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Thank you all so much for your time and information I really appreciate it! This website is so helpfull I am so glad my aunt told me about it! I am going to check out those web sites for the radiator part and I will let you know how it goes, I just wanted to say thank you all very much in the meantime!
If the general consensus is that the transmission is going to go on this, even if I do replace the radiator, then I am going to indebt myself to you again and ask for some educated opinions on another situation I could invest in.
To give you a little background on my previous car situation I had a '96 jeep grand cherokee limited,the transmission went out on that after I had just paid an arm and a leg to fix it because someone who only had uninsured motorist's insurance hit me right smack in the front grill enough to do a good bit of damage to all those expensive parts right up front there, as you can imagine it was QUITE costly and I just couldn't afford to put the money into a jeep transmission after that. So I had to pretty much take that at a loss and now I have virtually NO money to invest in a car and need transportation desperately. Am also not crazy to keep investing money in a car that will probably end up with the same problem I just had re: the transmission.
My mother's boyfriend warned me about the volvo I posted about for the ATF fluid (I had the year wrong in the first post it is actually an 87 but that is a moot point) anyway, he knew the guy who was selling it so he sold it to me for $300 and I figured even if it was a bust and turned out to be a terribly unreliable car that I could at least make that back off the parts on it.
What I wanted to run by you was another car that seems like it could be a good deal and get some advice on it this time BEFORE I go ahead and pay the $$ :o) -
A girl my sister works with is selling her 1990 740 GLE (140K mileage) it is in perfect condition cosmetically - she has all the records for it since new (it has been meticulously maintained) and her aunt owned it before her (so it has been in one family). She got a promotion and bought herself a new car but here is the catch with THIS volvo. She said that it has an external head gasket leak which she was quoted $1200 to fix. She also said that she has recently replaced the water pump and radiator because her mechanic misdiagnosed the problem at first but since she doesnt NEED to fix it and doesnt NEED to sell the car what she is offering me is the car for $1000 (she said that was negotiable since she is friends with my sister) but she doesnt want to pay to fix it. So I would have to buy the car from her and then immediately invest another 1,000 to get it running. I can afford that but I cant afford much else aside from that in parts to get it running so do you know what else typically goes with the head gasket and needs replacing? And what would cause an "external head gasket leak" (I am not even sure what that is specifically or what function the head gasket performs I should say - I will do some research on here, and I am sure I can put that one together as far as its function, but just wanted to fully explain to you how naieve I feel when it comes to things like this!
When I asked my mother's boyfriend about it he said something about the heads would probably be warped if it has a head gasket leak so that I wasn't just looking at a one time cost of 1200 to get it running. (He seems to know what he is talking about but the explanations on here are much more user-friendly to me. I want to understand my cars and WHY things go wrong etc not just a rattling off of names of parts that I don't know the function for... which is what he tends to do a lot of the time so I really appreciate the detailed explanations you have taken the time to spell out for my mechanically challenged self so far! Since you seem extremely knowledgeable about the layout of brickboard if you don't know about the head gasket could you direct me where to look or post a message on it? (I read and printed out those articles for the FAQs and High Mileage you recommended which I really appreciated also) Thank you again for all of the time you have taken to help me already I really do appreciate it.
Take care!
Amy
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