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2026. 8. 24. 작업

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Back in March I returned a 2019 Volvo V90 Cross Country that I'd leased through the somewhat infamous Santander deal. It was a great car for a great price and I'd grown very fond of it's comfy wallowing ways, like a favourite old jumper. It was a big departure from the Golf R and M135i that had come before it, but a newborn child had made me value different things in a family car. I've got some history with Volvos, at the time that I passed my test as a teenager my father had a Volvo S80 as a company car, the weirdness of fleet insurance policies meant that 17y/o me was somehow insured to driv

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The first repair after getting it home was to attend to the rear boot handle, it was sticking open and had to be forced back into the closed position to allow the boot to latch. The metal bar that the plastic handle pivots on was quite crusty, with some wire brushing and penetrating oil I got it to move freely again.That evening whilst my wife was out at a yoga class I set about wet-vacing the boot.It took nearly two hours for the juices to run clear, the plush Volvo carpet can certainly hold a lot of mud. I removed four containers like this just from the boot before I moved onto the footwells.In the daylight of the next day I was quite pleased with the result, most of the emulsion also came out once the water had spent a little time dwelling on it.I popped to Euro Car Parts and picked up a new set of front wiper blades, the set that it came with were doing nothing to clear the screen.The wiper arms were also looking quite tatty and you can see them when sat behind the wheel, so I removed them, gave them a quick rub down with some wet and dry and treated them to a few coats of Aldis best matt black spray paint.I'm not entirely sure why, but whilst the bonnet was lifted I felt obliged to give the engine bay a quick clean.The front numberplate screws had suffered from being in Cornwall, there's obviously much bigger issues going on at the front of the car but they're not quite as easily resolved I've ordered a replacement upper and lower grille, but they're on the slow planes from Lithuanian and Latvia. I don't think I'll do anything about the bruise in the silver splitter for now.I also attended to the trim moulding that was peeling on both sides. All of my cars seem to end up held together by PU glue at some point, the V90 was no exception after it had a small argument with a deer one morning.The offside now sits perfectly, the nearside (that had the welding magnet holding it down) had been bent out of shape a little and isn't quite as keen to sit flush. It's good e