bodywork

Post by **IvanAE86** » 08 May 2007 05:16 pm

Dont know how it is where you live, but around here, 340/360's are one of the most common cars on the junkyards. Nobody cares enought to keep them on the road so you often see VERY clean examples that probably blew a gasket or something silly like that. Just grab yourself a good bonnet at the wreckers, and dont look back!
Welding=lots of work, hard to get it to look nice again.
Painting=lots of work, expensive, DIY rarely ever looks close to the original colour of the car.
If your going to have the bonnet professionally painted, then you might as well still get a good used bonnet since the colour wont even matter.

Post by **germ** » 08 May 2007 05:37 pm

^^ they are rare where i am, been to lots of scrapyards

so far ive bought all pieces ive needed from uk and germany delivery has been expensive too

things ive found here for the car fuel fiter oil filter air filter plug leads fuel pipe and thats it...

if i want a bonnet ill have to get it from uk and iam not havin it posted ill drive over.

its not serious yet any way i just wanted to know what i could do to stop or fix it bassically if it gets worse.

Cheers
will

Post by **stealthstylz** » 08 May 2007 05:46 pm

If you can weld it'll not be too difficult to weld a new section of metal in. Its on a small area so there wont be as much chance of the metal buckling.

Matt

Post by **IvanAE86** » 08 May 2007 08:54 pm

France has a nasty habit of not having much imported cars from the 70's 80's...the government was pushing the local products I guess. Anyway, here in the netherlands, you can go to about any wrecking yard you can imagine, and find at least 2 or 3 340's. Shame it's so damn expensive to ship and so clumsy to handle, I could have helped you out if it was something smaller.

Post by **germ** » 09 May 2007 01:41 am

ohh thanks i might need smaller things some time

i might even drive to the netherlands very cool place

Cheers
will

Post by **IvanS.** » 09 May 2007 09:44 pm

IvanAE86 wrote:Dont know how it is where you live, but around here, 340/360's are one of the most common cars on the junkyards. Nobody cares enought to keep them on the road so you often see VERY clean examples that probably blew a gasket or something silly like that. Just grab yourself a good bonnet at the wreckers, and dont look back!
Welding=lots of work, hard to get it to look nice again.
Painting=lots of work, expensive, DIY rarely ever looks close to the original colour of the car.
If your going to have the bonnet professionally painted, then you might as well still get a good used bonnet since the colour wont even matter.

Totaly true. Keeping them clean and rust-free may keep them on the road for many years. Just need a good care. Since it's volvo, it's a bit expensive to order original parts ( even it's the best option ).