New Joiner with 850! And a few questions

[attila]

Well I’m completely new to Volvos having owned VAG for many years. I have bought myself a 1996 850 T5. Comes with the following mods:

- m4.4 ecu - I believe it was done by Oblark (greetings!)
- sports stainless exhaust
- i think they are Eibach coilovers adjustable, not sure
- poly engine mounts

The previous owner has looked after it very well a credit to him and the iwner before that. Really pleased so far.

I have a few questions -

I have the original ECU as well as the m4.4. I’m told that the m4.4 which is in the car did not enable the A/C to work. Reading up about this on other forums it seems common. Is there a way I could get A/C to work with the m4.4?

I am used to VCDS software which has been amazing for VAG cars allowing me to download fault codes but also plot and log boost graphs etc. Is there an equivalent for Volvo that anyone would recommend?

I’ll try and get a few more pics but here it is (against my octavia vrs tsi remapped to 300bhp). The volvo keeps the octabia honest!