So it's been a while, the greatest people have been paying a visit, and I've been praying for the survival of the volvo (It made it!). Having a car is incredibly useful, we went on great trips with it, one of them 270 km to Møns klint and back, great place with good cliffs. Later it helped us get to copenhagen and back a couple of times, cause fuck the trainbusses (and also public transportation prices when riding more than one person). The second to last time I drove to Copenhagen was solely so my (very) good friend could meet up with his new companion, I hope he appreciates it :)

Now the car is obviously exhausted, it still drinks oil (and fuel of course), so to fix that I got a couple things I need to do, some of them unrelated to the oil problem.

1. Replace valve stem seals along with uhh some other seals in the head.
2. Replace water pump.
3. Replace timing belt (its like 10k km overdue, interval is every 120k km).
4. Take a gander at the air conditioning, now that global warming has hit it would be nice for it to work.
5. Do a compression test to make sure it's got good piston rings and no blowby.

So that's the important stuff (except for AC) that could result in broken engine if not looked at soon, it doesn't seem like much when listed like that, but just replacing the timing belt and seals will probably be a two or even three day job for a first timer like me. But if I manage to fix it I will have my own working car thats good for another half a million kms :), it would be cool to still have this car working and driving in some 10 years time.

Now for some other fixes and improvements that would be cool to do, but not necessary to the cars survival at all

1. Make all speakers work.
2. New headunit so I can play music either through aux or bluetooth, but not fm thanks.
3. Sick rims would be cool.
4. Clean and repair the paint.
5. Repair rust spots.
6. Replace the very last part of the exhaust (exhaust from engine and to muffler is very nice, after that is completely rusted away xd).
7. Maybe coilovers to give it a nice stance.
8. New speakers? Maybe subwoofers hidden in a clever way in the back.
9. Replace the outer part of the steering wheel (It's got some holes in it).
10. Somehow fix the hole in the drivers seat (mom said she would try and patch it up for me :) ).
11. Replace wipers everywhere (Windshield, Rear window, headlight wipers).
12. Replace the position lamp in the right light.
13. Clean the interior, it's already very clean though.
14. Clean the engine bay (there's a lot of oil and other disgusting stuff everywhere).
15. Maybe some new bodypanels like sideskirts, spoiler from 850r or a front lip from 850r (might aswell just get an 850r).
16. Reset the fucking lambda light, like the half life 3 joke is funny but please stop being lit light :(

That's all I can think of right now, and most of it is just fantasy that would atleast require some years before I will have enough time and money to do them, but there's no harm in thinking ahead.

Thanks for reading friends.