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Re: Thinking about a new brick. 200 86

posted by  someone claiming to be Gary Smith on  Mon Oct 29 17:01 CST 2001 [RELATED]

Josh, I like the way your parents think. Any chance they'd adopt a 51-year old aerospace engineer?

The 960 is the pinnacle of RWD Volvo-dom. From a reliability standpoint is is light years away from the very simple 122's in the sense that there are so many electronic amenities which can go poof!, but... that is one of the sweetest six-cylinders out there. One drawback is that the older 960's required a timing belt change about every 24,000 miles. I just read something here in the BB recently which explained why such frequent changes were necessary, and there may have been a suggestion as to a retrofit. You'll have to do some research to find it. Take a couple of hours and comb thru the BB archives to get a sense of what else may be fragile on that car, but I think it's a real short list. If the price is right, I would go for it.





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