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S60 T5 manual, venetian red pearl. Has a stainless exhaust and a pod filter at the moment, will get mapped to around 300 - 310HP once I've serviced it and done the plugs etc. Its in tidy condition, the colour is lovely. Will be treating the plastic trims, giving it a polish, and fitting new numberplates etc soon.

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Interior is a bit on the dated side being cream with fake wood trim, but its quite smart now I've given it a bit of a clean up. (With the exception of the seats, which I've ordered some leather cleaner and conditioner for) Ordered some bits from a breaker to smarten it up more, replacement gearknob, centre console, and drivers airbag, as well as some new fitted mats.

I'm surprised by how well it drives considering its size, its not as rolly polly as expected, feels fairly planted for the class of car. And its nice having dual zone climate, cruise, heated seats etc. Drove through some bonfire smoke earlier too and it automatically changed to re-circ :eek:

Very peaceful at speed as well with most of the noise being from the "Kingstar" tyres. I've ordered a new set of boots to go on it as well, because despite seeming reasonable in this warm dry weather, I doubt they will be up to much when conditions deteriorate.

Oh and the sound system is excellent, and the turning circle is abysmal.
 
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I've always liked the Volvo S60/V70 of that era, it's just a shame that it has such a low end-looking manual gear lever. It lets down an otherwise smart-looking interior.
 
Acme's one has the expensive option one that's highly desirable, believe it or not!

The normal one looks like this:
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Both dreadful though (space all fractionally less so) and definitely do let the cabin down a bit.
 
Acme said:
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S60 T5 manual, venetian red pearl. Has a stainless exhaust and a pod filter at the moment, will get mapped to around 300 - 310HP once I've serviced it and done the plugs etc. Its in tidy condition, the colour is lovely. Will be treating the plastic trims, giving it a polish, and fitting new numberplates etc soon.

oTWWzdH.jpg


Interior is a bit on the dated side being cream with fake wood trim, but its quite smart now I've given it a bit of a clean up. (With the exception of the seats, which I've ordered some leather cleaner and conditioner for) Ordered some bits from a breaker to smarten it up more, replacement gearknob, centre console, and drivers airbag, as well as some new fitted mats.

I'm surprised by how well it drives considering its size, its not as rolly polly as expected, feels fairly planted for the class of car. And its nice having dual zone climate, cruise, heated seats etc. Drove through some bonfire smoke earlier too and it automatically changed to re-circ :eek:

Very peaceful at speed as well with most of the noise being from the "Kingstar" tyres. I've ordered a new set of boots to go on it as well, because despite seeming reasonable in this warm dry weather, I doubt they will be up to much when conditions deteriorate.

Oh and the sound system is excellent, and the turning circle is abysmal.
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I remember these when I was younger, people used to rave that at the time they were rather rapid cars, is it a 5 pot turbo? Was it another Acme bargain?
 
Cookeh said:
Acme's one has the expensive option one that's highly desirable, believe it or not!

The normal one looks like this:
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Both dreadful though (space all fractionally less so) and definitely do let the cabin down a bit.
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That one looks far better and more in-keeping!
 
Gibbo said:
I remember these when I was younger, people used to rave that at the time they were rather rapid cars, is it a 5 pot turbo? Was it another Acme bargain?
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It is a 5 pot turbo yes, and it does shift considering its size! It was £1000 because it needs a cambelt, but theyre only about 1.5 hours book time on these.

Howard said:
I've always liked the Volvo S60/V70 of that era, it's just a shame that it has such a low end-looking manual gear lever. It lets down an otherwise smart-looking interior.
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As stated above, it is the rare and desirable "space ball" - It looks a bit lost in a cream interior though... Hopefully it will look a bit better with its new knob.

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@Acme you need one of these.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/113542732403?chn=ps
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The cubby should have a cover, which is broken and sitting in the glovebox, the cup holder goes under the cover. The armrest is also broken as you can just about make out in the picture. But I have a replacement complete centre console on the way. :)
 
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Acme said:
It is a 5 pot turbo yes, and it does shift considering its size! It was £1000 because it needs a cambelt, but they're only about 1.5 hours book time on these.
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Easier job on the P2s, less ancillaries to remove though you probably will have to get the cross-brace off. Watch out for the T30 screws holding the cam cover and spark plug cover in place. They tend to seize (steel screws in alu head) and the heads round very easily. Do make sure you only use genuine parts, the failure rate on non-genuine parts (especially Gates) is crazy high for some reason and genuine is pretty reasonably priced - for this reason I'd also recommending doing the idler, rollers and tensioner too - the genuine timing belt kits contain all this anyway. Given you have to remove the serpentine belt to get at the timing belt you should probably also replace that and its tensioner at the same time. I'd also change the waterpump, they aren't known for failing until around 250-300k mi but given you're in there anyway and the pump itself is fairly cheap you might as well for piece of mind. I would personally budget 2-3 hours, and if you're looking for a decent guide FCP Euro on YouTube is an excellent channel for P80 and P2 Volvos.

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The cubby should have a cover, which is broken and sitting in the glovebox, the cup holder goes under the cover. The armrest is also broken as you can just about make out in the picture. But I have a replacement complete centre console on the way.
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The sliding cover wasn't standard equipment, would have depended on spec of the car. Irrelevant though, given you're replacing the whole console. I love that with the P80 cars there were no cupholders as standard, but then when Ford took over and the P2s came out all of a sudden there were 5 in the centre console alone(!) and a dedicated McDonald's fry pack holder. 'Murica.

BTW, is that the only key you got? T5s should have had the flip key holder that was then used in the Aston Vantage.
 
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I'll probably take it to a garage. Supposedly 250 ish incl parts and labour on a P2 2.3.
And thanks for the tip about belts. The interwebs said that Gates were the genuine brand??
 
Parts should total about 120-150 depending on how much of a trade discount your garage gets, so that price sounds fair-ish. Not a particularly hard DIY though, tbh. No definitive answer on who exactly manufacturers Volvo's timing belts (various places cite Dayco or Conti), but there are so many reports of failures with Gates that I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Not really heard of any failures on genuine parts, which whilst speculative would suggest the OEM isn't Gates. I don't know how long you're planning on keeping the car but the price difference between them isn't exactly massive in any case, e.g. would be about 5p per week over the lifetime of the timing belt.

If you buy through FRF Swansea you can normally get decent discounts yourself and a further 10% off citing a Volvo Owners club "member only" code that you can find fairly easily, at one point in Jan they were selling R clutch kits for £99 - gutted I missed out on that one.

For future reference, when it comes to tuning the T5s there are two guys who have by far the best reviews and largest market share - Tim Williams in Coalville and Shem Green (Shemtek) in Ollerton. They will both also sell plenty of upgrade parts for you, and they can both do the necessary block mods (Shem sells them off the shelf too). Shem also sells mapped ECUs that are plug and play, and both are also regarded as the better tuners for the T5s.
 
What is the block mod for the 2.3? I thought it only applied to the 2.5 and consisted of new liners?

I was just going to get an off-the-shelf map. They all seem to be 300HP - 310HP. CelticTuning send someone out to do it on your driveway.
 
Block mods for 2.4 and 2.5 are shimming and/or new liners. 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 also tend to need to go closed deck for big numbers and that's something both the above will do.

I'd personally rather get a properly mapped ECU than a chip/tuning box. More reliable, more consistent, arguably better developed and should give you better results too.
 
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