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[Roger Woods]

Bought a couple of weeks back!

[Majorslow]

Has anyone else seen an old beigie....yellowie 240 that has been slammed down?

The car is in the Salisbury area as I have had a contract up there and twice i have had it pull out onto the A36 a couple of cars in front of me.

Sadly no chance of taking a photo of it. But it looks radical, with a young lad driving it.

[Mezzanine]

RicksAlfas said:

My first Volvo. V60 Cross Country B5.

Lovely.

Perfect one car solution.

[chris1roll]

Took this old lady for a trip round Wales at the end of August.
This was taken at the bottom of the Devils staircase on the Abergwesyn pass.



Averaged 26 mpg too!

[Faust66]

Another silver XC70.... 2.4 D5, manual, black leather, heated seats, 4CS dampers, ice cold air con. etc.

Bought her back in July as I wanted a long distance cruiser for hiking trips (been to Cornwall, Scotland and numerous trips into the peak district - Nottinghamshire based).

Returns about 50mpg on a run at a steady 70. Lot of car for 2 grand!

I've replaced the lower front engine mounts, upper engine mount, front discs, pads and calipers, auxiliary belt & tensioner, dropped the oil and had the cambelt & waterpump changed (paid for this as I was busy). Also had 4 Michelin Cross Climate 2s fitted.

Edited by Faust66 on Wednesday 26th October 19:21

[mikeiow]

chris1roll said:

Took this old lady for a trip round Wales at the end of August.
This was taken at the bottom of the Devils staircase on the Abergwesyn pass.



Averaged 26 mpg too!

I took our Kona EV around that area soon after we got it, over 3 years ago. I recall getting over 2 miles in regen going down that staircase - still a PB !!

[RicksAlfas]

Mezzanine said:

RicksAlfas said:

My first Volvo. V60 Cross Country B5.

Lovely.

Perfect one car solution.

Thanks. I'm enjoying it. It's currently covered in mud and leaves from a trip to the Peak District where it was perfect for floods, muddy verges, bumpy carparks and the like. I've fitted a set of Cross Climate tyres ready for the winter.

[Mezzanine]

RicksAlfas said:

Mezzanine said:

RicksAlfas said:

My first Volvo. V60 Cross Country B5.

Lovely.

Perfect one car solution.

Thanks. I'm enjoying it. It's currently covered in mud and leaves from a trip to the Peak District where it was perfect for floods, muddy verges, bumpy carparks and the like. I've fitted a set of Cross Climate tyres ready for the winter.

As it should be. Hope you don’t wash it too soon

[Turkish91]

My new purchase. T5 AWD & it’s manual! Rare as rocking horse poo!

[Davie]

That is rare!

In fact, I'll be honest... I didn't even know such a thing existed with T-5 power. So in essence, it's a V70R without the party dress and shiny shoes.

Be interesting to see how you get on with it. I've just acquired a V70R AWD much to my wife's disgust but it's missing the prop which hints at issues within, but the lack of AWD specific parts scares me so debating putting a 2wd back end on it.

But that's a mothballed project for another day!

[RobBMW]

Here is my V70 D5.
Just going up for sale at jst less than 199k.
It's served me really well the last 100k miles but ive decided to part with it but here's one of my final images of her

[Turkish91]

Fitted a new bonnet and gave the new one a wash. Looking much better now!

[Davie]

I'm going to have to retract my previous bewilderment and borderline handing back of my Volvo Anoraks membership card as I was right in thinking "Wait, what... a T5 AWD?" as that isn't a T-5, it's a 2.4 LPT so ~190bhp which isn't to be sniffed at and still properly rare and it will be pretty handy with the AWD (if it works) but it's not a T-5. Kept me awake for several nights did that...

Caveat being: "Unless it's had a sneaky engine change..."

[Turkish91]

Davie said:

I'm going to have to retract my previous bewilderment and borderline handing back of my Volvo Anoraks membership card as I was right in thinking "Wait, what... a T5 AWD?" as that isn't a T-5, it's a 2.4 LPT so ~190bhp which isn't to be sniffed at and still properly rare and it will be pretty handy with the AWD (if it works) but it's not a T-5. Kept me awake for several nights did that...

Caveat being: "Unless it's had a sneaky engine change..."

Yeah I meant to say I did learn this after I’d posted. Still a turbo 5cyl so in my eyes it was a T5 but yes, it’s actually a LPT

[Gavarnie]

Bought this one new 20 years ago after looking at various options (including Alfa 156 V6). Petrol automatic. Regular light use, just over 70,000 miles now and serviced annually (at Volvo until quite recently). Innumerable school runs over the years but also some longer journeys including a few trips down to the Alps. Never garaged, no rust that I can see - but it has suffered at the hands of drivers swiping it while it's parked on the street. Still on its original exhaust system, which seems astonishing given that when I started driving cars seemed to need new exhausts every 4 or 5 years.

Here it is on the day I picked it up in September 2002. You can't see him in the photo but my son was sitting in his car-seat in the back (he graduated from uni last week).




