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The engine, given proper preventive maintenance, will be the last thign to go. Around here, it seems about every 3rd car on the road is a Volvo. Old 240's abound. Most of the older cars are havign rust problems. We always say if this was Phoenix or someplace like that, we could drive them until we die and pass them down to our grandchildren. If you've found a good clean car, that's 80% of the way to having a good reliable car. The wiring harness is another 10%. The rest is simply all the common stuff that any car would need:
Brakes, tires, exhaust, tuneup items, filters, front end wear parts, and a couple of odds-and-ends electrical items.
Absolutely replace the fuel pump relay if the date on it is > 7yrs old.
All the rest are items you can do yourself or pay not-too-much to get repaired. There's very little on these cars you can't service yourself.
I know of many cars around here with equal mileage to that, and my own Swedish Armada totals over 600K on all-original engines and transmissions.
1986 244DL, 205K... 1987 244DL, >220K ... 1988 744GLE, 191K
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Rob Bareiss, New London, CT 86 244, 87 244, 88 744
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