Word 2 your muthaz RR crew, I R sellin my ride y0
Deets:
1988 F-reg Volvo 760 TD automatic
Mileage: 150,000
MOT: FULL 12 MONTHS JUST PASSED
Tax: none as per the law
Location: Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 or Uttoxeter, Staffs DE6
Price: £1300, I am up for a certain amount of bartering though with anyone who bothers coming to see it
Contact details: tel O78OO 9O2396 or PM me or email Richardrose825 'at' hotmail DOT COM
I am putting my Volvo up for sale due to having too many cars (18 at the last count) and not enough money. Its a great car and I have been using it daily for the last year. Its got a 2.4 Volkswagen straight-six intercooled turbodiesel engine and 4-speed autobox. I have done 18,000 miles in a year with no problems at all including 2 separate missions towing a loaded car trailer back from France, its really a very trustworthy machine. I bought it off a couple whose family it had been in since new, they were both doctors/professors and lived in a leafy london suburb, it had had a very comfortable life. They decided to finally sell it when it failed the MOT on some welding. I got it quite cheap cos i had no idea what the welding was like, turned out it was not catastrophic at all (just a bit on the front footwells, all chopped out and repaired properly now) so I soon had it back on the road. Its very healthy, theres a bit of a knack to driving it smoothly due to the power delivery and gearbox change points but thats one of the pleasures of driving it. The engine sounds fantastic (if you like the sound of lorry engines), and the gearbox has a lock-up feature above 60mph so its flippin brilliant on the motorway. The box isn't as smooth as a modern Lexus effort but its perfectly decent TBH. It will cruise at 100mph if you want with barely any wind noise and I get 35mpg regardless of how or where I am driving it. It has a JVC CD player which sounds unexpectedly good, I don't know what speaker set-up is fitted but it sounds great. The previous owners did have an expensive (back in the day) Sony CD changer and this JVC thing fitted, they may have had the speakers upgraded too. I got rid of the changer though as it was connected up to play through the FM radio and sounded curse word.
It just passed the MOT the other day, going through first time with no advisories. While I have had it the folllowing jobs have been done:
New cam belt
Alloys blasted and powder-coated
Headlining re-upholstered
new propshaft centre bearing
Other little bits and bobs which i can't remember, nowt mega though
The rear independent suspension was completely rebuilt about a year before I got it at eye-watering expense in a Volvo main dealer!!!! Something like £2000 I think it cost. I have a big folder full of bills and MOT's and stuff, I havent studied it all. Anyway it drives great, super smooth. All the electrics work, including the full instrument binnacle, excluding the bits I mention below.
ON the downside, there are a couple of minor bits. I retrimmed the headlining and it looks great, even if I say so myself. I didn't re-do the bit on the sunroof panel though so that lets the side down a bit. The electric sunroof doesnt work as the little internal gearbox is seized up on it. A new motor will sort that though. I used to carry an electric drill with a flathead scrwedriver bit and open the roof with that!!! The mechanism is all good, just the motor.
Drivers heated seat does not work
Slight rust on one rear arch (pictured), its not rotten but needs cleaned up and r-painted
tiny dent on bottom of drivers door (pictured)
Lacquer on rear wings looks a bit odd from some angles (see pez cap picture)
Front tyres are 195/60 section when they should be 195/65 (I bought the wrong ones off the internet like a d1ck), they're new though and not Hoo Flung Dung chinese liquorice efforts so i just boshed them on anyway.
Thats it really - I don't like to give the hard sell but this really is a superb daily driver, the diesel engine and auto box combo make it acceptably economical and very easy to drive and perfectly capable of high-mileage daily use. Its very comfortable and I have had several folk at Rolls-Royce where i work come up and say what a cool motor it is, its certainly got a good 80's vibe going on amongst all the modern blobs in the car park. If you want a hassle-free but stylish and practical old car to get around in I don't think you could do much better.
Tat blog readers with good memories will know that I paid a lot less than £1300 for this, so to pre-empt any pound-shop communists going off on one I must point out that I did take a gamble on its rustiness and it turned out better than I had expected. Plus i am selling it as a ready-to-go car not a 'do-er upper' which is how I bought it. If you want to buy it but think its too expensive, come and see it and we can 'talk turkey' or chicken or vegetables or whatever you like. Cheers!!!
