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. . . my wife loves it.
We purchased a black 2002 V40 a couple of months ago. It's my wife's commuter car. (I got her '95 Subaru SVX with 130,xxx miles on it, that I've been lusting over for five years.)
Here's the story: When we left the dealership for the first time, we barely got out of town (the dealer is over 100 miles away) when we noticed that the A/C didn't work. Brought it back and waited, and waited, and waited. We were pretty steamed by closing time, and the dealer rented us a Focus (bleaghh!) to drive home. They figured out the problem early the next a. (split vacuum hose) but wanted to thoroughly check out the car before we took delivery (this time). They delivered it the following day. The next day was a Friday. We had the car for a whole weekend. The following Monday, she (the wife) was within a block of getting home, and hit a mini-van. It was raining, hard, just past dusk, and the other driver was not running with any lights on at all. (I say that for my wife's sake. It was the first accident she's had in over 30 years, and she drives 25,000+ miles/year.) She was going slow enough that the air bags didn't deploy, but fast enough that her glassed flew onto the dash. The Caravan was totaled. I actually drove the car 40+ miles each way (twice) to get estimates and then to take it to the chosen body shop. From inside the car, you could not tell that anything had happened to it at all. No, squeaks, rattles, nothing. (Well, except for the turn signal falling out and getting lodged between the tire and the wheel well - that made a little noise.) The body shop had quite a waiting list (it came highly recommended - even by the insurance estimator) so we lost the car for nearly six weeks.
We've had it back for about five weeks now and we are delighted. No rattles at all (I didn't hear any when it was wrecked either.), and the paint match was perfect (Something I had heard about, but had never actually seen.). Besides that, it's REAL PAINT covering the front of the car now. Not that environmentally-friendly water-based garbage. We just returned from a long weekend visiting our daughter's family, nearly 2000 miles worth, and managed 32.4 miles per gallon (at about 5-over - bears were out in force on Memorial Day weekend). This is interesting. We actually got better gas mileage in the mountains, than in the flats.
Would I do it all over again? Heck no! I wanted the Subaru Outback H-6 LLB. Would my wife do it again? In a heartbeat. (That's what really counts.)
Steve
'95 Subaru SVX, Polo Green (Kermit) 130,000 miles
'02 Volvo V40, Sapphire Black (Shadowfax) 5,000 miles
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