Worth peanuts now but still a very good, comfortable, reliable car - always much under-rated, I think. Better seats, stereo and brakes than the E46 BMW I bought a couple of years ago to replace it.

[wiliferus]

Turkish91 said:

Davie said:

I'm going to have to retract my previous bewilderment and borderline handing back of my Volvo Anoraks membership card as I was right in thinking "Wait, what... a T5 AWD?" as that isn't a T-5, it's a 2.4 LPT so ~190bhp which isn't to be sniffed at and still properly rare and it will be pretty handy with the AWD (if it works) but it's not a T-5. Kept me awake for several nights did that...

Caveat being: "Unless it's had a sneaky engine change..."

Yeah I meant to say I did learn this after I’d posted. Still a turbo 5cyl so in my eyes it was a T5 but yes, it’s actually a LPT

Should be a cracking drive. Had a standard LPT and the low down torque was lovely. In fact, for a period one of the front abs sensors was borked so the TC didn’t work. That cars ability to wheel spin was frankly hilarious.
With AWD I can see that being quite an entertaining drive. I have a D5 AWD manual and that’s a competent bit of kit, the LPT would just add to the smiles.
That said, the MPG should be tragic

[Mezzanine]

Gavarnie said:

Bought this one new 20 years ago after looking at various options (including Alfa 156 V6). Petrol automatic. Regular light use, just over 70,000 miles now and serviced annually (at Volvo until quite recently). Innumerable school runs over the years but also some longer journeys including a few trips down to the Alps. Never garaged, no rust that I can see - but it has suffered at the hands of drivers swiping it while it's parked on the street. Still on its original exhaust system, which seems astonishing given that when I started driving cars seemed to need new exhausts every 4 or 5 years.

Here it is on the day I picked it up in September 2002. You can't see him in the photo but my son was sitting in his car-seat in the back (he graduated from uni last week).




Worth peanuts now but still a very good, comfortable, reliable car - always much under-rated, I think. Better seats, stereo and brakes than the E46 BMW I bought a couple of years ago to replace it.

Great stuff. Always a pleasant change to hear of people who just keep their cars from new rather than changing every few years.

[chris1roll]

wiliferus said:

Turkish91 said:

Davie said:

I'm going to have to retract my previous bewilderment and borderline handing back of my Volvo Anoraks membership card as I was right in thinking "Wait, what... a T5 AWD?" as that isn't a T-5, it's a 2.4 LPT so ~190bhp which isn't to be sniffed at and still properly rare and it will be pretty handy with the AWD (if it works) but it's not a T-5. Kept me awake for several nights did that...

Caveat being: "Unless it's had a sneaky engine change..."

Yeah I meant to say I did learn this after I’d posted. Still a turbo 5cyl so in my eyes it was a T5 but yes, it’s actually a LPT

Should be a cracking drive. Had a standard LPT and the low down torque was lovely. In fact, for a period one of the front abs sensors was borked so the TC didn’t work. That cars ability to wheel spin was frankly hilarious.
With AWD I can see that being quite an entertaining drive. I have a D5 AWD manual and that’s a competent bit of kit, the LPT would just add to the smiles.
That said, the MPG should be tragic

My dad had a manual one back in the mid 2000s.
Lovely car and a great drive but he went through an angle gear and three propshafts before scrapping it and buying a 940.
He did a lot of heavy towing with it which we assume flexed the prop enough to regularly knacker the centre bearing/mounting, which is/was only available as part of a complete prop.

I apparently learned nothing from this experience and we currently own the 2.4lpt p2 V70 XC pictured earlier in the thread above with the same viscous coupling based AWD system, with the added bonus of having the auto box which has proven, as warned, to be made of chocolate

Edited by chris1roll on Friday 25th November 07:37

Edited by chris1roll on Friday 25th November 07:38

[SebastienClement]

My 2002 S60

[Ffordd Ar Gau]

mikeiow said:

chris1roll said:

Took this old lady for a trip round Wales at the end of August.
This was taken at the bottom of the Devils staircase on the Abergwesyn pass.



Averaged 26 mpg too!

I took our Kona EV around that area soon after we got it, over 3 years ago. I recall getting over 2 miles in regen going down that staircase - still a PB !!

The trick is getting back up it as well ! It is one of my local routes and have done it a few times now in my (underpowered ) D2 115 V60, pictured here looking back up the Nant Irfon, and also at the bottom of the pass.





It can get a little busy, weekends and school holidays especially (is there any surprise though?) it is a very nice spot! The road around the Llyn Brianne reservoir (or Llyn y Bryniau - is a much nicer name that actually means something, translating to Lake of the hills, which it is!) is a nice one too, coming from Tregaron: left = Abergwesyn or right = Llyn Brianne. I Usually cross from Tregaron and come out in Llanwrtyd, as this avoids having to back up the Devils Staircase, or go down around the reservoir.

Edited by Ffordd Ar Gau on Tuesday 6th December 18:18