Is it possible to move house using a Volvo 740 estate?

[ProgRocker]

Just curious!

 

The biggest single pieces of furniture I have is a normal double mattress and divan bases (but they split into 2). Oh, and a 2 seater sofa.

[barmatt]

no reason you can't do it, it'll just take a few trips.

[vulgalour]

I moved house with a Mk2 Polo, so I'd say it's entirely possible.

[skattrd]

I moved in to my current house using a Nissan Prairie - mk1 of course

[cms206]

I had a two seater settee in the council estate, a double mattress should too if you fight with it enough. My personal best was a washing machine, an under worktop fridge, a fold up table and chairs and three flatpack boxes containing a coffee table, a nest of tables and a TV unit all in one trip.

[Spiny Norman]

I thought all the top removal firms used Volvo estates?

[Des]

Get a roofrack and the sky, or overhead lines, are your limit. I've moved a washing machine on a Sprite bootrack, so I reckon a 740 could move a whole house if you have a long ratchet strap.

[Jim Bell]

Ive moved house with a Volvo 360.

 

Had to cheat and use a Suzuki Supercarry/Bedford Rascal/Diahatsu Hijet Thing to move 2 King size mattres's's's.

 

Everything else went in the hatchback.

 

 

 

You could move literally anything in a 740 Wagon.

[eddyramrod]

740 estate + roofrack + trailer = complete removal kit You can get as much stuff in/on it as the suspension will stand, basically, so load with confidence.

[dean36014]

I moved house twice using just a renault laguna estate with roof rack. That included a large 3 seater sofa on the roof, with the 2 seater inside the car. Its possible, but it just takes time, so many trips to do, which isn't bad if its a local move. Last time i moved i hired a long wheel base van, collected Friday afternoon, dropped back Monday am, £100 all in. Was alot quicker and easier and in my eyes money well spent.

[willswitchengage]

You can move house with anything really, I did it with my old BX with the desk that I'm presently writing on and a bicycle on the roof, with space for a helper (father) in the front seat too. Even once helped a friend move in her C1 with a chair 69ing the front passenger seat.

[Six-cylinder]

I bought a new large side-by-side fridge freezer a couple of years ago (1.77m high x 0.9m wide and 0.67m +handle deep), I happen to own a Volvo 740 at the time and it fitted in with the tailgate shut.

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[ProgRocker]

^impressive.

 

Excellent comments chaps, thanks.

 

Probably be less hassle doing what I did last time and hiring out a Tranny for the weekend (oo-errr Missus) With a high roof this time so I don't risk cracking my head on the roof.

 

Still....gotta find another place to move to first.

[Micrashed]

I moved house using a Polo breadvan, admittedly I didnt have as much shit back then as I do now.

[Wilko220]

I once moved using a Rover 800 fastback and a length of rope, so a massive Ovlov should be no trouble.

[STUNO]

Still....gotta find another place to move to first.

 

This man has superb organising skillzz

[Cavcraft]

Of course you can! I moved and used a Mk2 Cavalier saloon as a furniture van.

[dollywobbler]

When we moved house last, we used a Mini. And a 2CV. And a Citroen CX estate. And a BX. Several times. And an LDV Maxus. And an Iveco 7.5 ton luton. We really do have far too much shit...

[fordperv]

all hail the mighty volvo, i have faith, i moved into my place in 2008 using grandads 53 plate xsara picarso (1.6 pez variety for extra shite points still has it today only done 30,000 miles)

[mk1_4dr]

Last time I moved myself, it was with a Mk2 Golf GTi. That included my kingsize bed and mattress, a double wardrobe, chest of drawers and towing escRot (though, obviously, not all at the same time)

 

I have used the LOLvo to help a couple of mates move, I actually fit a whole house worth of stuff in one trip (less the suite, bed and whitegoods) so it is eminently doable.

[catsinthewelder]

When Ms C moved her stuff accross into my flat from hers she got a lift with one of my other flatmates in a Suzuki Swift and I walked carrying a rat cage.

 

When we moved here it took 8 trips with a LDV luton, 3 with a HiJet pickup, 2 with a Corrola and about 26 with a Peugeot 205 including one trip carrying one of these in the back

 

 

 

Typically the bloody campervan was broken and came over empty via a friends place.

[holbeck]

Last time we moved, man with a van was doing the furniture. However he took one look at my Workshop.- Female Edit - [shed full of Junk] and ran for the hills.

 

I moved the lot using my Mitsubishi Colt, It's amazing what you can force into a 3dr hatchback if you don't mind rust on the upolstery.

[Lacquer Peel]

I moved a ton of elm firewood using a Volvo 940 turbo diesel estate. HTH.

[Shep Shepherd]

I moved house using The Volvo in 2005. It took me five trips to move everything. In hindsight, I should have hired a van.

[rml2345]

Moved a mate less fridge a few years back using a 740 saloon. Oddly enough, all that weight had no affect whatsoever it it's performance.

Didn't stop as well though...

[davidfowler2000]

Your saloon, rml245, for all it is less powerful than mine and Andy's, is relentless. It just doesn't stop accelerating.

[alfetta]

I put all sorts of junk in an old saab 900 hatch, mattress, fridge freezer. no probelm! The hatch rake made it a bit less useful than a proper estate but damn good!

[RobT]

I did it 2 years ago with a 740, just meant lots of trips, but seeing as the move was only a mile away it didn't matter. The usual lack of headlining meant everytime I scraped the roof with a bed, sofa or whatever I'd get showered with manky old swedish backing foam Previous to that I used a Rover Metro (Hydragas FTW!) but used a van for the big stuff.

[Pete-M]

From Liverpool to Glasgow and back in a 205 GTi 1.6 and a Nova Saloon.