Niles
Wednesday 21st October 2009, 10:12
Hi All who read, here's the story....
As some may know my last 850 had a big miss fire & as a result bent the one of the con rods. As much as I like auto boxes I was getting tired of the car changing gears as & when it wanted to & particularly in corners shifting down & me having to 'kick down' to dring it back to 'life'. So after much thinking of what route to take to stay amongst the Volvo world I thought best way forward was to search for a nice 850 & transplant all of my go faster & decorative goodies. The Hunt started on ebay & 1 caught my eye, full history, 131k miles & manual. Contacted the seller 7 WOW the car was 360 miles away in Newcastle!!!! Is it really worth the effort? Lets be brave & take a chance. I won the car for what was a risky £510 if the car was a pile off poo!!!!
Monday 11.30pm, Snoop69 and I head north from Dover Kent in his trusty V70, no rush, lets be economical & take no risks on such a long journey, both agreeing that the pair of us must have more than 1 screw loose to do this!!! After much plodding & being tired we get to Newcastle at 7am & have a little kip as the seller was not due to meet us at her work until 9am.
9am....here comes the car!! Looking nice. After a quick check over I'm happy but the drive home will really tell, hand over the cash & head to a petrol station (is it just me that every time i buy a car the seller flogs it when it's running on fumes?)
Upon getting home VERY tired (and so was Snoop) the car really behaved absolutely perfectly!! I can't stress how 'straight' & honest the car is, totally standard & unmolested in any way, however, plain to see it's well looked after.
The seller listed the cars faults as being.... Glove box broken, oil leak, paint stain in boot & the bumper corners are all scratched (aren't they all eh?). After a further look around & a drive of 360miles home I must agree!! That was all!! (plonked in my Rica 304 ECU and got an average of 34.8mpg on the homeward journey). We got home at 6pm Tuesday evening. 18 hours mission!!
Wednesday morning, the glovebox is now fully repaired & my 'painter' mate is queued up to repaint my old bumpers as they are 'scrape free', the oil leak WAS due for investigation if/when the bl00dy rain stops and so was the swap of seats to my black leather ones!!! Quicky looky says the oil leak is the turbo return or 1 of the main oil cooler pipes. We'll see later.
Here's a couple of pics & how cool is the number plate? :B_thumb:
Roof rails going, wheels being swapped for my Tethys, massive list of things to do to bring it up to my last cars spec but I've got all the bits & its a case of time & opportunity. lucky me, the car to me is worth EVEY penny of the price paid, effort & petrol money. Hope you all approve!!!
An unbelievably massive, huge thank you to Snoop69!!!!
BTW Volvo states the car as Green!!!!???
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0003.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0005.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0004.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0001.jpg
As some may know my last 850 had a big miss fire & as a result bent the one of the con rods. As much as I like auto boxes I was getting tired of the car changing gears as & when it wanted to & particularly in corners shifting down & me having to 'kick down' to dring it back to 'life'. So after much thinking of what route to take to stay amongst the Volvo world I thought best way forward was to search for a nice 850 & transplant all of my go faster & decorative goodies. The Hunt started on ebay & 1 caught my eye, full history, 131k miles & manual. Contacted the seller 7 WOW the car was 360 miles away in Newcastle!!!! Is it really worth the effort? Lets be brave & take a chance. I won the car for what was a risky £510 if the car was a pile off poo!!!!
Monday 11.30pm, Snoop69 and I head north from Dover Kent in his trusty V70, no rush, lets be economical & take no risks on such a long journey, both agreeing that the pair of us must have more than 1 screw loose to do this!!! After much plodding & being tired we get to Newcastle at 7am & have a little kip as the seller was not due to meet us at her work until 9am.
9am....here comes the car!! Looking nice. After a quick check over I'm happy but the drive home will really tell, hand over the cash & head to a petrol station (is it just me that every time i buy a car the seller flogs it when it's running on fumes?)
Upon getting home VERY tired (and so was Snoop) the car really behaved absolutely perfectly!! I can't stress how 'straight' & honest the car is, totally standard & unmolested in any way, however, plain to see it's well looked after.
The seller listed the cars faults as being.... Glove box broken, oil leak, paint stain in boot & the bumper corners are all scratched (aren't they all eh?). After a further look around & a drive of 360miles home I must agree!! That was all!! (plonked in my Rica 304 ECU and got an average of 34.8mpg on the homeward journey). We got home at 6pm Tuesday evening. 18 hours mission!!
Wednesday morning, the glovebox is now fully repaired & my 'painter' mate is queued up to repaint my old bumpers as they are 'scrape free', the oil leak WAS due for investigation if/when the bl00dy rain stops and so was the swap of seats to my black leather ones!!! Quicky looky says the oil leak is the turbo return or 1 of the main oil cooler pipes. We'll see later.
Here's a couple of pics & how cool is the number plate? :B_thumb:
Roof rails going, wheels being swapped for my Tethys, massive list of things to do to bring it up to my last cars spec but I've got all the bits & its a case of time & opportunity. lucky me, the car to me is worth EVEY penny of the price paid, effort & petrol money. Hope you all approve!!!
An unbelievably massive, huge thank you to Snoop69!!!!
BTW Volvo states the car as Green!!!!???
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0003.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0005.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0004.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/camelbeanie/2009_0907p850tfu0001.jpg