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I am looking to buy a newish volvo - what to look out for

posted by  MadeInJapan on  Wed Sep 27 15:35 CST 2006
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Nothing wrong with auto transmissions. Acutally, if you're looking for a turbo vehicle, auto trannies are hard to avoid...very very few manual tranny turbo's were imported in the FWD line-up. So, I agree with you for the most part about the XC's but not the auto tranny. However, since '03 XC's have been mighty fine as well. If you look at non-XC wagon's the V70's just keep getting better and better every year. I would avoid all '99-'01 vehicles just because there's the hassle of the failing ETM's, even though they're under warranty now for 10yrs/200K miles.
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic (125K), 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red (45K), Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon (Sold at 140K and miss her). My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.






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