240 General: Recommissioning Torslanda

[concordski]

Morning all, I'm looking at getting my Torslanda back on the road after a couple of years parked up. The chap who's going to be doing most of the work ( brakes, clutch, belts, filters, fluids, hoses, maybe fuel pump etc) uses Parkers as his supplier, will they have all that's required and of good quality or should we be looking elsewhere for parts?
Cheers all,

[DW42]

I've never heard of Parkers. I don't live in the UK anymore, but Brookhouse is good. For rubber mounts genuine Volvo ones aren't what they used to be, and I get these from ClassicSwede despite it being in Wales and I'm in Australia. I also still use Skandix despite the shipping cost from Germany. Good luck with the restoration, the 240 remains a lovely car to drive when in good nick.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by concordski

Morning all, I'm looking at getting my Torslanda back on the road after a couple of years parked up. The chap who's going to be doing most of the work ( brakes, clutch, belts, filters, fluids, hoses, maybe fuel pump etc) uses Parkers as his supplier, will they have all that's required and of good quality or should we be looking elsewhere for parts?
Cheers all,

Good morn,
Parkers is a pretty good mainstream parts supplier, mostly for fairly modern cars (last 20 years) - but it should be able to supply all the generic stuff you need (fluids, filters, belts, that sort of thing - probably brakes and clutch as well). For things like the fuel pump you may have to search a bit wider, but the Internet is fantastic of course.

I buy parts from all sorts of places online - including eBay and Amazon (both really useful). I tend to avoid Skandix, the shipping charges would often be far higher than the cost of the item, and I invariably find that with a little ingenuity equivalent parts can be sourced elsewhere. A good example might have been the fuel pump spacer I needed, the listed part from Skandix would have been about £80 with the postage, but by doing a bit of research on the Internet I found exactly the same part was fitted to Volvo Penta marine engines, and so bought one from a boat dealer for less than a quarter of that. Just recently I found that a carburettor solenoid that would have been £100 from Skandix was available from a Classic VW spares supplier for £18 (and it works fine).

Good fortune with your motor car, post some pictures and words for us - we are always interested in older Volvos.

Alan