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 Post subject: My volvo hates me :)
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:34 am 
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So.. in the last 24 hours, the car has managed to somehow destroy my wastegate, so now boost creeps as high as it wants to.. and i have to sort of regulate boost with my foot (I never let it go higher than 5-6 psi)

my windshield wipers decided to stop working all together yesterday, when all the rain started (figures)

I've said it before, I'll say it again - Volvos don't like me :)

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:13 am 
Haha, I just built a W24 Octo-Turbo, now what?!
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stop shredding their fans and killing their rads then!!

:P

i figure as with me as well, once it breaks....at least i know the condition of the replacement

you know? sometimes it just wants new parts

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:01 am 
Haha, I just built a W24 Octo-Turbo, now what?!
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Is it the wastegate, or just the hose TO the wastegate thats split or disconnected?

Wipers, I hear ya. Mine crapped out doing 120 in a rainstorm coming back from the mountains. Luckily I had given the windshield a rain-x treatment not too long before so all I had to do was keep it around 120 to keep the rain off. If the motors not dead, chances are one of the wiper arms has come off the pivot behind the dash. REALLY fun to contort yourself under there...

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:41 pm 
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swedishmeatballrocket wrote:
Is it the wastegate, or just the hose TO the wastegate thats split or disconnected?

Wipers, I hear ya. Mine crapped out doing 120 in a rainstorm coming back from the mountains. Luckily I had given the windshield a rain-x treatment not too long before so all I had to do was keep it around 120 to keep the rain off. If the motors not dead, chances are one of the wiper arms has come off the pivot behind the dash. REALLY fun to contort yourself under there...


The motor crapped out, lol - nothing happens when I turn it on, and the arms are just limp :)

I'm gonna rain-x it and just take off the wipers :)

Its probably just the vacuum hose to/from the wastegate thats fucked. I'll take a look at it tonite or tomorrow.. right now, im just happy to be home :)

The car is nice at 9psi in 4th btw :) lol

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:31 pm 
Somehow completely sideways in 4th
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thats crazy my wastegate hose split last week....

Oh well as long as your careful you wont hurt your car plus replacing the hose takes about 3 minutes and 60 cents.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:00 pm 
Haha, I just built a W24 Octo-Turbo, now what?!
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... replacing the hose takes about 3 minutes and 60 cents.


Hey Raz, I will give you the money :D

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:52 pm 
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sweet, Ian loves me and is gonna give me 60 cents! W00t!!! :)

I LESS THAN THREE VOLVORD!Z@$!%#@^#@# omfg :) :D :D :D


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