Category Archives: Cars, Boats, ATVs

Fixing the car… again…

Mid October. Gorillaz concert. Lets take the Volvo. Approach a peculiar intersection I’ve crossed a thousand times. I have to turn left crossing 3 oncoming lanes. They have a stop sign, I don’t. My crossing the intersection safely depends heavily on the other drivers’ understanding of the right of way. So I’m half way through […]

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Volvo CANBUS tinkering

This is a topic that has been attempted many times by many people, and never seems to get anywhere (except for one person who capitalized on his findings). If you work for Volvo or whoever developed VIDA, don’t be mad, I love your software like I love my car, and I just want to make […]

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This car hates me, but it would die for me.

“I will give my life to protect my driver” It seems to be the best phrase to describe a Volvo. All Volvos are engineered around safety. Like, the designers come up with this super-safe system of safety features, and then hand it off to the engineers and say “make it all fit in the chassis”. […]

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Wheels

I finally got a new set of wheels installed, to replace the cracked Pegasus wheels. Interestingly, two days later the Pegs were stolen from my property. It turns out it was just a cokehead looking for scrap money, and the wheels are no longer road-safe, so not a big deal. If it were someone looking […]

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Owning the S60R

This car is a beauty. It’s a monster. It’s a volvo! Seriously, a volvo. You know that, you searched google looking for a solution to an R problem and came across this post. Why this car? Volvo is known for boxy cars that perform well, and put infamous amounts of R+D time and money into […]

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Cars

INTRO I have too many cars, but I want more always. My daily driver / project car / expensive passion is a 2005 Volvo S60R, Black Sapphire on Atacama. My wifes daily driver is a 2nd generation Honda CR-V. We also have a 1967 Impala “Metallicar”, and two Honda Accords, a 90 CB7 and a […]

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