I'm getting close to breaking down and taking the car to the local independent Volvo shop. Doing that will be admitting defeat, but it's probably worth preserving my sanity.

I put the car through one additional cycle of idling to temperature. I ran it with the AC on the whole time and I saw nowhere near the heat expansion that I did when I ran it this AM. I'm not sure if I lost coolant this time. I'm still sitting about 1" below the max line, but it seems like it has less than earlier.

Last week, I was loosing fluid at approx 1/2 gallon a day... But that was distilled water, which boils much easier than 50/50 dexcool. Damn, too many variables. I'll keep monitoring.


I have been checking my tranny fluid since I replaced the radiator. It needs a full flush, but the level is holding constant.

The Law of Conservation of Mass says that my coolant can;t just vanish. It's going somewhere... I just gotta figure out where...



I spent the latter half of today rebuilding the suspension in my Wife's 940. Man.. that car is so much simpler in just about every way... except perhaps for the front struts. So much extra room under the hood, everything is accessible. Quite a stark contrast to the c70, where I have to start removing major components just to reach basic things...

Ah well.. the c70 turns heads and looks cool. 940 wagons don't do that... Maybe I should put my time and money back into my 220... people actually flag me down in an Amazon...