My **educated** opinion: you do NOT want a 960.

After reading Tom's latest story, I would no sooner buy a 960 as I would knowingly (and I'll be polite here) stick my hand into a running garbage disposal.

In fact thanks to Tom's posts at least one other "regular" here noticed symptoms and obtained compression test results that suggested that HIS 960 was itself on the verge of a "Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure" itself.

If you want a 940T that's not a bad alternative. My local Volvo dealer got a nice low mileage '92 745T in as a trade last week and it didn't even make it to the lot, one of the techs grabbed it. Those in the "know" seem to prefer the old B230FTs to the "new" alloy engines... the best years for the B230FT were '94 and '95, they have oil cooled pistons and reinforced blocks. FWIW.

I've been looking for a 945T myself for over a year, most of the ones I've looked at appeared to have had barnyard animals or homeless people or (worse) smokers boarded in them. My conclusion is that NICE 940Ts aren't disposed of, they tend to be kept by their owners. So good luck; and if you run across a nice light silver one with records and it's the wrong color, or wrong number of cylinders or wrong number of doors please post it here because I'd like it!

Thank you!

-Phil Punxsutawney

A Volvo ('98 V70T5M, 87k)
A Honda Odyssey
several others running and not running