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My Advice FORGET VOLVO! 850

posted by  someone claiming to be Yuri on  Tue Nov 13 13:06 CST 2007 [RELATED]

I like the way Volvo is made, since I repair practically everything myself. This Brickboard alone is a good reason to buy another Volvo - I was guided through just about any repair I had to do.

Maybe there are more reliable cars, but my Volvo never failed in a catastrophic way - all failures were gradual, with enough warning to get parts, set time, ask questions on BB.
Small things break here and there, but big ones, that actually move the car - have not failed yet (186K).
So I do not know what reliability is. If a knob breaks, of a piece of trim snaps - I am ok with it. In 7 years of driving a Volvo I have never been towed. No matter what happened, I made it on my own. To me this is reliability.

I am sure my 850 will make another 50-70K without major repairs. The problem is that I need a newer car cosmetically.

I was towed on Hondas and Oldsmobiles. Olds was probably towed more than it rode. That one would leave me stranded often. That is unreliable.





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