looks good

 

Thread from the dead!

Resize those pics!

 

It never hurts to have a thread revival now and then :lol:

I copied them straight from facebok and thats why they're a bit big

 

Love a bit of oem+
Done the same job on my old audi
Sport to sline spec

 

Yeah that's a popular mod on the audi's isn't it ?

 

Verry especially on the older ones ( see above ) the new audi I have now everyone tends to opt for s3 bumpers.
On the older ones you can see the diffrence from sport to sline but one the new ones ( like my avatar ) its very difficult to tell as they have the same fogs, both have a chin that comes out and non numb strips

 

Here is the one I done with the upgrades fogs too
Sport bumper

Sline number with new fogs and grills

 

Looks good matey, I did a similar thing to my 2008 Astra Estate, It went from this:

To this:

Full Astra VXR front end conversion consisting of bumper and grille with Bi-Xenon headlights...

 

I actually hydraulic'ed the car the other day in a deep puddle :wall: Managed to restart after clearing water from the lower turbo pipe and from the injector inlets, but it's clearly got damage

I've now just bought a 67,000 mile second-hand engine to refit myself - to replace the now dead 125,000 mile engine!

Silly silly me! Silver lining is at least my now-9-year old car will have a low mileage engine, new clutch and cambelt!

While it's off the road I'm going to take off he front and rear bumpers and get them repainted. After I've gone to the effort of the engine work I'm going to want to make sure the rest of the car is perfect so I can be proud of it!

 

I think it looks the dogs, the alloys really suit it too! I don't know if you've bought a personal number plate but I think that with it looking like a 08 model with a 04 plate then it would look like a personal one to any passer by :thumb:

 

I can pretend HJG are my initials!

 

I just realised I'd blanked my reg off the pics! So that statement made no sense to anyone! lol

 

Certainly can shame to hear about the engine, what happened? Did you try doing a bit of offroading? lol

 

I just went through a puddle, a tad deeper than I thought, car cut out in the middle of it, turns out I'd taken in water. Got it working again but it's not right, likely I've bent one of the conrods, possibly a valve or two. Was going to fix rather than replace, but I don't know if I were to repair one part, that I hadn't damaged, or weakened another part.

Quote to repair the conrod £400, but needed the engine completely removed, head taken off etc. Parts add up to about £400 tpp, so wasn't a cheap option.

If I'm taking the engine out anyway... I found a 67,000 mile engine for a grand that I've just bought! Currently my car's on nearly 130,000 so I'm happy to spend £200 more for that! (If I can trust the 'one elderly owner' story from the breakers!!)

Oh, I had a look and can get 'V50 BNB' for £399!! Methinks right now the wife would kill me! Not the sort of mod I can do unnoticed!

 

Need some pressed plates

 

BenB can you help me, i am planning a facelift on my V50. I have the bumpers already.

 

Hi, What help do you need?
If you have the bumpers already you just need the lights (and of course all grilles etc for the bumpers!)
Make sure with the rear lights you get the breakers to include all the connectors and a few inches of the wire (get them to cut them off, not just unplug and send you the lights alone) As the main connector plug is different and you need to remove the pins from your old lights and figure out which pin location to plug them in on, on the new lights.

There's a little yellow tab on the rear lights' connector that helps to release all the pins so you can prise them out with a skinny screwdriver. Which pin goes where I'm afraid I can't help you with. You just have to work that out against your old light but looking at where the metal tracks lead etc!

It's been a while now, but as far as I can remember everything bolts straight on and the lights slip straight in there places too. You only need vut back the plastic behind the radiator grille.

 

Here's my thread on Volvoforums: http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=98596

 

I'll try and get a photo, not sure how helpful it will be though - just sit down with the old and new lights and look at which bulbs the metal tracks from the connector lead to. It wasn't that hard, just impossible to remember!

No reason why the parking sensors wouldn't work, perhaps the size woudl have changed but I doubt it- - I don't have Volvo parking sensors - just some £12 ebay ones and they fit the original Volvo bumper holes (make sure you source a bumper with the original sensor holes, they are a bit more shaped than just holes drilled through!)

 

Hi BenB,

I am installing this week the new bumpers and lights ect... A question about the rear light, the upper wire in the old upper light needs to go to the lower new light. Do you remember how you fit two cables in one plug hole for the pinker lights?

I also have changed the plastic fitting were the new bumper clicks in, because the old fitting looks different. You also did that?

 

Hi JDRulez,
I don't remember changing anything about how the bumper mounts - the lower edge flaps about a bit as the mounting points down there are different, (but I can live with that), but I can't remember changing anything else.

If I'm honest, I'd love to be helpful but I can't remember any details about the wiring at al, it's just a matter of figuring out what you need, where each of the old bulbs were, new ones need to be etc. I may have just used a crimp-on piggyback connector to join two together, perhaps soldered them! I'm so sorry I really can't remember!!