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my 10 year old 850 - about to make up for lack my of maintenance.

posted by  Three5bangers on  Fri Dec 24 16:44 CST 2004
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The car , mine since birth, only has 59K miles (5speed) but all I ever did was change oil regularly (6months.). This means original hoses, timing belt, coolant, brake fluid, accessory belt. Dealer did the 30K maint for me (prob 5 years ago).
so -
1. which hose is most likely to burst first and at what age? I was thinking of just replacing the main radiator hoses and maybe not the 2 hoses for the heater core.
2. Timing belt - book says 70k miles or 7 years. I'm still thinking of stalling to 65K miles at 10.5 years (only because my kids are learning to drive stick, who knows if car will last 3 months with them behind wheel).
3. Anything I forgot? Maybe I should replace thermostat.
4. I guess I could have the brake fluid flushed.

I'll check bay13 to see how to bleed air from coolant if I decide to do myself.

Also 60K maint is due - at 30k I was surpriced they didn't replace some distributor component (cap & rotor) but that's for 60k as i recall.

steve







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    my 10 year old 850 - about to make up for lack my of maintenance.

    posted by  bill d cat on  Sat Dec 25 15:10 CST 2004
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    I've been driving Eurojunk for the last 22 years, one Saab made it to just under 300k miles (not in my hands) and so far as I know a radiator hose has never failed. I'd wait for it to break, or the evil plastic end tanks of the Volvo radiator to begin to leak, and replace them at that time. Ditto for the thermostat.

    I'd replace the timing belt SOON, and also the hydraulic tensioner and the idler pulley. Forget the water pump unless it's leaking. At the same time replace the serpentine belt.

    Otherwise, I'd just replace all the filters, including the fuel filter, and change all the fluids, including the brake fluid.

    -BTC

    '98 V70 T5M, 153k mi, front IPD stabilizer bar, rear factory HD bar, Bilstein HD, Volvo strut tower brace and skidplate, e-codes, V-1, Mobil-1 since new







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    my 10 year old 850 - about to make up for lack my of maintenance.

    posted by  Volvo945 on  Sat Dec 25 14:55 CST 2004
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    The original hoses on my '95 (115k miles) look and feel great. I wouldn't do those unless you could see problems.

    You're on borrowed time with that timing belt. Do the accessory belt at the same time.

    Complete fluid flush (incl. brakes) would be in order, and theromstat.

    Plugs, filter, dist. cap wouldn't hurt, and fuel filter.

    This car should have a lot of life left in it.
    --
    '94 945t; '95 854 base







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