Volvo RWD 200 Forum

Hello again,just to update you good people, I tried the method of lubing the cable and I am afraid that made the problem worse meaning my car was not going up a gear until at least 5000 Rpm, the 20 mile drive home from my brothers was hell and I admit to shedding tears of guilt for thrashing the guts off the poor old girl,anyway I think that lubing the cable must have freed the cable a bit but not all the way down but freeing what it did made the kick down stick on all the way down!!if you know what I mean! anyway I took the car round to a Volvo owner and freelance mechanic who in turn flushed the gear box and he said that the valve was sticking on and the cable was all ceased up, he for reasons known only to himself proceeded in cutting the bloody cable at the end in the engine bay and just before the throttle cable!I started to doubt this man`s credentials as a mechanic when he told me that over the phone.. anyway he said that it was an improvement and charged me 80 quid for the work, I have since got home and checked the transmission fluid on level ground and the "Mechanic" has overfilled it by quite a way, which is obviously not good,is this going to do more damage and is there a way of draining a bit out? also my car now changes to 2nd at about 2 and half rpm and to 3rd at about 4 rpm which I know is not right,the mechanic said he ordered a kickdown cable but they sent him the wrong one,another question is...do I buy a cable and will fitting it maybe cure this problem? sorry to ask so many questions but my head is done in and I feel that I have been taken for a mug,maybe I am a mug but I dont want to pay to be told...