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when i bought my 340 18 months ago the rear drivers door would not open from the outside. So i opened the door from the inside took the door card off and found the bar to open it from the outside was missing.
I put the door card back on with the intenion of getting a new bar for it.
6 months down the line i had forgot all about it.Then when it was in the m.o.t bay i remebered there was no bar i started thinking its goin to fail
the tester started at the passenger rear door then the passenger door then the drivers door and finally he went to the door with no bar pulled the handle and the soddin door opened!!
I could not belive it so when i got home i took the door card off to check it was still missing and it still was
its still not gone one even now but the door still opens
it was just a way to get people talking. and it worked, however wierd (and full of crap) it was
VOLVO DALARO MYSTERY SOLVED
The so-called 'Mystery of Dalaro' in which 32 people in a small Swedish town bought a new Volvo S40 on exactly the same day, has now been solved thanks to Sniff Petrol. The remarkable coincidence, subject of a special documentary which has been used in Volvo's advertising campaign for the new car, occurred in October last year, since when it has been baffling scientists and getting on the tits of anyone who has watched the bloody TV commercial for the 23rd time.
'The answer is quite simple,' said Bjorn Ulvaeus, one of the coincidental car buyers featured in the 'Mystery of Dalaro' documentary. 'The only car dealer in Dalaro is the Volvo one and, since all previous small Volvos have been shit, when a decent one is announced of course everyone is going to want to get shot of their rubbish old 440s and V40s. Besides which, in a small Swedish town it is very common for people to do the same things at the same time, such as buying Volvos, drinking vodka, listening to ABBA records, reading hardcore pornography or killing yourself. Frankly, those are about the only things you can do in Sweden'. Mr Ulvaeus reacted angrily to suggestions that his response was simply peddling stereotypes about boring Sweden and its national pastimes. 'Why should I give a shit,' he spat. 'I'm an English speaking Norwegian actor hired for the commercial. It was all made up you idiots'.
Sniff Petrol tried to ring some real residents of Dalaro but they had nipped out to buy more self-assembly furniture.
ha ha! 
