[Tate2999]

Finally fixed two nagging things today: Forced myself to get back behind the glovebox and snaked out the passenger blend door motor, which is behind another blend door. After many hand cramps, it’s out and the new one is in.

I reset with the Volvo 850 app ( I traded an old broken MacBook for an Android GPD, which is is literally like a Nintendo DS but android). But anyways, it worked and I have a very toasty car now, the wife was very appreciative.
The second nagging thing was correcting my odometer, and I figured a way to do it faster than spin the gear over and over that worked well for me.
The small blue gears that run beneath the mileage are held in place through the middle of themselves with a small metal rod. I pulled out the rod on one side, and fed a paperclip through the other side, replacing the rods spot but giving me space to move them slightly to spin the numbers. After I had the numbers set, I slowly slid the rod back in, pushing out the paperclip and boom I was set! So nice to have a working odometer again. She now sits at 116k.

Next up is repairing my extra dash pad, painting it, and then securing it down nice and tight to avoid lifting, then I’m just gonna get a dash mat to put over it all. After that, I’m going to pull all the plastic wood trim off of the entire dash, and would like to order some new paneling, as the set I have is mismatched and not in great shape. Any suggestions as to where to get the wood trim? What colors do you guys like? I’ve always liked this trim, but maybe it would look odd over black?

 

[mattj456]

Paper clip in the odometer is clever. I also slid the rod out on one side to spin the numbers but it was very tedious and they kept falling out of place

 

[Tate2999]

Paper clip in the odometer is clever. I also slid the rod out on one side to spin the numbers but it was very tedious and they kept falling out of place

So annoying when they keep moving around and falling out of place, I’ve done one before that was like that and it took so long to get it back into its spot. Figured I’d try this this time

 

[Tonyfr]

@JaredR told me that the birch trim is part of the dash. When did you get an R interior?

 

[gofra]

Not sure I understood what exactly your changing on your dash but I always liked beige dash in combination with light wood trim and darker (gray) dash in combination with darker wood trim like I have:

 

[Tate2999]

@JaredR told me that the birch trim is part of the dash. When did you get an R interior?

I swapped my R interior in about a year ago or so, came from an 850R racecar that had no engine or trans anymore.

 

[JaredR]

The wood is veneered onto the main structure of the dash

I spun my odometer forward with a rubber tip on a rod in a drill press without taking anything apart in the odometer.

 

[Tate2999]

The wood is veneered onto the main structure of the dash

I spun my odometer forward with a rubber tip on a rod in a drill press without taking anything apart in the odometer.

Huh, well there’s pieces missing from my dash, so it must come off alright. I’ll probably stick with dark trim, is that something that’s exclusively aftermarket or does Volvo offer that anymore?

 

[JaredR]

Huh, well there’s pieces missing from my dash, so it must come off alright. I’ll probably stick with dark trim, is that something that’s exclusively aftermarket or does Volvo offer that anymore?

You would need to buy the complete dashboard to get it from Volvo. I've never run that PN, but I would be shocked if it's still available.

 

[Tonyfr]

You would need to buy the complete dashboard to get it from Volvo. I've never run that PN, but I would be shocked if it's still available.

The parts diagram looks like it is available in blue for cars without the passenger side airbag.

 

[Tate2999]

Obligatory IKEA pic

she’s running really well right now, I am just loving it to death
I’m actually here to pick up some storage for all the parts in the back 😃

 

[gofra]

Love that wheel / body colour combo - she's a stunner!

 

[Tate2999]

Love that wheel / body colour combo - she's a stunner!

Appreciate it! I like the combo as well

 

[Tate2999]

Ran into two annoying snags today as I tried to mount my wing.
1.) one side has to be drilled and rethreaded

2.) The slot at the top that is threaded is not very deep. The diagram provided a few posts back provided the measurements of the screws I needed, and they are almost twice as long as they should be. So now I’ll have to head back up to salt lake to nut and bolt supply again and get something much shorter.

Anyways, this has been my project the last few days:

this is the spare dash pad I had from the old interior, and with some careful repairs it actually should end up being much better than what I have in there now. Nothing like working on P80 interior plastics lol.

Once the repairs are finished, I’ll paint, mount, and seat, then I’ll get a dash pad cover to blanket over it all anyway.

 

[gofra]

Are you going to document the replacement / repair procedure? Would be nice to see (I think every 850 owner will eventually need to do this )

 

[Tate2999]

Are you going to document the replacement / repair procedure? Would be nice to see (I think every 850 owner will eventually need to do this )

If I’m happy with the results, sure! That is yet to be determined 😂

 

[gofra]

Fingers crossed all goes well!

 

[JaredR]

plastic wood trim

This caught my eye as i was scrolling down to the new posts just now....it is 100% real wood. All P80 factory wood trims are real wood veneer (unless you count "Redwood Effect," which isn't marketed as real wood in the first place, nor does it look it).

 

[mattj456]

This caught my eye as i was scrolling down to the new posts just now....it is 100% real wood. All P80 factory wood trims are real wood veneer (unless you count "Redwood Effect," which isn't marketed as real wood in the first place, nor does it look it).

I pointed this out to someone the other day. They disagreed, so I showed them the spot on my dash where the plastic coating chipped off and you can literally see/feel the grain of the wood. I think the coating on top is what confuses people, and in that way I guess the entire trim isn't 100% wood. But the wood is 100% wood.

 

[JaredR]

I pointed this out to someone the other day. They disagreed, so I showed them the spot on my dash where the plastic coating chipped off and you can literally see/feel the grain of the wood. I think the coating on top is what confuses people, and in that way I guess the entire trim isn't 100% wood. But the wood is 100% wood.

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The chips do give it away. But, even on cars with perfect dashboards, all you have to do is look at two cars to see it varies from car to car.