Andy said:
In the UK the V70 was available from early 1997.
I have a 1989 740 GL Estate and a Feb 97 V70 2.5 (non turbo). A few years
ago I went through the service records to see how much I had spent on NON
service repairs to each of the two cars. At that time the 740 had 115k
miles on the clock and the V70 60k. I was amazed to find that I had spent
roughly twice the sum on the V70 as I had on the 740 and in half the time
period.
Andy
I'm not surprised. Our '96 850 has been much less robust than was the
'92 240 we also owned. In fact, I sold the '92 to a friend and he has
it up to almost 300,000 miles now with the only big repair being a
recent new automatic transmission.
The repair on the 850 which really frosted me was being charged almost
$600 to repair a degraded rubber hose at the top of the fuel tank. It
seems that Volvo used a cheap grade of rubber for many of the fuel and
vac. hoses. I've also had to replace all of the little rubber elbows
under the hood used on various vac. lines as they just self-destructed.
This is a non-turbo manual transmission vehicle, so the under hood
temperatures should be much lower than on the turbo-charged automatic
transmission cars.
Volvo seems to have been doing lots of cost-cutting over recent years.
John
