It was as sour a lemon as you could imagine. The
entire electrical system was completely replaced 8
times before Harlem. (It was all under warranty thank
God, Volvo coughed up $10000 in replacement costs) I
remeber coming home from school (5th and 6th grade,
Volvo was all the rage in Madison, the soccer mom car
of its day) with my mom and 3 times there would be a
very loud crackling popping sound like you get when
electrics short out and acrid smoke would start
pouring from under the dash where the Mickey Mouse
'fusebox' was. The thing was cursed I'm telling ya. It
was also our first and last experiment with a foreign
car. Ford, Mercury, or Buick is all we ever get now,
nice very comfortable reliable American Made cars. I
still can smell the ozone from that thing...
Mark Lloyd
--- "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:00:17 -0800 (PST), M. Royer
> wrote:
>
> >Parents had a Volvo (can't think off the
> >top of my head what model) biggest POS they ever
> >bought.
>
> Must have been a bad one. I put well over 200,000
> miles on my 164
> before I sold it to a friend. The 740 runs like a
> dream at around
> 100,000. And the big Volvo on teh farm just keeps on
> runnin'.
> -
> B.B. Bean bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bean & Bean Cotton Co
> http://www.beancotton.com
> Peach Orchard, MO
>
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