u/Cessnaporsche01

Not a V70, XC70, or anything else like that. Honest to goodness 850 with AWD.

I'd known the things were rare, but I didn't realize HOW rare until I went looking this summer wanting to find one. Apparently, according to volvoclub.org.uk only 2,021 were produced, with 1,712 being LHD. With dwindling numbers of these things around, I expect the surviving totals to be 3-figure in number.

Anyone ever encountered or owned one of these rare birds?

I am beginning to feel compelled to seek out the ultimate weird little car. Imagine owning a manual, AWD, 850 wagon... assuming there's even one of those left.

I have a very different car that has several restrictions in its cabin preventing fitment of typical aftermarket sport seats, but have seen a couple posts indicating that the Evo X Recaros will fit without modification if adapted to my factory sliders. These seats are reasonably affordable, but far from cheap so I don't what to buy them and then find out they won't work.

So can anyone tell me what the side-to-side width of your seats is at the bottom rear (basically where the seat back hinges) and also the thickness of the bottom cushion at its thinnest point (rounded to the 0.5" or cm is fine).

Thanks very much to anyone willing to help me out!

I'm doing the oil pump and have the serpentine pulley/harmonic balancer off, but the timing belt pulley is pretty stuck. Wanted to know for sure if I can just go ham with a wheel puller, or if there's something keeping it in place that I need to remove first?

Your shared knowledge is appreciated, thanks!

I probably encountered this song in the mid- to late-2000s, maybe 2007-2009, and it had the sound of like '90s or early-'00s punk, alt-rock, or grunge boyband music.

The only lyrics I can recall atm were a verse containing "up high in the stra-to-sphere" and a refrain of "sky high yeah yeah." Male singer, guitar-lead melody.

The website I heard it on back in the day was primarily American, but had a disproportionately large population of Frenchmen and Brazilians iirc, but the song lyrics were definitely in English.

Can anyone rescue me from this extremely fragmented earworm?