Deets:
1988 F-reg Volvo 760 TD automatic
Mileage: 150,000
MOT: FULL 12 MONTHS JUST PASSED
Tax: none as per the law
Location: Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 or Uttoxeter, Staffs DE6
Price: £1300, I am up for a certain amount of bartering though with anyone who bothers coming to see it
Contact details: tel O78OO 9O2396 or PM me or email Richardrose825 'at' hotmail DOT COM
I am putting my Volvo up for sale due to having too many cars (18 at the last count) and not enough money. Its a great car and I have been using it daily for the last year. Its got a 2.4 Volkswagen straight-six intercooled turbodiesel engine and 4-speed autobox. I have done 18,000 miles in a year with no problems at all including 2 separate missions towing a loaded car trailer back from France, its really a very trustworthy machine. I bought it off a couple whose family it had been in since new, they were both doctors/professors and lived in a leafy london suburb, it had had a very comfortable life. They decided to finally sell it when it failed the MOT on some welding. I got it quite cheap cos i had no idea what the welding was like, turned out it was not catastrophic at all (just a bit on the front footwells, all chopped out and repaired properly now) so I soon had it back on the road. Its very healthy, theres a bit of a knack to driving it smoothly due to the power delivery and gearbox change points but thats one of the pleasures of driving it. The engine sounds fantastic (if you like the sound of lorry engines), and the gearbox has a lock-up feature above 60mph so its flippin brilliant on the motorway. The box isn't as smooth as a modern Lexus effort but its perfectly decent TBH. It will cruise at 100mph if you want with barely any wind noise and I get 35mpg regardless of how or where I am driving it. It has a JVC CD player which sounds unexpectedly good, I don't know what speaker set-up is fitted but it sounds great. The previous owners did have an expensive (back in the day) Sony CD changer and this JVC thing fitted, they may have had the speakers upgraded too. I got rid of the changer though as it was connected up to play through the FM radio and sounded curse word.
It just passed the MOT the other day, going through first time with no advisories. While I have had it the folllowing jobs have been done:
New cam belt
Alloys blasted and powder-coated
Headlining re-upholstered
new propshaft centre bearing
Other little bits and bobs which i can't remember, nowt mega though
The rear independent suspension was completely rebuilt about a year before I got it at eye-watering expense in a Volvo main dealer!!!! Something like £2000 I think it cost. I have a big folder full of bills and MOT's and stuff, I havent studied it all. Anyway it drives great, super smooth. All the electrics work, including the full instrument binnacle, excluding the bits I mention below.
ON the downside, there are a couple of minor bits. I retrimmed the headlining and it looks great, even if I say so myself. I didn't re-do the bit on the sunroof panel though so that lets the side down a bit. The electric sunroof doesnt work as the little internal gearbox is seized up on it. A new motor will sort that though. I used to carry an electric drill with a flathead scrwedriver bit and open the roof with that!!! The mechanism is all good, just the motor.
Drivers heated seat does not work
Slight rust on one rear arch (pictured), its not rotten but needs cleaned up and r-painted
tiny dent on bottom of drivers door (pictured)
Lacquer on rear wings looks a bit odd from some angles (see pez cap picture)
Front tyres are 195/60 section when they should be 195/65 (I bought the wrong ones off the internet like a d1ck), they're new though and not Hoo Flung Dung chinese liquorice efforts so i just boshed them on anyway.
Thats it really - I don't like to give the hard sell but this really is a superb daily driver, the diesel engine and auto box combo make it acceptably economical and very easy to drive and perfectly capable of high-mileage daily use. Its very comfortable and I have had several folk at Rolls-Royce where i work come up and say what a cool motor it is, its certainly got a good 80's vibe going on amongst all the modern blobs in the car park. If you want a hassle-free but stylish and practical old car to get around in I don't think you could do much better.
Tat blog readers with good memories will know that I paid a lot less than £1300 for this, so to pre-empt any pound-shop communists going off on one I must point out that I did take a gamble on its rustiness and it turned out better than I had expected. Plus i am selling it as a ready-to-go car not a 'do-er upper' which is how I bought it. If you want to buy it but think its too expensive, come and see it and we can 'talk turkey' or chicken or vegetables or whatever you like. Cheers!!!
