The Nanstone - 2.0 16v CR - GTB2056VLK build

[Ruan]

So - been a good year now since it sorta went off the road, new job, moving house twice, using the Volvo more etc.

Finally decided to put it back on the road, needs use, only so much Volvo loving one man can have... First thing is to get an MOT on it, now it had a load of new parts shortly before it went off the road - new wishbones, TREs, tyres, shockers, refurb beam etc.

After the "altercation" with the bus quite a while back now, the interior has needed fixing as the side airbag went off - there's some pics somewhere of that I'll put in here.

So got a replacement "leafy" interior from a breaking P3 XSi.


Doing the under seat wiring - decided to sack off the original connectors now to save any problems in the future. Massive ballache though, did all the connections again, airbag light still isn't off - we're thinking that the sensor modules down on the sills on P3s with Side Airbags are also requiring replacement - would make sense, so need a pair of those to go in also. Replaced the main Airbag ECU also with the one from the XSi, hopefully this should stop the light and re-activate it! Hopefully borrowing a PP2k so I can plug in and read the ECU, should at least tell me which leads it's having an issue with.


Gotta love Manstone - been sat for 4 months, still looks clean


Reminds me every time how horrible that pin dent is on the rear - one of those jobs that needs sorting some day.

Video when it uploads of the cold start after ~2 months - XUD reliability right there!



And some reminiscing of the older one back in the day - hopefully once there's MOT I'll have the motivation to finally get my GTB that I've had sat round for a year