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2000 is first year S and V40, they were in Europe for several years before supposedly. Although I am not a driveway mechanic I do work on them regularily and they are not too bad to work on. Timing belts are a little tight to work on and the right side engine mount is different on the earlier cars but none of it is too difficult to get to. They went back to lug nuts on these cars but because of the wheel offset they tend to fall off when you shoot the nuts loose. They have problems with the brake vacuum pump and pump switches going bad in them. If you start the car when stone cold and the first few brake applications it feels like the car might not stop you will know what the problem is. Fuel pressure regulators are another thing that goes bad with them, they are right up on top and a piece of cake to replace. I have done one or two turbos on them, seen a tensioner come apart at about 106k and scatter the motor, ooooops! The rear brakes are of the type that you have to screw the piston back into the caliper on so you will need the special tool to do them, the tools are not that spendy. Aside from that stuff all of the usual maintenance stuff and fluid flushes apply. All in all not too bad of a car.
Mark
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