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"Providing you service the engine and maintain it properly there is no reason it will not do 300K with all of the original equipment. Again, not some internet myth, I've seen it time and time again and have numerous examples on the road of vehicles that I have personally serviced from the day they rolled off of the truck. I am not sure what you are basing your experience on but I base mine on just that, real world experience. "
so are mine...we have owned MANY volvo's and the only ones to get past 250k were b21's...
"I did not build the thing I just have to service them and pick up the pieces when they scatter. You may want to believe that the head is the only difference but you are woefully mistaken. Let me ask you this, when was the last time the bolt for your oil pump pulley sheared off and scattered your B230 motor?"
never....and they cant have been very well serviced if they were in peices..that says the timing belt went...and yess i have EXTENSIVE experience of OHC interference engiens with excess of 200k on them...
"Let me see, you just spent in the area of $1500.00 changing out all of the tensioners, engine seals, and resealing the cam carrier on your oil leaking pig of an engine" verse new turbo's, front seals, oil coolers (you would think they would havethought of the galvanic corrosion...)
the POINT here is lets not make the b230 a mythical engine it simply ISNT..but peopel do fixz them...there seems to be an undue fear of the b234..people panic about interference engines..then talk about how good japanese engiens are...almost all of which are interfernece...
BTW be very carefull on quoting cambelt and oil change intervals...ite depends on teritory for hte same car (why??), eg i nthe uk a b230ft oil change is 6k. a 5254 is 12k on the oil and 80 k or 8 years on the belts...and if your charge 1500 for it you were well and truly ripped...
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