At long last I have gotten on with the Volvo exhaust job. I’ve not been that keen to do it, as it’s not a nice job in my eyes. Last night I got the parts off, partly using the grinder and a slitting disk. Then using my new wire brush in the grinder to clean up the pipes and sprayed painted them with aluminium oxide paint for exhausts. I ordered a second hand exhaust pipe from a breaker on ebay, this is shown in the photo below with the pipes lying on the ground so that I could work out how I was going to make it work.
I got the Volvo out and made some ramps to get it up so that I might see if taking the exhaust off was a good plan or not. The hole in the exhaust is worse since I picked at it. I also had a good dig round the wheel arch, sill and floor plan joint, now there is a massive hole: The car has gone in for a quote to repair…. could be the end for the Volvo.
I have only owned 3 Volvo 300 series cars and only had this one for about 7 years now, so how is it that I have never noticed that Volvo chose to proudly advertise the fact that they’d chosen to use standard H4 bulb/lamps by embossing it right into the lens itself.
Took a spin in the Volvo to Seatown beach the other week. It’s a stunning beach with this meandering stream running down it, constantly cutting a new route though the beach. Abigail had wonderful fun jumping over it, in it and getting very wet.
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