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My parents' car, a 2008 Volvo S40 2.4i 5cylinder with automatic, leather, power driver seat. It was sold around the end of September 2016 with about 152,750 miles on it.
My parents bought this car brand new. That car was pretty cool. Mechanically the car was still in very good condition. Engine felt like new, no vibrations or strange noises that didn't happen when it was new. The transmission worked pretty much like new, never hunted for gears and was very smooth. Amazingly everything worked. We never had problems with windows, lights, rubber going bad, door locks, radio, controls, digital displays, analog displays, etc.
The only problems we had with the car throughout its lifetime were: (1) the car once went into limp mode where it felt like the engine was running on only 2 cylinders. Pulled off to the side of the road and shut off the car and started it back up and the problem was gone. This happened when the car was fairly new. (2) One time we shut the car off but one part within the engine didn't turn off. It started making a high pitch whining noise and we monitored it and see if it would turn off in time. It began to smoke a little so we put the key in, turned on the car, shut it off, and everything shut off. Very strange, but it never happened again. Happened when the car was pretty new. (3) About 3 times the electronic trunk release switch didn't work. Two times it was because the cables going to the trunk were moved enough (when opening the trunk) that the wires broke. One time the actual trunk release mechanism broke (a plastic piece). (4) One time we went to start up the car but it wouldn't start (nothing happened when turning the key except getting an error message in the dash). We waited a few minutes and tried again and it started right up.
Not really a problem, but we noticed if you turned the key to start the car and didn't keep it in the start position long enough you would occasionally get a rough start but it would eventually start after about 5-10 seconds.
What I didn't like about the car: The ride was VERY stiff. You felt everything in this car. It did handle okay, but the ride was too stiff for my preference (not even my little mx-5 is anywhere near that stiff). When sitting in the front with the windows down the wind would hit the B pillar and, due to the way the pillar was shaped, it would channel the wind straight into my ear. I got more wind blow in this car than any other I've ridden in, including my convertible. Putting the rear window down on the same side would help, but it was still rough. I wish the car had a key to open the trunk. The electronic trunk release was prone to failure and was not cheap to replace. The low beam headlights were pointed down very low and made it VERY hard to see in front. I asked my parents to see if these could be adjusted up a little higher but they never checked. The high beams worked amazing! The front seat belts had a design that was *supposed to* automatically adjust the seat belt vertical locations of the shoulder strap (it was like an L shaped cut in the B pillar). Unfortunately it was shaped poorly and never worked for me. The shoulder strap was always too low for my preference. Not so much a problem with the car itself, but owning a Volvo can be very expensive to repair if you are not prepared to buy the parts yourself and do the work yourself. The car wasn't really a driver's car. The steering wheel had no feel and the car had a fair amount of body roll (which was shocking considering how stiff the car was setup). The car had a 'feature' where if you partially moved the indicator lever it would blink 3 times. If you moved it all the way it would lock in and stay on. What usually happed with my dad is he would do a full signal and the indicator wouldn’t self cancel (steering wheel didn't turn enough) so he would need to manually shut it off but when he did he would go past center slightly to the other side and the car would signal 3 times in the opposite direction. It was confusing for him because he wasn't sure if the signal was now on in the other position or was only doing 3 blinks. It also was confusing for other drivers. If you are in the fast line, signal to go into the slow lane, shut off the signal and now it signals 3 times to go back in the fast lane.... I didn't like this.
I liked how mechanically reliable this car was. I also like the glass they used in this car (made by Saint-Gobain). The glass seemed higher quality and relatively resistant to getting dirty. I liked the quality of the paint and clear coat on the car. This car was almost never garaged and for the first 5 years was out in the New England winters and the past 3 years out in the Florida sun. Despite this the paint and clear coat still cleaned up almost like new (with the exception of one of the rear quarter panels where it was hit and poorly repaired (repainted)). I also liked how stupidly simple the car was. The audio controls, radio, cruise control, car settings, buttons, were all so intuitive! Besides the blasted 3 blink indicator thing, the car didn’t have extra fluff features. The windshield wipers covered almost the whole windshield! I liked how the front hood and rear trunk were on shocks. It made it very easy to open them and the trunk didn't have large bars intruding into the trunk. I also like how sturdy most of the car felt. The doors had a nice clunk when they were closed. Almost nothing felt cheap or fragile.
The car served us very well and we were all sad to see it go. My dad isn’t the best at repairing cars and the cost for Volvo to do repairs is prohibitively high. We don’t know how much longer the car would have gone before serious repairs were needed, but my parents didn’t want to chance it and opted to get a new vehicle.
I think if you can find one of these in well kept condition with a stick shift this would be a fun tuner car. Lower it slightly, flare out the wheels a bit, and modify the exhaust. It’s got a great shape to it and looks cool!
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This railtrack scale is located at Kepa Zawadowska in Warsaw enroute to the EC Siekierki heat- and powerplant. It is built into the track and measures the weight of 4-axle cars, which bring coal to EC Siekierki. The speed at the scale must be reduced to 3 to 5 km/h max. to allow proper operation. The length of the measuring track is exactly to match the Eaos/Eas railcars' length.
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Keolis No. 1405 splits the automatics at Arlington Street in Acton Ma as they make a run from Boston to Wachusett NBH photo Feb 2021
One evening in 2009, I went to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. This year, I returned to the city and dropped by the Real Canadian Wholesale Club that can be found on the edge of town. It appears that they now Gyro Tech doors, which replace doors from Horton Automatics that used to be here. Well... that's for the main entrance. Here, there appears to be an older Gyro Tech door, but its functionalities no longer exist. Notice the wood and the yellow stuff coming from the door? It's not going to move ever again.
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Can't believe the amount of these I saw there... the auto transmission did catch on people when the 205 was for sale it seems. Haven't seen any in Spain though.
Seen in Biarritz (Aquitaine) (France).
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Koffeeone import the Best Coffee Machines from Italy and Europe for your workplace, your café, your restaurant, registered club or hotel. Koffeeone are now leading the way with the distribution of our Carimali Automatic Coffee Machines , these wonderful Espresso Coffee Machines are recognized as some of the very Best Coffee Machines on the market. Our flagship machine is the Carimali Multi Commercial Coffee Machines , we have also introduced to our range the Carimali Armonia Commercial Coffee Machines . We have many articles in our news section for you to read and view about our customers who have already installed one of our Espresso Coffee Machines
absolutely delighted to see this Classic big BMW in such great condition, wish all BMW owners looks after their cars like this owner does. Fabric interior (non leather) is in great condition. No good pictures of the front due to it being parked against a wall. The alloy wheels are not great though
Registration Number
BLN717T
Make
BMW
Model
733 I AUTO
Year of manufacture
1978
Engine size (cc)
3295
Recently restored the case of this watch and had the movement serviced. Case was beat up to the point that it was practically given to me. She looks gorgeous now.
Selling this one for an elderly friend of ours.. the lady gave up driving at 89 ( after about 55 years experience) and this really is the proverbial one carefull owner nearly new car: only done 19,000 Kilometers ( that is 11,800 miles). The engine a lovely 3 cilinder purrs like a cat and the 7 speed auto shifts like a knife through butter.
So there you have it: my challenge for this Summer hols : sell this lovely quality car!
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This is a Voigtlander Vito automatic, its a really heavy and a bit chunky. I did try putting a film in it, but it felt like it wasn't winding on, i think this turned out to be a super smooth winding mechanism. oh well, i'll give it another go soon.
if anyone has one of these, please let me know what its like.