deadken
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- Long Island, NY
My neighbor down the block has a 2000 V70 GLT SE that has been sitting in the driveway for as long as I can remember. I finally saw someone outside the house today so I asked about it and it is his brother-in-laws car. As it ends up, his brother-in-law is on dialysis and has been good friends with my older brother for decades. The story I got is this:
The car hasn't been used for at least 3 years (I noticed that the registration expired in 2017)
Everything was good with the car, EXCEPT the power steering is 'bad'
He originally wanted $3k for the car
As time went on, he came down to $2,500
The last guy who wanted to buy the haggled down to and agreed upon price of $2,000
After getting down to $2k, the prospective buyer asked for another $600 discount to cover the costs of repairing the power steering to which the seller declined and told him to get lost.
The guy in front of the house knows my brother and his brother-in-law are good friends and suggested that I *might* be able to buy the car for $1,500.
I took a peek under the hood and I did notice some coolant coming out from between the upper radiator hose and the rather pitted aluminum housing. The power steering reservoir seemed rather low / empty. The dipstick T handle was broken off and a sheet metal screw driven into the remaining piece of plastic (apparently to work as a handle). The body seemed in rather good shape, one tire was rather low. I'm guessing it'll need the fluids changed, it'll likely need a battery, some brake work and some exhaust work to get it back up to snuff.
Now, I've only owned one car (a VW Passat) that was was newer than 1998 and truth be told, it was a nice car but also way more complicated than it need to be, so I'm skeptical of jumping in. I don't know what the mileage is as the battery is dead (digital display).
If I remember correctly, I read about some cars of this era needing ABS modules to be reflashed. Was this one of those cars?
What typically fails on these S/V 70's?
I can't find similar cars for sale in my area, so I'm not sure what the value of a car like this is. I'm sure knowing the mileage will help, but KBB.com shows it to be around $1,400 - $2,500 with typical mileage.
I'm thinking perhaps it'll be a reasonably fun, safe, reliable car that'll be a decent driver for a while. Perhaps years down the road it'll make a nice whiteblock & rim donor for one of my other Volvo's?
This isn't the car, but it is the same color and has the same rims (no headlight wipers IIRC):
The car hasn't been used for at least 3 years (I noticed that the registration expired in 2017)
Everything was good with the car, EXCEPT the power steering is 'bad'
He originally wanted $3k for the car
As time went on, he came down to $2,500
The last guy who wanted to buy the haggled down to and agreed upon price of $2,000
After getting down to $2k, the prospective buyer asked for another $600 discount to cover the costs of repairing the power steering to which the seller declined and told him to get lost.
The guy in front of the house knows my brother and his brother-in-law are good friends and suggested that I *might* be able to buy the car for $1,500.
I took a peek under the hood and I did notice some coolant coming out from between the upper radiator hose and the rather pitted aluminum housing. The power steering reservoir seemed rather low / empty. The dipstick T handle was broken off and a sheet metal screw driven into the remaining piece of plastic (apparently to work as a handle). The body seemed in rather good shape, one tire was rather low. I'm guessing it'll need the fluids changed, it'll likely need a battery, some brake work and some exhaust work to get it back up to snuff.
Now, I've only owned one car (a VW Passat) that was was newer than 1998 and truth be told, it was a nice car but also way more complicated than it need to be, so I'm skeptical of jumping in. I don't know what the mileage is as the battery is dead (digital display).
If I remember correctly, I read about some cars of this era needing ABS modules to be reflashed. Was this one of those cars?
What typically fails on these S/V 70's?
I can't find similar cars for sale in my area, so I'm not sure what the value of a car like this is. I'm sure knowing the mileage will help, but KBB.com shows it to be around $1,400 - $2,500 with typical mileage.
I'm thinking perhaps it'll be a reasonably fun, safe, reliable car that'll be a decent driver for a while. Perhaps years down the road it'll make a nice whiteblock & rim donor for one of my other Volvo's?
This isn't the car, but it is the same color and has the same rims (no headlight wipers IIRC):