Hi

http://www.gcp.se/

This is a company part owned by Volvo and significantly supported by them who are supplying parts for older Volvos. The have access to the original design drawings and often use the same supplier. Materials used are often upgraded.

The 340 has now been added with some of the more common parts now available. You need a parts manual to decipher their catalog though!

Clutchs were added last month even though you can still get them from seleted parts suppliers.

Mac, you could sell you gaskets to these guys!

I know the company has close links with the PV club of Sweden ( volvo also gave this club the remaining copies of the PV service manuals from the archives - of course they kept one of each in the archive to be preserved. Copies of such manual can be obtained by contact Volvo customer support in Sweden. The management team there all have access to the archive and can help. Just in case you get an unhelpful reply, just resend and ask for your case to be referred to a manager ( new staff sometimes arent 100% knowledgable )


I think the resource and numbers we have in this club mean we could submit part requests to GCP if there is enough demand. If we compile a list of common parts we need that we cant make ourselves easily ( water pumps... etc ) we could send this to GCP. This club has over 200 members now? more??

GCP was setup with Volvo as an evolution of their recycling project called ECRIS. Since Ford took over, Volvo has moved the boundary of the vehicles that GCP will be suppling parts for. It used to stop at the 140 but now seems to approach 340s and 240s as well.

Smart move Volvo. This doesnt affect their books too much ( ie Ford critical eye!! ) but allows good parts supply ( mayb not ideal but still good ) for owners of older Volvos.

Duriing 2000 Volvo announced the opening of GCP through the Volvo cars magazine and the website. I think the 120 and PV clubs knew about it but it seems to have slipped under the radar of newer car club

enjoy your Volvos!

Shimon

Am I missing something Shimon? How do you get to the 300 parts? I can only see Amazons, 1800's, 140's and PV's

hi there

yeah the webiste isnt updated yet but if you go into parts info, classic parts then select 300 from the drop down menu and there you go... the newly added 340 parts!

S

Hmm.. I wonder if they would like to re-produce 360 engine mounts..

It's not a huge problem yet but the mounts won't last forever in any car and the hydraulic engine mounts are something which are not so simple to fabricate by yourself.

That's excellent news Shimon. Very interesting indeed. There are a couple of other firms I've heard about in Sweden that are specialising in 120 Amazon parts and the PV's, but there just are't any capturing the 300 market, but this looks promising!
Pete

Found the prolem... the site doesn't like firefox! Cool, looks great, thanks for the heads up mate.

EDIT: Hmm, having tried to browse the site, I reckon I may need to wait for them to make a catalogue!!! Can't suss out most of the discriptions... part number 1129816 - Panel Kit TD-3041 anybody? Is lots of stuff though, looking forward to this

Any additional source for parts to keep the cars on the road can only be good.

Yeah, they have some really useful stuff too... like the battery earth straps that Volvo no longer do. Those are only $7 as well... but they want $150 for a rev counter....

Then again, I suppose £75 for a VDO gauge new isn't that unreasonable, considering how much their common as 52mm series cost

Your right Chris - I found it doesn't like Firefox either. Works fine in IE6 though (which I normally avoid like the plague it is).

Interesting navigation - part no. order only - not easy to browse !! Still it's a good move if more becomes available.

Humm - TD-3041 sounds like a mid 80s accessory radio - a conversion mounting panel perhaps ?? (it is in Swinglish after all).

Mac.

Yeah, if you have a look around the rest of the site mac, look at their catalogues for amazons etc, they look like green book diagrams, and they put there part number next to each diagram number. I guess when they get around to it they'll have that for 3's too, must take a while.

Woot! Progress indeed!

Check this out - a part number for Steve: 1299037

cheers

James

Hahahahaha!!

Git

hi

glad you guys like the site. its still work in progress but this company gets very good support from volvo and is part owned by volvo....

If we have a list of things we need, or could supply them ( eg diff cover via chris or diff gasket via mac) we could feed parts into the system rather than just buy

all the best

shimon