[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] The newer Volvos are much more expensive to service (like most cars) and definitely less crash worthy in the sense of body repair costs due to more plastic and thin sheet metal. We have Volvo's and Saabs (my kayak car is a 91 Saab 9000), but I'm looking to switch to Subaru. One more note. Once a Volvo or Saab gets to 100K, they get expensive for while. We just put a grand into a new clutch for a 93 Saab 9000 with 120K miles. After you dump a bunch of money into them, then they go another 100K no problem. Best to ditch them early or keep them for 200K+. At 11:39 AM 1/13/2003 -0600, Ron Dunnington wrote: >Having owned 3 Volvo's, ''71 240, '73 265 and ''77 240, my expierience is that >the cost of maintainance on an OLDER Volvo is roughly 4 times what is is on >any other car ....., if you take it to a Volvo Dealer and/or use Volvo factory >parts. ********************************************************* John S. March, MD, MPH Professor and Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke Child and Family Study Center 718 Rutherford Street Durham, NC 27705 919/416-2404 (P); 919/416-2420 (F) Email: jsmarch_at_acpub.duke.edu Website: http://www2.mc.duke.edu/pcaad " At this time I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore whilst a great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me" ---Sir Isaac Newton ********************************************************* *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 13 2003 - 12:41:59 PST
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