Originally intended as a showcase for customers of our workshop and staff’s abilities, this page has evolved in an interesting and informative teaching tool, and one of the most popular pages on our site!
By nature, these are rather extreme examples of failures, and not what we typically find during service. Our goal at Atlantic Motorcar is to prevent these from happening to you and your car. But rest assured, if we can fix these challenges, regular maintenance is breeze!
We like to call this our “YES WE CAN!” page. You can also view many of these concerns on our Facebook page. Each photo can be enlarged by clicking on it.
Water entry into trunk filled and damaged the pneumatic body control module.
Believe it or not we were able to repair this unit, saving our client hundreds of dollars.
Our service facility is equipped with a state of the art electronic service workshop.
More importantly, we were able to find and correct the water leak preventing expensive future problems.
Defective evaporator core requires removal of the dash and center console.
Quite a project, the dye stains on the evaporator core provide confirmation of the leakage.
Although this part often fails from age, its cheap insurance to keep the cabin air filters clean and free of dirt and water, water and debris will enter and will cause corrosion to the evaporator core. Although a V70 is pictured here, the procedure is the same on the Volvo 850 and S70 models.
A very unfortunate event, this Saab 9-3 turbo oil pan struck a rock and damaged the pan allowing the engine oil to leak out. Note the broken aluminum oil pan parts and material caught in the oil sump pickup. Metal particles may have entered the engine lubricating system.
Car had 50,000 miles, all services carried out and stamped in maintenance book, yet engine was ruined by oil sludge. Saab has been having an issue with this engine fault. We feel it is due to extended service intervals without the use of semi or full synthetic engine oil.
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