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850 a reliable car?

posted by  nh on  Tue May 10 08:18 CST 2005
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This is based on my 97 850, which currently has 207K miles.

Q1: yes, mine has been.
Q2: yes, more complex and engine compartment is much more tightly packed. That is, there's always more disassembly to get access to what you need to do. You would probably want a OBD reader.
Q3: don't know
Q4: yes, in my experience.
Q5: don't know, but my guess would be no, not simply because of the turbo. Would a turbo car be likely to have been driven more aggressively though?

From what I've read it's worthwhile to find one closer to 97 than to earlier years.

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