[AllHailKingVolvo]

Hi all,
I meant to mention this before, but last weekend, after much mechanical fettling and recommissioning over the last few months, I took my diesel 940 on its first major road trip-I had a karting race meeting at Red Lodge in Suffolk, which, including trips to and from hotels etc and detours via Fareham and Fordingbridge (twice) and Sidcup en route, was a 525 mile round trip from me in the wilds of Dorset.

On the way there, the car was fully loaded from floor to ceiling with karts, tyres, engines, tools, awning and so forth (along with two people), and on the way home, in addition to that we stopped off via Sidcup in Kent to collect and bring home a large box trailer that my team mate had just purchased, along with a kart and various tools inside it.

The car drove superbly, lapped up the miles and, via a brim-to-brim calculation, returned 38.7mpg despite the massive load it was lugging! I couldn’t have been more pleased. The only issues were the downpipe to bellhousing bracket rattling a little (since sorted-the downpipe of the rather rorty custom made stainless exhaust that the PO had made for the car is slightly smaller in OD than the bracket, so I wrapped some fibre exhaust wrap (the type you’d use on a bike exhaust) around it, tightened it back up and job’s a good ‘un) and what I now know to be the DMF noise being a little louder whilst towing and fully loaded.

Still a few bits to do as always, but the car was an absolute champ. Very rewarding after all the work over the last few months!