Remember the £300 volvo?

The Edge · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:44

She's cleaned up quite well!

Shampood the inside yesterday, which didn't look all that dirty but you should have seen what came out! T Cutted and super resined the outside today and put some bumper black on the trim. Looks magic now compared to how it did!

Mechanically it's had an oil and filter change, new plugs, HT leads, cap and rotor arm. Purrs like a kitten now! Jobs to do soon (Tomorrow hopefully) are to sort out a minor exhaust blow and adjust the handbrake so that it's not pulling through the roof.

She's averaging about 32-35mpg which is a little more than i expected.

danza · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:49

That's just ridiculous for £300! :eek:

Looks very clean now. What is the bodywork like? Any rust?

The Edge · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:55

The tailgate has some very slight bubbling around the trim, there's a tiny spot on the offside wheelarch about the size of a small screwhead and one similar size bubble on the passenger door. Nothing that can't be sorted!

More pressing for ultimate tidyness are new/used light clusters on the back becasue someone has cleaned them with thinners and a new glovebox door becasue it's obviously been broken into.

DevilsAdvocate · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:57

Scrubs up well!

mattpc · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:01

great car for the money tbh. Find me an estate for £300 that is better than this and to say the least I will be shocked. It is a well known fact all good window cleaners would pay at least £500 for this car!

Clarkey · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:10

Bargain!

Crowze · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:12

Man that's depressing... paid ten times that for my 850, albeit a good few years ago. Nice find

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ajgoodfellow · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:14

Bargain - amazing how good it looks after all these years

Should last forever too, being a Volvo

MrSix · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:17

I will definately get myself a vulva estate when I need a workhorse.

MikeHunt79 · 30 Aug 2008 at 19:22

Zomg that's a lot of car for £300. Great for moving big boxes around.

fonzee · 30 Aug 2008 at 20:19

<3 850s, ours had been solid! what engine?

GeForce · 30 Aug 2008 at 20:32

Can't complain really for £300!

jongeeone · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:05

Its worth more in scrap?

Looks good.

mattpc · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:11

jongeeone said:
Its worth more in scrap?

Looks good.

Not quite but I'm pretty sure he could get about £150 for it.

The Edge · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:13

It's a 2 litre 20 valve. No rocket ship but miles better than a 1.9 n/a diesel

brakeinup · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:24

Looks great! And for that money its a quality find

fonzee · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:44

The Edge said:
It's a 2 litre 20 valve. No rocket ship but miles better than a 1.9 n/a diesel

ah the lump designed by porshe

wow thats pretty good economy for that lump! i'm guessing its a manual? ours is an auto and we usually don't see more than 25-26mpg...

The Edge · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:48

It's manual, once it gets up to speed it does about 40 to 43mpg on the display. It doesn't like stop start stuff very much though.

It costs about £7 more to fill up than the ZX did and does roughly the same mileage per tank at the moment. I'm not doing much round town stuff currently, we'll see what happens next week for that i'm not expecting miracles!!

wassap · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:53

Now thats true bangernomics.

fonzee · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:58

The Edge said:
It's manual, once it gets up to speed it does about 40 to 43mpg on the display. It doesn't like stop start stuff very much though.

It costs about £7 more to fill up than the ZX did and does roughly the same mileage per tank at the moment. I'm not doing much round town stuff currently, we'll see what happens next week for that i'm not expecting miracles!!

yeah the whole stop starting issue on these lumps is common, need to left it run for at least a couple of minutes before turning it off.