A Volvo XC70 with 211,000 miles. High miles, low price - big bargain?
Shed reckons he can feel it in his beard when a well looked after car hoves into view. His whiskers are twitching positively on this week's offering, a Volvo XC70 Cross Country, despite the medium-sized elephant in the room of a 200k-plus mileage.
Well, for some buyers the answer might depend on how much care the previous owners had given to the cars in question. You could look at the service histories, if there are any. These are useful documents but they don't tell the whole story. They don't tell you about the hours that an owner might have put in on deep-field preventative maintenance. That was very much a thing when Shed were a lad.
Talking of cleaning, another vivid schoolboy memory for Shed was earning a bit of pocket money by buffing up the local nob's white Volvo 145 estate. It was the poshest car Shed had ever seen, much more solid than the family Viva which, despite his dad's diligent efforts, fell apart with sill rust., a 2003 first-year Cross Country variant of the gen-two V70. The time that Shed spent in the 145 in the mid-1960s has given him a certain fondness for big old Volvos.
Sorry, but for some reason we appear to have run out of time. Some quick points before Shed slopes off for a few pints. This XC70 has the 2.4 D5 diesel, which is a fine lump of engineering. You might get some oil leaking out of it, the ABS might conk out, and you'll almost certainly need to throw some money into the front suspension and engine mounting departments at some point, but in fact the number of common XC70 faults is pretty small.
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