Initial purchase faults etc

The car is a 2001 Volvo V70, 100K miles, 7 seater, automatic with large rear estate section ideal for R2R expedition. Angus and I found it on the bay of fleas and took a punt. Initially we found the car lacking in power when we test drove it but the engine appeared to be running very smoothly on tick over and had a good service history. However it had the EMS light on so I guess we knew it had problems and that is why we got it cheaply.

On return to Scotland we found it had a rather nasty looking oil leak and the EMS light returned on after resetting it.

The oil leak was coming from the camshaft inspection covers. It appears the Volvo has a positive pressure crankcase breathing system and the covers can leak on older cars. I put some fibre gaskets on the covers and we will monitor progress. The insulation on the cables to the coil packs are disintegrating another sign of age

The timing belt looks old (should have been changed at 90K and the brakes squeal and the disks have rather large lips.

I have a code reader called a Gendan which appears to be able to read the fault codes.

 

Time to order up a new coil pack and a O2 sensor.

Update 09/2/16

The O2 sensor and coil pack on No2 Cylinder was changed and the above dtc's went away after a reset of the ECU. Only time will tell if the dreaded EMS light remains off.

Update 14/03/16

The final tally was O2 sensor, coil pack and a MAF sensor. The EMS lamp now remains off. The live feedback from the ECU is non existent or unobtainable from that ECU hence the time it took to find the fault.