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Post #184,800 by tuberculosis 11/22/04 12:52:55 PM 8/21/07 5:53:16 AM Reply	Hmmmm I have 1989 Volvo with 190k miles on it. Bought on ebay for about $1700. I put a little money into it for brakes and such and its been trouble free for a year (fingers crossed). Had college roomie with volvo wagon that went 700k before being killed in collision so I'm thinking its got a few more miles left in it (and I only drive on weekends anyhow). "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:53:16 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #184,814 by a6l6e6x 11/22/04 2:08:24 PM Reply	I'm on my third Volvo. They do use a better grade of materials in their parts. The cars can last. On the flip side when these parts go, they are expensive and so is the labor cost. Even parts like a battery which except for the dimensions will cost noticeably more than a battery of identical performance specification but of different shape. It's what's called "eating high on hog". Alex In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)
Post #184,856 by tuberculosis 11/23/04 2:13:35 AM 8/21/07 5:54:24 AM Reply	Any repair bill over a kilobuck is likely to result in abandonment. There's plenty more beaters on ebay where that one came from. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:54:24 AM EDT Expand All History

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