1800: Any history on P1800S Reg. FPV 452E ?.

[skysurfer]

Hi everyone,

I bought my first P1800 (Reg. FPV 452E) a few months ago (having previously owned a couple of Amazons) but very little history came with this car. The only info I can find is that it has had six previous owners and was subject to a body re-build and re-paint fairly recently (no photos though). The car otherwise seems pretty original but I get the feeling that it's been off the road for a few years in dry storage somewhere. It's generally very sound and presentable externally although it does need the engine bay tidying up and new seat covers, headlining and some interior panels. If anyone can give me any info about the car then that would be great.

Thanks

Paul

[JIM C]

Maybe posting a photo might help jog someones memory.
Best of luck
Jim

[Gordon Hunter]

Hi Paul,

I've been through all the club register files, but sadly there is no record of your car.

Gordon

[4 forty]

it is still on the road, and taxed until feb 2009

refer to this website

http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/Evl...ehicle+Enquiry

paul

[48pop]

And insured........According to the Motor Insurers database........


http://www.askmid.com/askmid.aspx

Big Brother....Naaaah that would never happen. What next, chips in your number plates, mandatory beacon in your car...??? Public would never let them away with that......

By the way, I downloaded a wee mapping app to my phone, Tells me where I am to within a few meters....Wonder who else is watching .........

[mike gilbert]

Is it a pale blue 1800S (ice blue)? If so I used to own that car. I got it off a bloke in Wales about 6-7 years ago. He was in the process of scrapping it and had pulled it apart to sell off the bits. I offered him £200 for the lot and it cost me more than that to get the shell and parts transported to East Anglia. When I examined it I thought it was too good to scrap so I put it back together using, where necessary, some better mechanics and trim items and got it resprayed locally in Peterborough. I ran it for a few weeks and sold it to a bloke in Northampton. He hardly ever used it and left it behind in his old garage when he split up from his Mrs - thats why its been off the road for a few years. He then stuck it on e-bay last year and now its resurfaced again.
It ran fine when I had it but the overdrive was slow to engage. It also had lots of filler in the sills and bottoms of the wings but that was because the bloke before me put the sills on too far in and had to 'fatten' up both them and the wing bottoms to get them level with the door bottoms. It was quite solid though which is the main thing. Looked nice in 2K Ice Blue paint, a bit more pigment than the old cellulose.
Of course if this car is not pale blue I've just given you a load of useless information.

[skysurfer]

Hi Mike. Yes, mine is ice blue, so I guess i've bought your old car !. I've had it up on the ramps and it all looks solid enough underneath. I note your comment about the sills - they could have been done better - but there's no sign of any rust coming through or cracking paint. In fact, the paintwork is still excellent. The overdrive has now been sorted and engages/disengages instantly. The only things that really let the car down now are the front seats and engine bay detailing. I've also just bought an excellent secondhand grill surround from Brookhouse and a new s/s exhaust system through the club which I'll fit next week. Did you rebuild the engine when you had it to run on unleaded ?. Thanks for the information Cheers. Paul

[volvo144gl]

Hi,

You can get quite a bit of info out of the DVLA , it'll show all the previous owners etc.
See http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring...cle/DG_4022067

Have a look to see if it's on http://www.volvo1800pictures.com/

under the owners register

What is the Chasis number ?

[mike gilbert]

No Paul, i've never rebuilt any of my 1800's for unleaded (and I've had loads of them) I just stick super unleaded in and never had any problems. Unless your doing high mileage and/or regular high speed cruising, it will take a long time to get valve seat recession. Probably longer than you'll have the car! Having said that those octane booster additives do work, if you can be bothered faffing aoround at every fill up. I think it has survived well because its been kept indoors - if your going to use it in the wet or keep it outside invest in a few gallons of waxoyl, or the rust will start coming through. I'm just waxoyling my Capri restoration today, horrible job but worht doing.

[Pigeon]

Originally Posted by mike gilbert

No Paul, i've never rebuilt any of my 1800's for unleaded (and I've had loads of them) I just stick super unleaded in and never had any problems. Unless your doing high mileage and/or regular high speed cruising, it will take a long time to get valve seat recession. Probably longer than you'll have the car! Having said that those octane booster additives do work, if you can be bothered faffing aoround at every fill up.

I use Redex lead replacement in my 164, mainly because it is relatively dilute - so you add a reasonable volume, rather than a couple of teaspoonfuls - and it comes in a bottle with a long enough spout to stick it into the side-mounted filler and launch it down the pipe with reasonable confidence that it'll make it into the tank and not just hang around in a dribble just inside the neck. I don't exactly hang around on the motorway, but nor am I too happy about not using it for general use, after all I do plan to keep the car until it becomes impossible to repair it, and I want that to be as long as possible...

The biggest difficulty with it is the childproof cap on the thing, it requires such pressure to get the ratchet thing to engage to undo it that there is a risk of collapsing the bottle. Why do we have to have these silly caps on everything - it's not as if there are many children in the boot of my car...