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If you wind up buying it, you could do a lot of damage very quickly by just casually cranking it up.
If the body and interior are really great, I'd offer him $1500 or even less and explain why so little:
Because I'd have to tow it (on a carrier truck, with all wheels off the ground) to a Volvo shop and have every fluid in it flushed and changed before I even thought about starting it.
There have been posts recently in other threads about flushing out old gas from the tank and the lines and the fuel rail and the pressure regulator (*and the pump--suppose gas has gelled in the pump?*). Got to have a shop that knows how to go about untangling all this on a 240.
Engine oil (a little oil in the cylinders, crank it w/o fuel, get the oil pressure up...see other threads on this)
Brake fluid (caliper seals and master cylinder may croak pretty soon)
power steering
coolant
transmission
Belts and hoses (including the heater hoses at the rear of the block)
repack wheel bearings (including the rear axle bearings)
inject fresh grease in the ball joint and tie rod end boots
Lube the u-joints if they have fittings
Timing belt and front seal (and rear seal unless you're real lucky, and maybe axle seals and pinion seal too)
The cassette drive may be dead. The speakers may be rotted. The ECU and ICU may have issues from corrosion. Rusted gas tank from condensation. Mice nesting in the engine compartment chewing on the wiring?
All the suspension bushings and the motor mounts will probably cave in pretty soon. Shock absorber/strut piston seals.
This car has been sitting in one spot for five years, right? Don't even try to drive it on those tires. They might bang in the first five miles.
You won't know until you start troubleshooting how many bad electrical connections it's developed--but there are going to be some.
So many things to deal with. Sitting in the rain for years is death to a car. Pull back the carpet at the rockers, pop the inspection caps--if it's been parked near trees, lots of junk could have washed into the cowl vent and anything big winds up in the rockers where it holds water and rots them out from the inside.
The price has to be worth it or it's not worth it, see?
Good luck (really)
Doug Harvey
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