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I recently had Continental Winter Contact 830s fitted to my Volvo S60 (FWD, winter tyre size 205/55/16 against summer tyres on 225/45/17). I drove up from London to Edinburgh for a three day holiday on Saturday, getting back last night. All I can say is - I am a total convert. I...

I'm back safely, now fitted with winter tyres. Pretty good experience really (at the Hampstead/Kentish Town branch) - they were expecting me on arrival, in at 1100 and on my way by 1130. They didn't have any tyre bags - they claimed "they come in a cage mate" - but did spend 5 minutes...

Another big thanks from me - after reading the start of the post I cringed at the thought that my specially purchased alloys would have no tyres to go on them... But then reading further down, I am now booked in at Kwik Fit tomorrow to have those Continentals fitted at a better price than I...

Portzy, I did a very similar thing to you - we saved long and hard and bought an SLK 350 for my wife's birthday a few years ago, it really was out 'pride and joy'. However, we found ourselves using the Volvo S60 for 9 out of 10 journeys - more space, more comfortable, less concern about the...

You could use interparcel.com or similar and arrange a collection from her address. I do this quite often. Their economy service is the best one - it's a UPS 24 hour service.

Thank you for the amazingly quick reply! I will do that.....cheers.

May I ask - how much roughly does this sort of service cost? My poor old Volvo S60 isn't worth a huge amount - but is in need of some general TLC as it has quite a few stone chips and car park dings from thoughtless shoppers. It would cost me a lot to replace it with a similar vehicle and...

What will happen? Will they re-flash your car back to standard, or just leave it with the Brabus tune on for free?

I had exactly the same problem with mine - I got a 'sample' on eBay for 99p - worked a treat: LIMO BLACK CAR WINDOW TINT FILM - SAMPLE on eBay (end time 10-Jun-10 18:35:07 BST) It was around 7" x 5"

Hi - I too tried this, resulting in much pain and general lack of success. In the end I took the wheel off, undid a couple of bolts on the wheel arch liner, gently teased this out and this then gave very good access to the back of the lights. I'd do it again this way - it was quick when I...

As my username will likely give away - I own a Volvo - it might be worth the OP popping over to volvoforums.org.uk as the XC90 is currently enjoying huge discounts new - especially the 'Active' model. Sales up 202%! Volvo XC90 bucks sales trend | | Honest John

Now that he's out of warranty, why doesn't he consider a chip remap, such as: RICA Engineering - Performance and Economy Tuning for Volvo, BMW, Audi, VW, Mercedes and most other makes and models ? Volvo have released some in-house ones, created in conjunction with Polestar, however they are...

Hi all, The Comand unit in my '05 SLK plays MP3 DVDs - but I have a few issues with it: 1. It will only display folders that contain .mp3 files - so, creating a disc with a folder structure like: genre-artist-album is ignored, and all the 'albums' are displayed as if at the root level...

Here is a short video compliation of my bit of the day.... YouTube - Powered by Mercedes Benz Live 2009 I should warn that I'm no Steven Spielberg! On the way home, I came across one of those Vianos with blacked out windows and Pedro De La Rosa getting dropped off at what I assume was his...

Hi Bobby, I work in IT consulting, my current client is performing large-scale software testing. I run the operation of QC on a daily basis - we inherited the tool as a managed service from HP in a pretty poor state, and have been bringing our use of it up to modern standards for the...