Vee_Que;21730 wroteIf it's budget wouldn't a Chinese made one be fine? The ones I have seem to be very well made with thick castings etc.
Quite possibly mate, there is also nothing really 'wrong' with the oem one.
As we've discussed before, with some of the common chinese made aluminium radiators and intercoolers, its hard to know what you're buying (quality wise) until its in your hands if you don't know who is making it, materials being used, quality of work, etc.
I'm not trying to do things cheaply though, my point is that you can buy decent hardware and have a good vehicle at the end of it without spending a fortune.
The do88 intercoolers appear to be very good. Tanks on their latest ones are really kool.
I deal with PWR a bit for other things and have a lot of experience with their work for race cars, so I'd be happy going that way too.
PaddlerEd;21732 wroteI reckon that the radiator that was in my V70 was the original until I replaced it at 210,000 miles and 10 years old.... paid about £150 for a genuine Volvo one from FRF in Swansea in the UK.
Sounds about right. I put a genuine one in my 850T5 back in 2005 or so and it was considerably more than that. More recently, they're much cheaper.
