Volvos, 940, 760, 850, V70, V90, WTF?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I feel I must leap , well stumble, to the S80's defence. I ran a 2000 2.4 20v auto from 80k to 275k miles From 2003 till 2008. The first 2 years it was my work car and did about 150,000 miles with very few problems, never FTP just a few suspension and steering niggles. It always managed about 35 mpg and wasn't at all slow on the motorway,which is of course it's natural habitat.

After I finished working it,Mrs N ran it for 3 years pottering about on domestic duties and again I don't recall ever having anything go wrong, she had a 2.0 10v manual 850 before so she thought the S80 was a rocket ship.

Sold it for £2000 to a Polish guy 2 days before Christmas, he texted me on Christmas Day from Poland to say it was the best car he'd ever had, he'd driven it home almost straight from my house!

 

Sometimes look at prices of new shape S80's but then think if I'm going to drive a Mondeo it might as well have a Ford badge on it.

[Lukas]

Maybe all the elctronics are ageing very well with mileage, but not with time. When you sold yours, it was only 8 years old. Ok, wieh a lot of miles, but not old. I bought mine with already 13 years on the clock. Or I just had bad luck. 

[JohnK]

Back in 2012 I bought a 51 plate V70 2.4 manual 140. Fantastic car and super economical for its capacity.

 

I barrelled it up and down from Middlesbrough to Leicester for work, twice a week for the 6 months I had it and it was absolutely faultless. It was a one owner, full history car though with evidence of lots of recent work done to correct common faults.

 

Would have another without a doubt. Also liked both my 740 & 760 estates that I had. All of them have been fantastic load luggers.

[RichL]

 It was a one owner, full history car though with evidence of lots of recent work done to correct common faults.

 

 

 

John makes a good point here regarding the 'P26' platform cars - the 2000-2007 V70 (285), S60 (384) and S80 (184).

 

They did have their faults when new, but generally when they were fixed, they were fixed. Volvo dealer service at the time was superb, I know because I was there.

 

The amount of early ones still on the roads must say something, If there were loads of common mega-expensive fails surely they'd be gone?

[Stroller133]

Sorry to hijack thread but is about Volvo. Has anyone anything to say (good or bad) about geartronic? Is it a proper auto or is it an automated clutch? I know you can move selector across for moving gears up and down.

[RichL]

Its a proper auto, the same AW 'box but with manual over-ride as I remember.

 

Some S80 2.8/2.9's had a GM gearbox

[garethj]

So is a 740 diesel worth having, or is the 940 diesel with intercooler much better?

[Luxxo Waftybarger]

Apparently geartronic is ok in later P2s after 2004. Prior to that they had problems caused by the usual sealed for life crap said about transmission fluid changes. I've read that they take a while to warm up and show faults, was recommended to try driving at least 50 miles which seemed ridiculous. My 2006 auto box is a little reluctant to kick down which makes hills ponderous. I'd have preferred a geartronic.

[Lacquer Peel]

So is a 740 diesel worth having, or is the 940 diesel with intercooler much better?

I think the non intercooled D24T loses a fair bit of power.

To confuse matters slightly, I think you can get 760s like bo11ox's with the D24TIC and possibly some 740s.

[Station]

What Volvo was the one that next door drove in The Good Life (the yellow one)?

Can't understand the naming conventions for Volvos either.

[Station]

This one, not a fan of Volvos, I'd have one of these!

 

[cms206]

What Volvo was the one that next door drove in The Good Life (the yellow one)?

Can't understand the naming conventions for Volvos either.

It was a yellow 145.

 

The Volvo naming conventions made sense until 1982 then fell to fuck.

 

1 - 100-series

4 - 4cyl (either B19 or B21 at that age I'd think)

5 - 5-door

 

Easy as peas!

[Richard]

Did that 145 not turn up in another sitcom as well?

[garethj]

I think I've got the hang of this now, I want a diesel estate with manual gearbox, intercooler on the engine, not fussed if it's a 740 or 940. I think 760s and 960s were almost always automatics.

 

hashtag cash waiting, as the youth of today would say