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overdrive 200 1987

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posted by  lucid on  Tue Jun 21 07:20 CST 2005
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Glen,
Fair enough—you seem to have had more than your share of problems with what you admit to be older cars. My objection was to: "The existing system was unreliable when new,...". I just don't think anything in your experience supports that statement. You don't know how those cars performed for their first 13 to 17 years.

My point was to insert a dissenting opinion for any newbies to consider.

There are no 100% agelessly reliable cars that I know of. IMO, Volvo did pretty well with the 200 series. (Compare the # of '80s Saabs to '80s Volvos in the boneyard sometime.)

As for the possibility of (the controls?) being "an hasty effort to adapt a three-speed tranny to four-speed operation.", I believe the AW70/71 were built as 3-speeds with internal hydraulic overdrive (4th speed) by Aisin-Warner. Volvo had to implement the required controls, which admittedly will show problems with age. But "unreliable when new"? Over the top, IMO.
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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.






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