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Maintenance and repair cost

posted by  someone claiming to be bill d cat on  Tue Dec 3 14:31 CST 2002 [RELATED]

Consumer Reports actually studied this, for details it's in the August 2000 issue, two of the cars they studied were the 1992 Volvo 740 and the Mercedes 300E. While SOME common repairs might be cheaper for the Mercedes.... water pump: $170-Volvo, $420-Mercedes, transmission: $2459-Volvo $3600-Mercedes, engine/short block: $4820-Volvo, $6610-Mercedes. Plus the $5000 price differential between a 1992 Volvo and a 1992 Mercedes will pay for an awful lot of repairs. The Volvo costs seem a little worse than for the '92 Camry and Accord that they also studied.

the only maintainance issue that is exclusive to the Volvo is the timing belt, now replaced at 105,000 while the BMW and Mercedes use timing chains. Also Volvo asks for more frequent oil changes. I'll believe it when I see the first 300,000 mile BMW still on the original motor that's had 15,000 mile oil changes.

If you're referring to new cars, well, I think all maintainance is included definitely with the BMW and maybe the Mercedes for the first four years, not so with a new Volvo.....

-bill d cat






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