That is horrible just plain horrible.
I feel for you man really. If I were near you I would come pick you up or something!

Bought a 1993 850 last week.
Here is what has already been done...
Rear Main Seal (No oil was leaking when I bought it but the mechanic still fixed it)
Gonna have to do something about the insane idling issue

Uh that is it.

I like it a lot...
I would run through the site and look at all the ...

Will take two orders of how do you find that sensor...My car started doing this on the way to work...Patience so thin...

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to free the midsection of my antenna...It just sticks. I have sprayed the crap out of it with lubes from the day I got the car. I have read about it but does anyone have a trick to free it?

He charged me nothing for the following:
Rear Main
Oil Pan was resealed
Oil Cap Gasket
Tire Balance and Rotation
Slight brake work
State Inspection

I figure there was easily the price of the car in what he agreed to do for free. Also because the leak was hiding itself so well he went over the car ...

Update!

It was the rear main. After much work my mechanic finally pulled the transmission out. For some reason the drip was coming right down the oil pan making it look like the seal on that had gone bad.

I can finally pick my car up tomorrow after only...A week.

Yay!

So I thought...So I thought...
As of today I still do not have the car back.
My guy dropped the oil pan and resealed it but the oil is still coming from somewhere. I am very close to getting my money back and buying a 2001 S60 2.4T

I really do like the 850 and it would have been a great deal but I ...

While I am sure the heated seats have long since ceased being able to heat up in my 93 850 I do not like that the passenger side button is broken.

Also I noticed that the window buttons are rather...Sticky. Not to the touch but they tend to stay down.

Is it easy to clean the panel?

I love Volvos. I have always liked them. My friend's parents had the same wagon and sedan from as far back as I can recall until they gave them to their kids.

The wagon saved my life and my friends life when we got plowed into by a drunk driver flying through a stop sign. (The sedan is still ...

In the US the worst things I ever remember hearing about them were they were "boxy" or "expensive to repair". I have always liked them though...