Just bought a tank :-)

i might conceivably spend a few hours trying to fix the sender unit, but no way would i spend more than 20-30 quid on a new one on a £200 car. If you want to spend some money on spare parts buy a spare fuel pump relay. then if the car mysteriously stops working for no obvious reason, you can swap the relay and hopefully get yourself going again. (you also need a couple of thin screwdrivers to change the relay, so make sure you have these too or you have no chance of swapping it, some people use cocktail sticks)
 
I'm not sure "tank" is the right word to describe something that can be absolutely destroyed by a crash with a new Twingo.
 
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They had it on one of the car programs maybe 5th Gear can't remember but they hit them head on at 40mph odd and the Volvos front passanger/drivers legs etc were crushed by intrusion from the dash/engine bay, the main shell bent so the doors etc could not open. In the Twingo footwells had no intrusion and the doors opened etc, shows how much crash protection has advanced in the last 20 years.
 
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Dangerous Dave said:
They had it on one of the car programs maybe 5th Gear can't remember but they hit them head on at 40mph odd and the Volvos front passangers legs etc were crushed by intrusion from the dash/engine bay, the main shell bent so the doors etc could not open. In the Twingo footwells had no intrusion and the doors opened etc, show how much crash protection has advanced in the last 20 years.
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Was a 2004 Modus if i recall correctly, but yes, the volvo did come of worse for the occupants.
 
[TW]Fox;11289753 said:
The car in question was actually a Renault People carrier and not a Twingo, was it not?
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Wolfchild said:
Was a 2004 Modus if i recall correctly, but yes, the volvo did come of worse for the occupants.
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You could be right I remeber watching it but not paying full 100% attention to it. Pretty sure it was very small so not a big people carrier though defo Renault.
 
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The Volvo was well built for its time, there was no NCAP, so no way to test. But I'd rather of been in a Volvo of any description then a British/Italian/French tin can.
 
Yep it was a Modus and the Volvo got destroyed, hardly surprising really, i love people who drive around in old volvos and then think they can survive a serious crash cause its built like a tank...

The Volvo in the crash test folded in quite badly, loads of drive footwell intrusion, the modus on the other hand stood up very well, safety cell stayed intact and the airbags and crumple zones worked well.
 
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Yep it was a Modus and the Volvo got destroyed, hardly surprising really, i love people who drive around in old volvos and then think they can survive a serious crash cause its built like a tank...

The Volvo in the crash test folded in quite badly, loads of drive footwell intrusion, the modus on the other hand stood up very well, safety cell stayed intact and the airbags and crumple zones worked well.
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I'd be disgusted if the Modus didn't perform better than the Volvo, given the massive gap in design years between the two and recent (last 10 years or so) leaps in safety standards.
 
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I'd be disgusted if the Modus didn't perform better than the Volvo, given the massive gap in design years between the two and recent (last 10 years or so) leaps in safety standards.
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There does seem to be a school of thought around though which appears to believe a big old Volvo is safer regardless of NCAP etc. You're right though, it would be a disgrace if a brand new car from such a safety conscious manufacturer was worse than a 20 year old+ design.
 
Does anyone know how much power the turbo derv version of the 740 ouputs? It's a 2.3... That's all I know so far. I've hunted around and can't find anything. :(
 
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