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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: any hard data on saab/volvo reliability/low maintenance cost?
Message-ID: <854@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 18:29:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 18:29:47 1985
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Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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Our 1982 Volvo Turbo Wagon has been quite expensive to keep going.
The car has 46k miles on it and so far we have lost:

1. Main oil seals.
2. Water pump.
3. Rear window shattered (went off like a gunshot when I had the demister
   on in a cold drizzling rain)
4. Electrical gremlins. (blows the power window fuse occasionally)
5. Overdrive relay ($45 part)
6. Tailgate bits keep loosening.  (both the rear window wiper and the
   whole bloody lock mechnaism)
7. Some bozo bent our power antenna ($70part + $30 installation)
8. Oil change + filter every 3750 miles or so.

Cost of repairs seems to be quite high, but our dealership is total
yuppie.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					AT&T Information Systems
					Laboratories, Holmdel
					(201) 834-3759
					ariel!jlw