Laird Scooby |
Oct 25th, 2019 10:57 |
Link to the ebay one :
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/volvo-760-turbo/163914121395
Both are lovely looking cars, for me "there ain't no replacement for displacement" so it would have to be the saloon (the estate gets ignored because it's manual to start with) but that one was before Volvo played with the B28E and turned it into the B280E which would put me off somewhat but the big put-off is the location.
It's quite well known in the area that it's not a good move to buy an older used car from the Bournemouth area - or at least was. Many reasons for this including but not limited to the sea-breeze effect causing excessive corrosion but the less obvious one is that Bournemouth is a haven for retirees.
That in itself isn't a problem but very often they've made their money elsewhere and moved to Bournemouth to retire, buying a new car at the same time. Often it is their first ever new car so they either don't notice little faults or think it's normal and do nothing about it.
These escalate into bigger faults, unscrupulous dealers then buy the cars at a knock-down price, bodge the bigger faults and sell them on to the unsuspecting public.
In the case of this 760 saloon, it has a Bournemouth registration suggesting it's always been in the area so likely to suffer the sea-breeze effect a bit more. I notice that the seller is a retired mechanic and it has a short MoT - need i say more?
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