ICEDVOVO
Lost track of the guy who did some custom CV joints/ drive shafts for me - said he could make anything for me.
Anyone have a good supplier for new stock drive shafts ?
ICEDVOVO
courtesy of the spare parts thread via james
www.sydneycvjoints.com.au
any others?
Ex850R
From Melbourne, @iceton1975?
ICEDVOVO
Hey Snoopy, On a tight budget here......
Sons car, fresh out of uni with a $50000 HECS debt for his mech eng degree.
Doing an UNPAID full time internship for 3 months certifying dodgy chinese parts for a major Intnl company.
And I am broke and cant help him.
jamesinc
Sydney driveshaft are good, they sell rebuilt units for $100+ dollars per side. There's a $20 core refund also
Ex850R
The rear driveshaft?
ICEDVOVO
Yep. There's the problem. It's the rear drive shaft and 99% of the shops will need the old ones as a template.
Car is missing the old ones.
Anyone got some buggered ones we could use as a template?
Yep , for a 98v V70XC.
Came across a 99 V70R auto yesterday. Secreted away in a private city laneway! Guy standing in a doorway nearby happened to be the owner & I said to the guy if you ever want to sell it let me know. Then he says I'll get the keys and you can make me an offer. In the 1 minute I had with the car (all the time I had because she who must be obeyed was with me) I established its all stock ,body Ok, front seats are shot from sun damage - it's parked in full sun with concrete all around. Looks like its been sitting a while , has plates and ran an RMS check - been out of rego 6 years. But no bad smell inside and car looked clean. Horrible fake woodgrain interior. Must be something majorly wrong with it since its been unregistered so long. Didn't have time to look under bonnet but the owner was keen to show me.
R badges everywhere and the dolby speaker had a hard case on it instead of a grille. Never seen that before.
He says it starts. It recognised the key but battery so weak even the instruments wouldn't light up.
Unknown km.
If I wasn't so broke time and cash wise I would make an offer. Its probably too good a car to use for parts for my sons car but what the heck the one and only diff I can find is $300 so if I gave him a $1000 it might work out ok. I need to find out more so I might go back for another look when wife is not around.
But then there' the issue of nowhere to park it., not to mention what my wife would say.
Neighbours here will jump on the phone if you fart. I've got vacant land around the corner I could park it on but council will say I'm using it as a junkyard and slap an order on me. The psychologist who overlooks the place and the doctor down that driveway are both nutters so they'll be first ones to ring. So tempting though.
I'll take some jumper leads and have another look. If I don't take it or if he wants too much I'll write up a review and put it out there with the guy's details.
Ex850R
Woodgrain and pretend speaker doesn't sound good.
But, they can be add ons.
500 at most considering its unknown.
ICEDVOVO
Spoke to him this arvo.
Its his dads car now....
Says his dad has 8 registered cars and a pile of UNregistered ones.
Guys got a car collection problem.
But haven't we all.
Says 170K, timing belt, plugs & leads done and no issues.
Couldn't tell me if AWD enabled or not.
But willing to let me drive it around the labyrinth of laneways in that part of the city.
Says 4K
Me thinks see you later.
Speaker thingo looks genuine Volvo - same shape & size, same colour ; maybe its just some kind of after market sun cover but there was a cutaway part in one corner. Weird, I'm so curious now i'll do a Volvo accessory search.
But I'll have a proper look when I get the time.
Just for the hell of it.
4000 is just a number after all.
I could live with the woodgrain
I only it were real like in the old jags and my uncle's Hillman Australian De-Luxe !!
ICEDVOVO
It's on a registered trailer at the moment so maybe there was no room at the ranch but there was a spare parking place at the family enterprise in the city. Lots of mechanical workshops in that area too. Hope HIS grille doesn't go missing parked out the back in the laneway. Maybe the trailer and car might go missing. Easy pickings really.
Midnight Spares for my sons V70R.
Ex850R
Careful..
Ex850R
The dolby speaker does sit up and has a tweeter in there too.
If sitting for 5 years then there are a lot of things needing replacing, a total Stage 0.
The ancient hoses for one, may still just work on a car kept running but stuffed now.
This is a bit like the "mint" black ex diplomatic v70r with beige interior at a wrecker here in Melbourne, obviously one of the business owners old cars and I mean long ago.
Half dismantled under bonnet, windows open, all leather rock hard, turbo hose off and bonnet up.
Wants 10k for it every year for many years he has it up on Internet sales site....
I'm the only one that's been there, all the others see the price, talk to him and laugh.
I confirmed their suspicion...
ICEDVOVO
Too much on my plate but If I get the time or inclination....
Like that "mint" black one I am sure it will still be there.
My Dad liked Vanguards in his early years and I remember him selling his beloved Spacemaster to a crazy old car hoarder who stuffed him round for a week or two after paying a deposit. In the end he took the car but a few days later his family turned up at our place and pleaded with Dad to take the car back , saying he had no money to pay his bills and scolding my father for selling it to him!
It's a weird addiction /affliction/ obsession. Gives you a high for a day or so then reality sets in and you get the remorse. Like getting married really.
Ex850R
Oooooh! Now that subject is worthy of a new thread!
I work for a hoarder....
Won't buy simple things for the job or workers yet buys auction crap, simple high, moves on, stores said crap where we need space...
Scatter brain, very smart but stupid.
ICEDVOVO
I worked out why the dolby speaker has a hard plastic cover.
It's Factory Navigation!!!
It's a 1998 navigation & RTI system. There's a fold up screen in there and somewhere else in the car - probably glove box there's a cd rom unit which drives it. How rare is that?
I'll start a new thread just for this.
http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?136064-1998-V70-R-with-Factory-Nav
Ex850R
Yes it is!
Now to get an android device with GPS, connect somehow to that screen for satnav!