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FAQ ended Jan on a positive note 700

posted by  someone claiming to be Al on  Tue Jan 25 15:38 CST 2005 [RELATED]

Been a hell of a month with the 745. Right after the 1st the Alternator died.
Last week the car died right in the middle of the road. Ended up being a dead coolant sensor. Got it fixed and the next day the car died again. It ended up be the wiring going to the radio suppression relay was shot. Got that rewired and everything was running well until the last few days when the new alternator wasn't charging until the dash board (cluster) got warmed up.
The cluster had zero power to it and nothing electrical worked in the unit except the clock. If the temperature was below 40 degrees I had to crank on the heat to warm the interior it up enough to get the power to the unit to engage. Well Saturday and yesterday I came close to having the car die on me because the battery almost gave out before the fault in the cluster would heat up enough and engage the alternator.
After reading through some of the posts I came across one that pointed me to the FAQ on a simular problem. I dug through the FAQ and found that by just snugging up the contact screws on the back of the cluster it may solve the alternator problem. Well it worked and took me less than 10 minutes to fix the problem.








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    what year is your 745? might want to add wiring to the radio supression to the faq 700

    posted by  someone claiming to be frankford on  Wed Jan 26 03:31 CST 2005 [RELATED]

    I had a similar problem with my wiring and don't really think it was the relay but the wiring being loose. This would be easy to add to the faq's if its a new problem people are seeing with their volvos. This is the best I have had mine running (knock on wood).








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      what year is your 745? might want to add wiring to the radio supression to the faq 700

      posted by  someone claiming to be Al on  Wed Jan 26 04:25 CST 2005 [RELATED]

      I have a 1987 745 Turbo. Sorry for not adding that into the message body. At 18 years old I have tried to keep up with the wiring under the hood. It was just one of those things that popped up that you really never see coming. Just like the coolant sensor dying.








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        Including YEAR on Subject Line is a good thing 700 1987

        uid 18083's pic
        posted by  lucid on  Wed Jan 26 06:08 CST 2005
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        "I have a 1987 745 Turbo. Sorry for not adding that into the message body.

        Hi Al,

        You can (dare I say "should"?) put it right on the subject line like I did here.

        More and more people seem to be ignoring this simple pull-down choice. And it bugs me because the year often makes a difference in the response, given our long-lived cars. I like to know the year before I dig into the text.
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        Bruce Young
        '93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.







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