Thank you candles
To answer the wider point, are the Bifules any good? Absolutely. You will need to listen intently to the points I have already made and be fastidious in following these. Especailly about keeping the distributor clean. Woe betide you if you if you ignore this particulary if running the LPG flavour.
LPG is dirty, dirty stuff which produces heavy-ends to clog and burn out your distributor and thus fry your stepper motor. Which would be fine if they were £40 a throw as they are for the Ford version of this Necam system. Only they are not. Worst bit is that last year, the things were not available at any price. Necam have jsut made another batch.
I understand, getting to the stepper to clean it is a pain on the later models. On my 1999 model it is a 3 min. job. Fire injecotr cleaner in there and let it soak. Do this every 10,000 miles. Some are not fitted witha filter between the regulator and the disrtibutor. These are £4.00 or £45.00 from Volvo. Fit one.
There is also a design flaw within the stepper that measn that they will often go wayward. This I fix for you, better than new. Follow my advice and I can assure you, Volvo Bifuels are very decent vehicles, that with clean fluids, will do mad mileages, and not crumble away before yoru very eyes, like a Merc (and some Beemers) of the same vintage.
I did nearly 60,000 miles last year, and 40 odd the year before. These things will do the miles. So if you do big-girl's blouse miles but keep everything clean; watch what will oterwise kill them at 150,000... the ATF, the PCV, and the ETM, these things will outlast you. And there are very few vehilces made of thsi vintage you can say that about, simply becasue quite reasonabley (and think about my point here cheshirered) why would or should there be? What makes you think car manufacturers are about us?
For example Mercedes used to make cars of such quality, that they could do 300,000 miles but never did, becasue they have the parts and servicing, priced such that by the time they get to those miles, the bill is more than the car is worth. Hence they are 'cubed' or found parked outside Kebab takeaways. They want them crushed or undriven. They succeed.
Unlike old Volvos. These go to the cuber, because they suffer from loss of snob-appeal, an ol' duffer image and lack of maintenace at the crucial points and mileage-markers. Not parts prices.
Now send me your steppers so that I may continue to offer this service to those of you with Bifuels, and pile on those mad miles. It'll do it.