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Check your car for this rust!!! - save your life! 700 1987

posted by  someone claiming to be Stefan on  Mon Oct 1 16:29 CST 2001 [RELATED]

Hello there all fellow Volvo fans -

I emplore you to check your your brick for the following problem - as it may save your life like it saved mine.

A common place for our 700's to rust is where the strut linkage attaches to the frame rails of the car. It is visible if you turn your wheel and look in the wheel well - the bracket that has 45 degree towards the rear of the car. at that point where it attaches to the frame - the car will rust from the inside out. Your only evidence will be a slightly bubbled undercoating. (as mine was)

I took the initative to scrape off the undercoating to find a nice hole there. the more I picked, the more swiss-cheese like it got...

Now I talked to a friend of mine - a welder - and asked him to weld it up. We talked then lost touch for 2-3 months. I gave up on getting it fixed...

As of recently the car has run very well (with 274,000 miles on it) and is a native Minnesota car. (salt + snow = rusty cars) I noticed the rotors seemed to be warping - as the brakes were really starting to pulse when I brake - and the tires seemed out of balance too... the vibration all the time...

Well, last week God put me in that welder's mind (his words exactly) and he called to come look at the car. We agreed on a price to patch up the hole and I would undercoat it after... I dropped it off on Saturday - to let him goto work. As he scraped and peeled back the undercoating - he found a 5" long crack in the frame that was about 1/4" wide and was "spiderwebbing" away from the main crack. The frame was ready to literally rip apart on the next big bump I hit. Totally scary! totally amazing that he called when he did - or I may have a big mess on my hands.

He was able to weld up the crack & re-inforce the frame with cold-rolled steel plates. As I drove the car home - it was totally vibration free.

I sit here in thanks to God for saving my life, and thankful that I can warn/tell you about what was going on. Please check your brick over carefully.

responses/comments welcome.

Stefan

1987 745GLE 274,000 miles and counting...





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