1989 Volvo

Volvo 240 GLT manual (Agneta) for sale

11 months MoT.

Tax until end of August

Part service history (the most recent 70-odd k)

Non smoker's car

Grey metallic

Leather Seats (Chesterfield style with buttons)

Electric front and rear windows

Heated Front Seats

Electric mirrors

Sunroof (or moonroof as I think Volvo used to call them)

Central Locking

Full service history below, but in the last 5k miles, it’s had:

New Discs and pads all round

Coolant change

Clutch fluid change

Clutch master cylinder rebuilt

Clutch Slave cylinder rebuilt

Clutch

Brake fluid change

Tyres (Michelin Energy front 4-5mm, Conti Eco Contact rear 6mm)

New front dampers (Volvo)

New inner and outer track rods

New wiper motor

I bought the car in 2012. It had been owned by a retired gent in 2007, who’d bought it as a classic project, but had hardly used it except going to the MoT station, though he’d been slowly titivating it and improving it. I put the car back on the road shortly after buying it and have continued to improve it to where it is today.

The car drives very well, the engine pulls strongly (Volvo advertised it in the day as being tuned for mid range power, which sounds like marketing bollocks, but when you drive it, you can see what they mean – it clips along at a reasonable pace without ever getting flustered or needing to be thrashed). Nice gearshift and powerful brakes (standard 4-pot fronts and 2-pot rears) with loads of feel. The ride is comfy and controlled with the new (Volvo) dampers and it handles surprisingly well – very much not boat like as you might expect– it’s actually quite direct steering. Overall the car is very solid and clean with surprisingly little corrosion. Everything works with the exception of the radio, which occasionally buzzed into life as you turn it on, but mostly stayed silent (luckily it’s a nice quiet car and doesn’t need the radio to drown out the engine/road noise). Last night, however it worked for my whole journey home, playing my Dire Straits Money for Nothing tape at 90% speed, which is nice and relaxing and gives you more time to perfect your air drums/guitar. This evening, the radio function even worked, so perhaps it's doing that rarest of things and fixing itself!

The early history for this car is unfortunately missing (no original service book), but the good point is that the recent history/ invoices are all present and correct

2007-2012

Various invoices for MoT work

03/14 173900 miles

Oil Service

Air filter

New front dampers (Volvo) - converted to later twin tube type with spacer

Inner and outer track rods (Delphi)

08/13 173600 miles

New wiper motor

01/13 173400 miles

New battery

Clutch slave cylinder rebuild

Clutch fluid and brake fluid replaced

The mileage has barely changed during this time when it was owned by the previous keeper - the MoT history was as follows

The car came to me freshly serviced and with new brakes

12/01/2013 173370 miles (this is 2 months after I bought it)

23/11/2010 173344 miles (previous owner)

17/03/2008 173303 miles (previous owner)

24/11/2006 169349 miles

11/06 167237 miles

New clutch

New rear pads

New front pads

New rear axle bushes x 4

05/06 162095 miles

Replace both heater hoses

New front exhaust section

10/05 156895 miles

Fuse box terminals cleaned

10/05 156614 miles

Rewire horns

42k service

07/05 153064 miles

36k service

Spark plugs/air filter /coolant etc

and oil

04/05 149818 miles

New wiper cables

01/05 147753 miles

Strip and clean breather system

12/04 144261 miles

OSF lower ball joint

Electrical remedies

Windscreen leak fixed

07/04 142151 miles

Front brake pads

Headlight switch

03/04 138600 miles

Oil and filter

Fuel filter

09/03 133488 miles

New ignition leads

06/03 130538 miles

Cylinder head gasket

Timing Belt

Radiator

10/02 123387 miles

Front pads

Oil service

Air filter

New front calipers

Brake fluid

09/02 122997 miles

All brakes stripped and inspected (leading to above)

01/02 120096 miles

Ignition leads, dizzy cap, spark plugs

12/01 119866 miles

N/S headlamp reflector

wiper

Clutch

Clutch slave cylinder

10/00 113982 miles

Oil service

Front and rear pads

Fan belts

Throttle body cleaned

04/00 103635 miles

New water pump

Oil service

Spark plug

fog lamp kit

wipers

The downsides

While the car is very solid overall, the arches do have some rust coming through on the undersides on the rear and there are obviously a few age related scratches here and there (particularly on the boot), but she polishes up well.

The driver’s seat has split along the sewing line - it just needs the cover taking off and re-sewing from the back, but should I attempt it, I fear it won’t look quite the same as it should (+ my mum lives too far away to give it to her to do – in any case she’d probably give me a hiding and tell me to sew my own seats) and there’s an old school mobile phone holder glued to the dash top pocket (handy though)

Price: 995 ONO

Viewing is welcome and test drive with proof of insurance. Just normal people interested in Volvo 240s please (unless that’s an oxymoron?), no scammers, no sales agencies, I’m afraid I won’t deliver it to Southampton docks, accept Money Union transfers + I don’t care if you’re an African Prince, who’s fallen from grace, but who wants to pay me $2.5 million Ugandan dollars for the Volvo so he can arrive back home in style and claim his throne.