850R Register
 

I have started a T-5R register on this forum. I thought it would also be interesting to start an 850R register as well, so can anybody with an 850R please list the following details about their car:

Year
Type (854 is four door, 855 is estate)
Manual or Automatic
Colour
Mileage (optional)
Where the car is in the UK (optional)

1997
855
Auto
Dark Olive Pearl
85,000 miles
Kent

Jan 1996
855
Manual
Red
130K
Bristol area

Ex Volvo press car, probably one of the first released looking at the date of registration.
Rebuilt engine at 110K after a bit of rod bend...
19T, Rica, Racelogic Traction control, AP's & HID's to name a few alterations ;)

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854
1996
Auto
Met Grey
95,000
Co Offaly,Ireland
Hope it doesn't matter im in Ireland!!
Regards

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hi folks this is my first post been lurking for a while
any hoo
aquired brick october 2005 (1 owner from new)
April 1996
855
manual
black
Edinburgh
currently 139000miles

dave w

Year 1997
855R
Red
Manual
217,000
Peebles, Scotland
Owned from new (though sold and bought back from mate at 150k - 170k)
Loved to bits. Also known locally as 'the red infuriator'!

Can you re-post in the 850R register please!

1996
Red
Automatic estate
850R
102100 miles

Can you post in the 850R register please.

850r
 

Year Jan 1997
855
Manual
Red
Mileage 217,164
Peebles, Scotland

Bought car new from John Cleland. Sold it to a mate at 150k. Couldn't bear to be without, so bought it back at 170k. No mods, though synchro went on 3rd gear at 190k - otherwise, original.

Known locally as the red infuriator!

The one and only.
 

1999
854
Manual
Red
85,600
Leicestershire

Volvo's press/show car in Sweden since 1996, imported into the UK in 99;
mildly modified (brakes and handling), usually seen at the Crooked Billet meets.

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1996
855R
Auto
Red
102000
Nottinghamshire

Bought from the guy across the road after a long time loving it from a distance!! friends call it the fire engine.

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1997
855R
Auto
Red
59500
Sheffield

Have owned the car 7 years.
Purchased from main dealer in Doncaster with 30000 miles recorded.
Love the car,only used summer monthes, stored through winter.
Entered car in volvo nationals concours de elegance in 2000,& won first prize !!

Oct 1996
854
Auto
White!
85,000
Yorkshire

Had a 440 then a 850 2.5 then a S70 2.5T and now a 854R, took me a while but i got there!

96 N
855 Est
Man
Dark Grey
177k
Uxbridge

1996
854 R
auto
red
80,000.. bought it 2 years ago with 50 thousand on it for only 10 thousand dollars.
NEW JERSEY
I LOVE MY CAR

1996
855
Auto
Red
145k
Owned about 5 years.... having spent 4 months looking for the right one. Its been stored for the last year but is due back in service any day now.....

Rodd
 

855 1997
Auto
Dark olive pearl
90K

Swansea Wales
New Box, Rica, Drilled and grooved ,18"s
New GAZ shocks:huepfen024:

1996
854R
Red
148K
Shrewsbury Shropshire
Only got it last weekend! :Banane45:

1996 N
855
Black
105K
Ruislip, Middlesex

Owned from new. Now planning to do some mods:)

(Hello Blackbullet :-))
1996 N
855
Manual
~165K
"Flame Red"
London W9

Had "the Tank" for 3 years now. It lived in Italy for a while with a previous owner. The gearbox went a few months back so it now has a (shorter) T-5 transmission which makes things interesting in the wet!

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1997
855
Manual
Red
105,000
Derbyshire

Bought from previous member of this forum (nigel) who completely rebuilt the engine and all suspension parts at 90,000. So far, 15,000 trouble free miles. Also had car rica'd

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854r
1996
auto
turquoise
96k
preston,lancashire

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1996
854r
turquoise
96k
preston,lancashire

1996
855 R
Automatic
Red
105,000
Surrey

just bought it to replace the wifes wrangler since there's another rug rat on the way. never realised "sensible" could be so much fun,

does anyone have any experience of EBC brakes on 850's had them on my integrale and was impressed.

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hi i bought mine off ebay just over a year ago for £800.00
have spent around £400 on it so far but she has been worth it .

855r
1993
manual
green
170000
oxfordshire.
look for me passing you on the m40 she goes like a bullet.

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855R
Auto
Black
116k
Gravesend,Kent.

Off the road at the moment, needs paint and some other bits.

855r
 

1995
855R
Automatic
Red
71,100 Full History
Village just outside Cambridge

3rd car now kept in garage used at weekends

Previous (all estates) C reg 2.8 V6 blue – 760 2.3 Turbo gold – 855 2.5 20v black – 855R as above

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1996
855R
Red
Auto
172K (Owned eight years 85% motorway meileage)

Ashford Kent

AND working air-con

Hi new to this forum, however been a forum member on volvo performace website.
her is my contribution to the R register:


1996
854
auto
red
90k
mansfield, notts.

1996 P
855R
Automatic
Red
91,100 Full Volvo Service History

Had for a week now
:Banane59:

November 1996
855R
Black
Manual
158K

Chester

1996 P
855 R
Auto
Metalic Grey
116K
Chatham, Kent

Got a 855T5 for the wife , had to get an 855 R for myself !

1996
855R
Manual
Red
145000+
Berkshire

Travelled the UK looking for this one, found it in Leicester. A very good purchase!

1996
855R
Auto
Green
66,000
Suffolk

Found this car within 1 week when i seriously started to look for one.:Banane45:

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1997
855
Auto
Black
138k
Midlands

1996
855
Manual
Met. green
107k
S.E. London
Picked it up on Monday having bought it from a member here! Absolutely love it!

Flying Banana
 

Temporarily grounded, at the mo due to an expired autobox, but may be on the mend shortly

'95
855
Auto
Yellow
183k
Glos.

...and if anyone can tell me if a T5 Autobox will slot straight in, pray do enlighten me; even Volvo Customer Care don't seem sure !!

Otherwise, still a corker. Just spent a diamond mine on getting the crank end seal, the evapourator and the heater matrix replaced.

Only negative is the front brakes, which, it would seem, goes without mention within the circles. They are disgracefuly crap, considering the rest of the design capability. EBC 'greenstuff' pads are the only thing that keeps them semi-bearable; gone down the usual time-wasting route of various disc types, but it always comes back to over-cooking and high wear. I know about AP, but don't have that kinda cash.

The missus only reluctantly lets me play with it, though she's apparently got quite a reputation on the 16 mile 'school run' route . . . naughty girl.

Another R here
 

05/96
855 R
Auto
Red
174k+
LEICESTERSHIRE

Full Tints All Round,just Pick The Car Up From Huddersfield Today And Wow I Love It

1996 850R Saloon
Modded
179,000 Miles
Auto
Red
Black Interior

1996 850R Estate
Standard
150,000 Miles
Auto
Black
Black Interior

Nov 1996
855R
MANUAL
RED
104000 miles
WEST LOTHIAN

Hi,


1997 on a P
855R
Dark Olive Green (bit dirty at the mo to be honest)
auto
145000m
Essex


John