Comments, please? Well to be brutally honest you might want to consider paying to have someone work on your car. The bottom end might be ok but unless you drop the pan and take a look at the bearings you will probably never know. You say that based on what was in the pan it had 1-2 quarts left in in, well how many quarts did you put back into it to bring it up to the correct level. That is your indicator of how much you pumped out. Having seen a few vehicle towed back into dealerships with drain plugs that have fallen out and other things that cause them to loose their oil I can tell you the damage happens fast. I have seen them swept under the carpet and I have seen people pull pans to find that the crank and bearings were toast. Ran it for 10 minutes with low to no oil in it, huh? I remember seeing a tech change the oil in a car, forget to put oil back into it, fire it up and rev it to 2500 RPM for a no load smog test. Yep, he smoked the motor in that car. As I recall it was a 94 or 95 940 turbo with less than 15K on it. If I were in your position I would just drive the darn thing and if a problem developes down the road then so be it otherwise you are looking at dropping the pan to take a look at the crank and bearings. If you really had 2-3 quarts of oil in it and can verify this and it really only idled for less than 10 minutes you will probably be ok. Pardon my skepticism but in my business you hear these sugar coated stories all of the time, you know the one that goes "I only drove it a mile to get it off of the freeway, how can the engine be barbequed in that time" Hopefully for you no permanent damage was done and in the future you might want to consider a competent Volvo independent repair shop.
Mark
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