Thinking of buying a Volvo Wagon

Hi
I live in the northeast of Canada and I am thinking about buying a
Volvo wagon A used car dealer near me has the following for sale

1997 850 Wagon 5 Speed manual with 169KM on it nice car but during my
brief inpsection the blower motor was gone. This car is not a turbo
and has the 20V engine

1997 850 Wagon Turbo automatic Nice Car but has very high k 420,000km
on it but appears to be very well looked after

1994 940 Turbo Wagon Automatic 169,000 km on it nice car sunroof tilts
but doesnt slide back.

It does snow here and that is a concern are there any special areas to
check out particularly for rust. Any ideas opinions suggestions would
be appreciated. Any opinions on the higher mileage one like what are
high wear items? No matter what car I go with
im going to have it checked out by a local volvo specialist.

Thanks in Advance
JT

 

So am I, I really miss not having a wagon. Personally, I'd be looking real
close at the 940t, but I'm partial to RWD.

 

Don the 9 series are all RWD. The last of the great days of Volvo. In case
you missed some of my posts, I switched from Volvo to BMW when the 850
arrived. I didn't want to work on them. The 2's 7's and 9's are great cars.
I have a 740 and a 240. Don't know how many miles because the odometer fails
at about 150 miles. But I don't care. I'm a Volvo Master and they are the
easiest cars to repair.
Go for the 940.

 

Well said that man. <g>

Taff..........

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I live in the UK

I agree withe the previous post that the rear wheel drive Volvos are
the best.

I have a 1997 940 Turbo - The best car I have ever owned

Rav

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Easy to say, you don't have to deal with ice & snow like the alpine
countries do. RWD is a POS with ice on the road.
FWD is much better, of course AWD is even better if affordable.

 

If the RWD car has a manual transmission and a driver that learns
how to drive on slick roads, it'll do just fine.

Automatic transmissions greatly reduce the ability of a driver to
handle slick surfaces; coupled with the tendancy of most drivers
to treat the accelerator and brake pedals as binary devices, you'll
get a loss of control, whether it's RWD or FWD.


Gary

 

Unless it's been damaged i've never seen a rusted 800,900, and late model
700 series that has been rusted up... And I live in Southern Ontario, so we
get all the snowy and salty roads you do - pehaps less snow and more
salt.... Our 960 doesn't have a spec of rust - except on the underside you
can see some rusted bits - on some brackets that hold up things like the
horn, the usual amount on the brakes and the suspension bits (even then,
nowhere near as much as what is on my 99 VW Golf)... The frame of the car
looks nearly mint! I've seen more frame rust on cars that have been sitting
on the lot for a year (okay it was a Ford F550, still waiting for something
to be installed over the framerails... but still, it was a painted frame)

 

Sunroof is the most scary problem of the bunch you listed there. All sound
like they could be nice cars though.