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Why no turbo

posted by  someone claiming to be Lavesh on  Fri Jul 11 12:09 CST 2003 [RELATED]

OK, maybe I'm not familiar w/ the engine layout of the 850/70 series, but I didn't see any black box(or whatever) between the shiny "turkey basting pan" bolted to the firewall and the engine block, which is in where I'd expected the turbo to be. The salesperson also said it didn't have a turbo. (No boost gauge either in the dash, if that means anything.) He said h.p. was around 170.

Regarding SE trim: This one no sunroof. I've eyeballed other XC70s with heated leather, but no "SE" badge. Not important.

In other news--
S90: I made it through 2 good years, before the one bad year(Evap., PNP, Oil Seals, engine mounts). (You think I should quit the S90 before the score is 2-to-2?) I'm obviously OK if the score after this year is 3-to-1.

This XC70 has 3 years/60K mi. remaining on the original warranty, so that mitigates the expense somewhat. I purchased the s90 used at 36K with 1 year/12K mi. remaining on the warranty, out of which I got a free battery right at 49,000 miles. The major stuff hit at around 100K. Consumer Reports' "not recommended" rating for the '97 s90 is consistent w/ my experience; the '00 AWD 70-series are currently rated "average".






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