How Slow is Slow??

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Chris1Roll

I'm awfully confused, I thought we were originally talking about an H reg 740, but that MOT history is for an L reg 940?
Regardkess, the History is baaaaad!
Personally, I think it's much too much money. For that, it would need to be spotless underneath.

Don't do what I did when I bought my C70, which was buy it because I was getting a bit desperate!

Hi Chris,

Apologies, my mistake, the 940 he had on site, the H reg 740 is a probate buy so could arrive in weeks.

Yes I will try to heed your advice, not to ‘buy in haste, repent at leisure’

Cheers
Steve

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by tofufi

Hi Steve,

Has any diagnosis been done on your old 940 yet? It may not have anything much wrong with it - so it seems a bit premature to be considering replacing it!

Better the devil you know, most of the time! Certainly where cars are concerned...

Hi,

Whilst no expert, I did take suggestions and following day, turned it over by hand, it turned but had ominous metallic scraping sounds, my gut feel is ring scraping the bore, also it had a ‘tight’ spot when turning that didn’t feel a good sign.

Car is good so plan to fully rebuild engine as and when I get time.

Cheers
Steve

[SalvadorP]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Hi,

Whilst no expert, I did take suggestions and following day, turned it over by hand, it turned but had ominous metallic scraping sounds, my gut feel is ring scraping the bore, also it had a ‘tight’ spot when turning that didn’t feel a good sign.

Car is good so plan to fully rebuild engine as and when I get time.

Cheers
Steve

did you find out why it wasn't starting? did you check if the cps burned?

[Steve 940]

Hi SalvadorP

You are indeed correct, that the next step would be to do the standard fault find , i.e. do we have sparks and fuel, I think Classic Swede suggested this a while ago.

Unfortunately I just don’t have time to do this at the present, so the idea was finding a stopgap car, and then sort my old Wentworth out when I have more time.

Cheers
Steve

[Chris1Roll]

Going by the amount of time I spent searching and looking at rusty overpriced crap, fixing yours might be quicker!


That said, and notwithstanding that I personally don't like the face-lift 740 front end, this might be worth a punt at the ~£1750ish point I reckon.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204641424...mis&media=COPY

MOT advisories are relatively minor and no history of corrosion.

God knows what the true mileage is though, That's not a 44k seat bolster!

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Chris1Roll

Going by the amount of time I spent searching and looking at rusty overpriced crap, fixing yours might be quicker!


That said, and notwithstanding that I personally don't like the face-lift 740 front end, this might be worth a punt at the ~£1750ish point I reckon.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204641424...mis&media=COPY

MOT advisories are relatively minor and no history of corrosion.

God knows what the true mileage is though, That's not a 44k seat bolster!

Hi Chris,

Oh well that's not a waste of time, just research

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately I need an estate.

Agree the seat would tend to suggest mega miles, or a previous owner who dressed in sandpaper clothing

Cheers
Steve

[bob12]

Yes, as Chris says and, as for the ebay saloon, I personally would'nt even consider it! At face value there's strange things about it especially the mileage and the driver's seat wear. That style of uphostery is about one of the most robust Volvo did at that time and it would take a fair amout of use to wear like that. Further I assume that engine is the B200E with Bosch K Jet CI injection. Much better to try and get one with Bosch LH2.4 which became available from 1 Jan 1990.

Bob.

[Chris1Roll]

Urgh, electronics!

The F engines were a fair bit less powerful than the Kjet E engines too.
From my owners hand book:

B230F 116hp, 183NM LHJet
B230E 131hp, 190NM Kjet

B200E 121hp, 158NM
B200F wasn't available, but you could have had a carb version with 103hp lol.

[Steve 940]

Well I’ve seen some kind of sense, thanks to you guys, and withdrawn interest on the 940 snail rust fest.

Have sent a email asking about this little shiny thing, asking for reg number, photo 2, the eye jumps to bottom of NSR cill, looks suspiciously rusty compared to the rest of it. Also mentions gearbox service, suppose they just mean oil change??

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1639246

At the other end of the scale, history not too bad, with preferred auto and a 2.3 rather than my 2.0 turbo. Downside it’s Guildford but only a train away I suppose.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1686679

Cheers
Steve

[griston64]

Originally Posted by Chris1Roll

Urgh, electronics!

The F engines were a fair bit less powerful than the Kjet E engines too.
From my owners hand book:

B230F 116hp, 183NM LHJet
B230E 131hp, 190NM Kjet

B200E 121hp, 158NM
B200F wasn't available, but you could have had a carb version with 103hp lol.

Was the B200F only in the 740 then ?