Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Gulp.....HOW MUCH???

[keith888]

Speaking from experience, Volvos are not that reliable and the dealers are expensive! BUT our 13 year old 940 turbo has now done 150,000 miles and still mostly still drives like a car only a few years old (even the air con still works). Parts are fairly cheap via eBay and via Motor Factors and when you dismantle Volvos they go back together again without things breaking. You're handy with the spanners so why not go the DIY route? New disks all round and pads should be only £50-£100 and an hour or two to fit. Power steering pump only slightly more. All the money you save can then be poured into the 888!!

Keith

[Ray]

Wouldn't trust some car dealers any further than I could throw them. It's a regular occurence to get a job list as long as yer arm when a car has gone in for attention.

They look at you as if you are some kind of loon when you decline their kind offer to fix all yer car's faults, or are crazy enough to tell em that you are more than capable of undoing a few bolts to fit yer own discs or that you are quite happy to take the car away with its worn out sliding spline sproggle gromits

I'd guess main dealer rates are around £100 and hour for Volvo if you include the VAT.

I've not see a power steering pump itself leak, more often than not its the pipes that have rotted or fractured.

The other way of looking at it though is that you should have year of trouble free motoring, some cars lose £1500 or more a month in depreciation

Ray.