The story goes like this. We first became interested in the V70 about 6-7 months ago after seeing several on the highway. After doing some research we decided to wait to purchase because we were in the midst of buying and selling a home. We closed on a new home in November and in December we decided we had better get a new truck, ( so as to haul new things to the new house .) So as it stood, in January we had a 2001 Nissan Frontier, an 87 IROC and a 92 Honda Civic. Well my wife rammed someone with the Honda so we went on the hunt for another vehicle, ( IROC not very good in the snow.) After a few days of searching we had decided to get a Subaru Outback or a Legacy, but when we went to take a look at one that we saw on a website we also saw a 1998 V70 AWD with 66k on it. Well my wife is an accountant, need I say more, so she watches the pennies, but after driving this thing she came back and said " … you have to drive this thing the seat wraps around your body " so I did ( drive it .) Well we both loved it and at the price we HAD to buy it. So what's the problem you say. I've been looking through all of the posting and man I'm scared … if this car is as fragile as this board and others make it out to be this will be my first and last Volvo. Keep in mind I love it so far. I didn't get a manual so I printed the one off of the website and sometimes I go out in the garage and sit in it to familiarize myself with all of the goodies. My point is I have serviced my other vehicles myself, saving thousands of dollars … changing timing belts, replacing heads, replacing distributors etc. If my wife sees where this thing is going to nickel/dime us to death there will be no more Vs in the garage ( I love this car ) … Am I paranoid or is this just a few out of the masses that this stuff is happening to? I won't list the examples, I assume everyone here has read the prior posts. OBTW good site.

Tony … from Maryland