Thinking of buying a Volvo Wagon

Hi I live in the northeast of Canada and I am thinking about buying a Volvo wagon A used car dealer near me has the following for sale

1997 850 Wagon 5 Speed manual with 169KM on it nice car but during my brief inpsection the blower motor was gone. This car is not a turbo and has the 20V engine

1997 850 Wagon Turbo automatic Nice Car but has very high k 420,000km on it but appears to be very well looked after

1994 940 Turbo Wagon Automatic 169,000 km on it nice car sunroof tilts but doesnt slide back.

It does snow here and that is a concern are there any special areas to check out particularly for rust. Any ideas opinions suggestions would be appreciated. Any opinions on the higher mileage one like what are high wear items? No matter what car I go with im going to have it checked out by a local volvo specialist.

Thanks in Advance JT

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JT
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So am I, I really miss not having a wagon. Personally, I'd be looking real close at the 940t, but I'm partial to RWD.

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-don

'81 242t '89 744ti

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don hodgdon

Don the 9 series are all RWD. The last of the great days of Volvo. In case you missed some of my posts, I switched from Volvo to BMW when the 850 arrived. I didn't want to work on them. The 2's 7's and 9's are great cars. I have a 740 and a 240. Don't know how many miles because the odometer fails at about 150 miles. But I don't care. I'm a Volvo Master and they are the easiest cars to repair. Go for the 940.

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Rod Gray

Well said that man.

Taff..........

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taff

I live in the UK

I agree withe the previous post that the rear wheel drive Volvos are the best.

I have a 1997 940 Turbo - The best car I have ever owned

Rav

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Reply to
Richard Ravn-Listowski

Easy to say, you don't have to deal with ice & snow like the alpine countries do. RWD is a POS with ice on the road. FWD is much better, of course AWD is even better if affordable.

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Ray Laughton

In article , Ray Laughton wrote: [ ... ]

If the RWD car has a manual transmission and a driver that learns how to drive on slick roads, it'll do just fine.

Automatic transmissions greatly reduce the ability of a driver to handle slick surfaces; coupled with the tendancy of most drivers to treat the accelerator and brake pedals as binary devices, you'll get a loss of control, whether it's RWD or FWD.

Gary

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Gary Heston

Unless it's been damaged i've never seen a rusted 800,900, and late model

Reply to
Rob Guenther

Sunroof is the most scary problem of the bunch you listed there. All sound like they could be nice cars though.

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James Sweet

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