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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: bored bigyin54 on 22 November 2012, 23:22:46
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just got a volvo 440 started . got stuck in a big puddle of water , and killed the engine. good thing i carry a power pack ;D ;D
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Indeed ;)
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Me dad had one of those years ago , it was very reliable but then it was pretty new at the time :)
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Me dad had one of those years ago , it was very reliable but then it was pretty new at the time :)
that is a good car ,she just drowned the motor with water . no car goes with a wet engine ;D ;D ;D
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Me dad had one of those years ago , it was very reliable but then it was pretty new at the time :)
that is a good car ,she just drowned the motor with water . no car goes with a wet engine ;D ;D ;D
Any diesel engine car would, just needs a engine snorkel.
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Me dad had one of those years ago , it was very reliable but then it was pretty new at the time :)
that is a good car ,she just drowned the motor with water . no car goes with a wet engine ;D ;D ;D
Any diesel engine car would, just needs a engine snorkel.
or a woman driver who wont take telling on how to drive through pudles ;D ;D
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I bought an L-plate Volvo 440, 1.8 petrol, about 5yrs ago as a stop-gap whilst my Jeep Cherokee 2.5TD was having all four of it's heads skimmed... >:(
Only paid £150 for the 440 - with 12months MOT, and some tax left. Weren't in bad nick either - no rust, just lots of moss growing out of the window seals. After a weekend's valeting (I'm sad like that), she looked like new.
I got the Jeep back, and gave the Volvo to my father in law. He got 2 years out of it, but then the headgasket went. Turns out the rad was leaking, but he never checked any of the fluid levels (tell-tale spot of anitfreeze on the drive, right over where he parked it before it died).
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Aye there are some bargain motors out there that just need a bit of tlc on them , a lot of cars just dont get the essentials like anti-freeze and oil/filter changes ... cars seem to becoming like throw away items now and easier/cheaper to buy another thats already got full mot and a bit of tax . Quite reliable as long as you dont drive through river's ::) ;D ;D
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440, is that the little "sporty" volvo from the later 80s?
The electrics on those are delicate enough without seeing if it will swim.
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Essentially a Belgian built Renault ::) you can't seriously expect the wiring to be waterproof :P