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The AWD is...fine. Honestly, I don't care much about it. I've driven my FWD S70 for over ten years now in all kinds of weather. With proper tires, I've never had issues. I currently live in a state that barely gets any snow, so I don't think I'll ever even feel the AWD working and needing it...

Minor update...or maybe not so minor. Tint is done and rear spoiler is installed. Also installed the roof bars. Refreshed the front end - lights and grille - from the original 1999 look to what C70 models looked after the facelift in 2004. (repainted the bottom grilles after I took this...

Hi everyone! It has been a long time since I posted on the forums. Thought I'd come back for a little bit and offer a bit of an update. The good old 1998 S70 T5m is still running strong. I still have it. Never getting rid of it. Now closing in on 200k miles. The 2011 XC60 T6 got into a deer...

I'm looking at a possible cat replacement on the XC60. OEM one is $1,600 + 5 hours of labor. For some reason, they decided to put the catalytic converter as part of the downpipe. There is an aftermarket high-flow downpipe/cat option for just $500 which may be the route I take. Question about...

Thank you all! @MWF, I'm in Athens. I haven't really switched to the SUV side, it's primarily my wife's car, and we drive it on road trips occasionally. I'm never getting rid of the S70. In fact, I might be picking up a 98 C70 manual in a couple of weeks with 285k miles. Just want to save it...

Hi everyone, I'm back...sort of. I took a very long break from the forum for various reasons. Lots of things happened in life. When I heard about Alex, it prompted me to check out the forum again. So here I am with a small update. And the update is that I acquired another Volvo. It's a 2011...

I have been away from the forums for quite a while, but then I saw a FB post about this and I felt I should login. Alex, I'm really sorry to hear this devastating news. You are an awesome guy and what you created here, this community, is something really special. You are an inspiration, and a...

Sorry, poor wording. I meant, you wouldn't interfere to save others if doing so would put you and your loved ones at harm.

But you said it yourself - you wouldn't actually interfere in a situation if it posed significant risk for your own life or the lives of your loved ones. Most people would behave like that, even in a non-gun-free zone. I have no problem with the claim that guns are for self-defense. But the...

That's not the context of the NRA phrase, and you know it. The full context is that you can't always rely on LEO to stop a bad guy, so the only way to stop a bad guy is more civilian good guys with guns. And the statistics in active shooter scenarios simply don't support that assertion...

You answered this yourself in the other thread: And I agree with your assessment. It is situation dependent and it does depend on your willingness to risk your own safety. I still maintain that the NRA catch phrase that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" is...

Oh that's where it ended up :)

Just responding so I can point to Labcoatguy's quote in my signature :)

Trump stops at Trump International Hotel Waikiki to thank employees Not owned by him so he doesn't get any immediate profit, but a little free advertising and support for the Trump brand can't hurt. ...and by free, I mean, on tax-payer funded official trips.

At least we agree on something. The statement from wikipedia is backed by a list of several peer-reviewed journal essays and books. I can compile the list for you, if you doubt their legitimacy and are interested in reading them. What I am trying to get at is the fact that the label of...

I never understood why you couldn't get the Charger with a manual, but you could get a manual Challenger. Not even a special order from the factory?

And as I pointed out before, words like "nigger" were also crowd-sourced agreed upon definitions, until we realized how awfully offensive they were. The very first line in the wikipedia entry on terrorism says that there is no universal agreement on the definition of terrorism. There is a list...

Here we go again... In a previous discussion, I asked LeVeL if a person driving without a valid license would be called an illegal driver. He said yes. By that logic, the killer broke the law - he was not allowed to buy a firearm - therefore the definition would fit. He was an illegal. (That's...

A very tragic event indeed. The responses to it are also revealing. Even after we have established some of the facts, for the most part nobody is calling the killer an illegal or a terrorist. Back to the good old "he was just mentally ill."