What's your model Volvo and what DONT you like about it?

[m0bzy]

Originally Posted by m0bzy

No real complaints except for the blasted clonking drivers seat.
Fog lights are worse than useless
As I have only owned this car for five and a half years and in that time I have increased the mileage to 69000 miles,I suppose I shall get to dislike it with time.

Mike

I knew things would go downhill:
Front Goodyears worn out after only 22'000 miles.
Both bottom ball joints require replacement.
By the time they are done,I will have spent £1100 on mechanical replacements since November 2003!!!!! Excluding tyres . Is there no end to this.?

[Pudlog]

My 760 GLE Est. is guilty of traveling more than 500k miles still runs well but a sun roof let water into roof space, drains did not fully clear the damp. roof is rotting spoiling a big gentle pussey cat with the most smooth enjoyable drive.
What a moter to add a KERS system too. Not the F1 system more a down hill retarder/economy assister.

[440anator]

1. teh choke is very very tempremental
2. very dodgy idle wen choke is all the way in (any advice lol)
3. (no power steering ) so wen im pullin out quick the steering wheel is all frigged up

still love em lol

i want 240 or 850 ne1 sellin?

[foggyjames]

Originally Posted by m0bzy

Front Goodyears worn out after only 22'000 miles.

That's pretty good going for a big heavy FWD car. The rears wear very slowly, as compensation! You can only expect to get around 6k out of a set of fronts in a T5. I got 18k out of the Vredesteins I had on the front of my S70 (also a 2.5 20v), and I was pretty over the moon with that, given that I drive it hard.

Originally Posted by m0bzy

By the time they are done,I will have spent £1100 on mechanical replacements since November 2003!!!!! Excluding tyres . Is there no end to this.?

£1100 in over five years...barely over £200 a year? Many people pay far more than that each month in finance payments on a new car! In two years (and 40k miles) my S70 has had a clutch, air mass meter, power steering pump, and two CV gaiters...and I think it's done reasonably well. At retail price (not from the dealer) there's about £500 there. There have been a few other items, but they've been the result of mis-diagnosis / stupidity.

cheers

James

[m0bzy]

Originally Posted by foggyjames

That's pretty good going for a big heavy FWD car. The rears wear very slowly, as compensation! You can only expect to get around 6k out of a set of fronts in a T5. I got 18k out of the Vredesteins I had on the front of my S70 (also a 2.5 20v), and I was pretty over the moon with that, given that I drive it hard.


£1100 in over five years...barely over £200 a year? Many people pay far more than that each month in finance payments on a new car! In two years (and 40k miles) my S70 has had a clutch, air mass meter, power steering pump, and two CV gaiters...and I think it's done reasonably well. At retail price (not from the dealer) there's about £500 there. There have been a few other items, but they've been the result of mis-diagnosis / stupidity.

cheers

James

Well that nice Mr Brown is willing to give me £2000 for the old lady to get her off the road so that I can buy(on credit) a little oil burner made somewhere on the other side of the world!!!
I have replaced the Goodyears with Vredenstiens,the old tyres had only worn on the shoulders of course,but then I do enjoy hustling through the bends.

Mike

[foggyjames]

They're desperate to keep people in car manufacturing jobs...

A friend did just manage to get a brand new runaround for his Mrs for about £4.5k (with £2k from the scrappage scheme), which you can't really argue with...but I can't say I'm rushing to have the S70 crushed so I can blow the remaining £28k on an equivalent new S80.

cheers

James

[m0bzy]

Originally Posted by foggyjames

They're desperate to keep people in car manufacturing jobs...

A friend did just manage to get a brand new runaround for his Mrs for about £4.5k (with £2k from the scrappage scheme), which you can't really argue with...but I can't say I'm rushing to have the S70 crushed so I can blow the remaining £28k on an equivalent new S80.

cheers

James

The problem is James , that most of those "manufacturing" jobs will be elsewhere,we manufacture very few cars in this country,we assemble a hell of a lot.

Mike

[360dood]

volvo 340gl

no power steering
no power to over take slower trafic
drivers bum wormer duse not work

[testmonkey]

Originally Posted by 340dood

drivers bum wormer duse not work

Personally I'd be quite glad about that LOL

[foggyjames]

Well that's true. Very little manufacturing left now in any sector. My employer more or less ended UK-based manufacturing just over a year ago. Kinda sad, but when all the buyer are interested in is price, price, price...!

Originally Posted by 340dood

no power steering
no power to over take slower trafic

I take it that's a 1.4, then? Yeah, they're pretty slow. 1.7s are ok. Better with a Renault 16v swap

Get a 360, and both problems are solved...especially if you turbocharge it

cheers

James