with the Eagle F1's (215/45/17), and put on the car with new wheel bolts and centre caps. Very pleased.













Just noticed the front towing eye wants a lick of paint!

[S70T5Chris]

Sourced a rust free tailgate, and a good condition roof spoiler. Just waiting to hear about a front wing.

[t5 pete]

Looks great Chris for the towing eye you want the plastic cover looks much better

[cherry1809]

Mate, If you have a dog like mine, you kinda give up...

[S70T5Chris]

He's a hairy beast!

[Hound]

Looking very smart indeed. Impressed by the attention to detail!

[S70T5Chris]

OK, so this is well overdue an update

A ££££ ton of stuff has happened in the last 2 years(!!!!) nearly.

I'll try and pick up where I left off best I can!



Pretty much when we left off in May '15, having had the car back from all the major work for a couple of months, the car was back at Tims for a few bits and bobs;

- Slight fiddle with the remap

- I had a judder from the rear brakes, IIRC this was resolved by skimming the rear discs, and re-bedding them in.

- Air con drier & regass

- I bought a DO88 RIP kit to replace the badly fitting GWE stuff. Had this powder coated black along with the maf housing, for a much more factory look.

- New fuel rail cover, now that one would fit with a decent fitting RIP kit!

- The drivers window mechanism had ££££ itself

- New drivers door check strap

- Towing eye cover

- New door lights

- Fit a brand spanking new front grill :-)

- New master cylinder/resevoir (purely for cosmetics)

- Paint the servo

- Fit a new HID kit for high beam (cheap Chinese kit had failed already)

- Supply me with new wheel arch liners, ready to go on after respray

- Tim also supplied me some new trims that go under the headlights. You can still buy the blank trims with no wiper cutouts, ready for respraying.

- Have a tinker with the front brakes, the squeal was doing my head in. We tried shims, anti rattle clips, different pads, all sorts. I can't actually remember what solved it in the end, but I'm still on the DS2500's. And the squeal/squeak appears on occasion, but it's well liveable!

[S70T5Chris]

Shortly after this, around July, it went to the body shop.

I had another tailgate to go on, as the old one had some minor rust, a new rear spoiler (the original had been repaired at some stage), and a new front drivers side wing, I managed to find a relatively new genuine Volvo wing that was sat on am 850 that had had a front end repair with genuine parts, and then been parked up with a knackered engine. Those, along with the new wheel arch liners went to the body shop.

The bumpers and bonnet had previously been painted by someone else, so I had both complete sides painted. The paint job itself, I was happy with, but the guy painting it had not taken a great deal of care in masking up certain areas, so I (Tim) was left with quite a bit of cleaning up to do.

After the bodywork was done, the car went to Pro Reflect for a 3 day detail, which included a 3 stage machine polish, and a glass ceramic coat (which amazingly is still as perfect now as it was then! Highly recommended!).

[S70T5Chris]

Towards the end of 2015 she went for another stay at Mr Williams for more titivations and niggles.

At this stage we're really starting to chase the nitty gritty bits and pieces to make the car as nice as possible.

- Tim spent a lot of time correcting/tarting up a lot of irritating issues caused by the sprayer. To name a couple of the issues; he had just blown over the door handles including the plastic gasket that sits behind; he had gotten over spray on the rear bumper top; over spray on door rubbers/seals amongst other places!; done a real poor job of masking up the black triangle stickers on the rear doors (pics explain this better), etc.... Also (which wasn't his fault), the rear tailgate inner seal was destroyed when he removed it to paint it.

- So new door handle gaskets, rear tailgate seal, a door seal, about £9,000,000 worth of trim and panel clips

- New Volvo black rivets to replace the ££££ing crap the painter had fitted the wheel arch liners with!

- Various factory stickers that are still available

- New Volvo Wiper arms

- New Volvo wiper bladed

- New Volvo Battery

- New Volvo mudflaps

- New front bumper top

- New complete rear bumper (top is not separate!!), paint obvioulsy

- P1 V70 side skirts, much nice looking than 850's, painted

- New wing mirror caps, painted

- New tailgate badges

- New power steering pump bracket and bolt

- New rear bumper brackets and bolts

- Replacement boot panel

- Needed a new lambda sensor

- I'm sure I've missed some stuff, and this lists doesn't even come close to portraying how much time Tim spent cleaning and making good so many odds and sods on the car

[S70T5Chris]

After that it needed a new starter motor, which I got my local Volvo specialist to do for me.



In February '16 I took it along to a Swede Sport UK organised dyno day at Devil Developments in Littlehampton





Couldn't have expected better really!

[S70T5Chris]

Around June '16 I bought the Kum Wagon from Dodgy Mo, as I was after a few interior bits for mine, and I knew the Kum had a nice interior.




In September '16 both cars went up to Tims.

I had collated a nice little list of stuff to sort out on the white one, plus steal a few interior bits from the grey one.

- Fit another heater control panel, my bulb were still red from when Cherry had it!

- The idle speed was a bit high, and the throttle peddle was initially a bit stiff if left for a while, both sorted with an adjustment of the cable

- I had quite a bad water leak coming in through the rear drivers side door, turn out to be the sunroof drain doodar or summit or nuffin

- New bonnet catches

- Realign the bonnet so it sat better

- Battery drain, which turned out to be one of the door switches

- Rear heated screen stopped working, wiring was stretched from when the painter refitted the tailgate

- Air con had stopped working by this point, so a regas

- The blowers were woeful. So Tim stripped it all out, blew the flodger threw, and now the blowers are like a hurricane!

- Replaced the door catches with shiny new ones!

- Replace a load of interior bits, some from the Kum Wagon, some we had collected, dash top, door cards, glove box tray/lid, entire dash console(!), roof lining, entire sunroof assembly as mine was pretty rusty, various bits of trims, speaker grills, etc etc...

- Fit a new alcantara geatsick gaitor I had made

- Fit a new handbrake lever that I had trimmed with alcantara

- Oil change, gearbox fluid, and any other little things Tim spotted along the way!




Now, we're really getting anal;