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Volvo cares a lot about failures on the road - that is why I had my wife"s and two daughter's Volvos serviced at my dealer.
In over 500k miles driven, we have only suffered 4 problems on the road, 2 740 alternators that failed at almost exactly 215K miles, an 850 starter, and a stuck caliper each at over 125K miles.
While I doubt it, the techs may have pictures of bushings that are in tough shape. My son-in-law who is a Subaru tech tells me that Subis are good on bushings and motor mounts, but he does on occasion tell a customer that their tie-rod bushings need replacement before failure.
Have the dealer show you the problem.
It IS possible for mechanics to have access to failure mileages or time statistics - for instance, I supervised our police mechanic, and he had lots of failure info, such as when power steering pumps should be rebuilt. We were willing to replace many items when we were advised to, in order to avoid a failure at high speed.
In Rolling Magazine, there was a story about having 742s built in Italy. When the asked the Italian designers how many cycles the gas doors were designed for - they were told that 2000 cycles were anticipated over the life of the car - Volvo wanted 10,000 cycles, so the doors had to be re-designed. They destroyed most of the first 80 or so cars that were built because they did not meet quality standards,
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