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base 850 upgrades... 850

posted by  acd483 on  Tue May 6 03:09 CST 2003
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As I understand, the base 850 models did not come with climate control, where you set the dial to a temperature and leave it. They came with cool to warm dials instead. Can a climate control unit be easily retrofitted to a base 850 from a Turbo or GLT model?
Also, because the 850 did not include a CD player unit, is it simple to replace it with a Turbo or later model radio with CD? I'm assuming it would be plug and play, but can't tell.
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    posted by  4150tech on  Sat May 10 17:06 CST 2003
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    Yes its true you can return your radio to the volvo dealer provided its am/fm tape, to get a am/fm tape and cd player and they the volvo dealer will actually make money from the core.
    Regarding electronic climate control (ecc) to manual climate control (mcc), its up to you, if you have ecc and the lights flash the dealer can pull diagnostic trouble codes from the ecc, whereas a mcc panel will not flash and a dealer cannot pull codes. Otherwise you set it, you adjust it, its all you!








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    base 850 upgrades... 850

    posted by  someone claiming to be claude on  Fri May 9 00:47 CST 2003 [RELATED]

    having the base 850 w/o ACC myself, I must say I much prefer it to the ACC on my other car, a 9-3 Viggen. Seems as though ACC is always blowing at an undesireably high fan level. Have noticed this too on Volvo loaners. I love my manual climate control. Easy to dial in the perfect setting, IMO

    claude
    '94 855M 260k miles








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    base 850 upgrades... 850

    posted by  someone claiming to be Ray N. on  Tue May 6 04:52 CST 2003 [RELATED]

    I swap the radios between our 95 850 and 98 S70 and it can be done
    in about 90 seconds -- plug and play. As mentioned, the bezels
    are black for the 850 and gray for the S70. (The S70 has a CD player
    so it gets swapped into the 850 for long road trips.)

    One of our Volvos has the temperature setting climate control and
    the other does not. I would not miss the temperature setting
    at all since I often have to change the fan speed manually to
    keep the car comfortable. In fact, I never use the automatic fan
    speed setting and the temperature knob is a twist knob just like
    the one in the manual controls. I wouldn't consider it worth the
    effort to retrofit.








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    base 850 upgrades... 850

    posted by  Gerald C on  Tue May 6 04:08 CST 2003
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    The radios can be plug-and-played easily. Just make sure you get the dark gray for the 850, and not the light gray of the S70, etc.

    The auto climate control is a different story. In addition to the different control panel, there are multipl damper control motors, temperature sensors, and electronics. It would be difficult to change it out. Maybe someone has done it, though.

    Gerald C







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