My wife has had an accident where she rear-ended an SUV in slow freeway traffic and nosed under the SUV bumper and lost all the front lights; grille; AC Condenser; Hood. Amazingly, the front fenders were not damaged.

Body shop wants $6800 to fix. I have been looking around at other used RWD Volvos and it has become rather discouraging. I have come to the conclusion that people who sell their cars don't maintain them AND people who maintain their cars don't sell them . . .

I am now thinking that I may fix my wife's car myself. The only aspect about her car that I am uncomfortable with is that it has some piston slap that is evident during warmup. This has been notable since I replaced the noisy hydraulic valve lifters some 3+ years ago. In the past year, I am noting oil loss thru the front seal. I am assuming that crankcase blow-by is increasing.

Given all of this, I am figuring that if I fix this car, I'm going to fix the motor as well. I'm looking into a piston set for the car, and I am seeing that Mahle is what seems to be available, but I'm only finding the standard size.

Vadis shows an 0.20mm 1st oversize at 83.20mm, but I do not find these anywhere.

I don't understand why/how the standard size pistons can be used in a bore that has seen 150,000 miles of wear, and I wouldn't think that sleeving the cast-in cylinders is even an option.

What's up with this?