gmsgltr

and you listed the ohlins! what suspension do you have now?

right right right! 

if i get a tesla tattoo does that help at all? elon is my spirit animal.

not interested in ev - making fun of the poster lol

id buy a polestar. my brand loyalty is silly.

I can still modify my ev fine

amazon has stickers and add on vents and they are cheap too

If Ben wont I can help make that happen getting these to you... I need some parts from Sweden that we can make a swap on... they wont ship to USA but they will to the Netherlands...

https://www.bneshop.com/collections/p80/products/93-97-m56-spherical-shift-bearings

Shanequa

best option stateside is the spherical bearings from BNE Dynamics

great products - dont use them often but have used them the last year or two with success 

honestly more grateful that i dont have to use them 

recently too the gb40 on the plane with me to go buy a car in michigan and drive it home. trusted it to charge my phone/jump the car in the cold if i needed it but then... didnt need it... so, im happy with that too lol

great product

i have the noco genius10 and the noco boost plus gb40 as a lithium jump starter to travel with etc 

13 hours ago, Brad850 said:

I'll fuckin do it babe. I'll car fax anything. I'll car fax you how do ya like that??

if you are so interested in car faxin me check your sellll fonn ya bish

how does carfax work these days - anybody on here with the hookup?

in the process of buying new ipd front sway mounts/poly bushings - mine are plenty old enough and have never been re-lubed

Awesome - I love that the hatch opens to the cab too 

i think its my rack too - i need to purge/replace fluid to start

i just had a pretty lengthy alignment at a local shop after re-doing the entire suspension with coilovers... my alignment, to me, is fine 

only things that arent new are the control arms and tie rods (but they have less than 20kmiles but are probably 10 years old)

1 minute ago, gmsgltr said:

i think its my rack too - i need to purge/replace fluid to start

i just had a pretty lengthy alignment at a local shop after re-doing the entire suspension with coilovers... my alignment, to me, is fine 

only things that arent new are the control arms and tie rods (but they have less than 20kmiles but are probably 10 years old)

 

and to add - the steering is only super loose on highway - i can make minor adjustments with the wheel and nothing happens. my buddy said to adjust toe to see

how often do you kids replace your control arms on your p80 AND with what? Lemforder is the OE right?

Its the only thing in my entire suspension that I havent replaced as of late in years (its been done back in the day) and I still have loose steering on the highway (maybe its the 'toe'?) and what hurts the most is some noises/clunk on small low speed bumps (axles are relatively new too - raxle axles in fact)

at one point that was a VERY rare sought after scooter. I remember those days.

anyone on here can check a vin to see if it has the polestar optimization?

had to look that up... had no idea subaru was making that... and i keep up with new cars quite a bit i thought... nice!

everyone i know around me has Lyme disease including myself - ticks are everywhere here in SE PA

Matt this is soo cool man - ive said it before... i hope you are proud, this is amazing.

welp, i asked on the facebook group... lets see what i get lol. 

17 hours ago, andyb5 said:

A couple friends have quick jacks. I’ve never put my car up on them, but having worked on other cars on them, they’re plenty stable - more so than regular jackstands.
 

If you’re buying a pair, the 12V model is apparently the best lift speed and you can power it from your car battery or even a jump pack if needed. 

They do come with riser blocks of different heights if you don’t want to lift your car directly with the jack “platform” on the pinch weld. 

any of those friends volvo friends? they lift their volvos from the pinch welds?

Gabe those are nice jack stands - i have seen those around before and know of lots of great comments about them. Love your bmw!

i dont have the height for a true lift... if i did i would have prioritized money towards that a long time ago. the quickjack, when on sale seems like a decent medium, its still pricey but seems a fuck ton safer and easier than jacks and stands or ramps etc.

i want to do the entire rear end of the 850 and cant have it up in the air at the rear jack points (deltas) because i need to replace them haha - so the pinch weld idea suits me well. 

i've thought the same, regarding tipping... and there are vids of people leaning in to them while raised and even the stress tests... I think once I see it in person, and add additional support under the car I will feel comfortable. 

Just not 100% sold on this 'use the pinch welds' approach on our cars - especially with the plastic rocker panel terminating there too and could easily get compromised when lifting. 

Probably better off asking this on the facebook page but always hesitant with that lol

Anybody on here use a 'quick jack'?

https://www.quickjack.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImIXrtI7R8QIVDyitBh3kAwK9EAAYASAAEgIdk_D_BwE

I have access to one, and kinda need it for some of the work I have planned but have a concern... The 850 lift points are super far apart, and they arent colinear. 

Saw this on MVS and the guy lifted his 855R by the pinch welds (Page 3 midway down). I havent looked too closely at this yet but have never lifted any of my P80s over the years from here.

Thoughts?

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=83367&start=20