Gul Yellow T-5R M251 TFC

[AndybTFC]

Sorry I’m not going to disclose the figure paid for it in 2016.


Into 2018 and once out of storage the main job for the year was to sort the front brakes out. A sticking front calliper had overheated the disc and warped it giving bad steering wheel wobble when jumping on the brakes. I wasn’t happy with the standard to which the calipers and discs had been painted by a previous owner so took the opportunity to replace all calipers with fully refurbished ones, pads, discs and rubber hoses both front and rear, the fronts were in quite a bad way. I also ended up replacing a few of the solid brake lines as they’d just ceased solid on the end fittings.


Rears all done...








And fronts....








Made a massive difference to the car and it’s ability to stop.


That was pretty much it for 2018 although I did manage to get hold of the cars original floor mats again. Time constraints of work didn’t really allow for me to spend much time driving it or working on it and it did just shy of 500 miles for the year.


Next job on the list is to replace the hand brake cables, they’re showing their age and adjusted to the maximum now!

Other jobs to do this year is to replace the front screen as the replacement it had at some point in the past is not quite fitted high enough as the top screen rubber doesn’t meet with the roof properly. New upper and lower screen rubbers will be fitted at the same time and the side screen trims that run up and along the length of the roof. Again these parts are just starting to show their age.

In addition to that it’s about ready for a new radiator as it’s weeping from the usual area in the top corner.


I managed to add another little piece to the cars past history as a Volvo press car in the form of this Volvo 1995 BTCC marketing flyer, which included a picture of the car with one of the Volvo race cars!

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Nice history and a lovely car

[Jay-Kay-Em]

The power of google has brought me here via this registration mark and that very same BTCC brochure in my collection.

I was performing some research into Volvo press cars of the era.

Fabulous car by the way. Very jealous! Hope all is well.

I am restoring a Volvo 480 Turbo and I am doing some digging into its history.

My registration mark is M***SFC…. August 1994.

FC is the regional identifier for Oxford.

My car has an original history file and the opening PDI at 19 miles is not by a dealer. It is simply stamped “VOLVO CARS WHEATLEY OXON”

To the best of my knowledge there was never a Volvo dealer in Wheatley and I have done some enquiries in the town.

I have subsequently discovered a long since disappeared “Volvo PDI Centre” occupying Lye Hill quarry in Wheatley. This is now occupied by Walters Coaches. This centre would manage the import and delivery of Volvo internal cars; such as press cars, Volvo fleet cars, police cars and such like.

If you look through all magazines of the time, 1994, 5, 6 and 1997 many of the press cars had SFC, TFC or PFC marks.

It would mean a lot to my research if your car also displayed “VOLVO CARS WHEATLEY OXON” in its glovebox manual, service book or history file. Would it be possible to check?

One of my tasks is to make some original number plates in the pre-2001 font. This thread is invaluable to understanding what those plates looked like – plane jane apparently with just VOLVO in blue font at the bottom. I would imagine our original plates came out the same machine months apart.

Like I say if you could check any literature your car may have that would be awesome.

All the best

JKM