Thanks for all this input everyone! Shops are probably assuming the usual, tune-up, PCV, Seals, brakes, plus the minor things a lot of us fix regularly on twenty year old Volvos. Shop estimate 2-3k, DIY estimate 5-6 hundred, plus time. That sounds like what the shop is expecting to fix/replace. I ha...

wizechatmgr wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 20:53 Where abouts in MA are you?
There is a bunch of folks that travel through MA, myself occasionally included.

I live in Great Barrington.

Hello, I have a 1998 V70 XC wagon that has sat for almost a year. I don't think this is a happy car anymore. The car has 160,000 miles on it. It was running when I got it, but was probably ready for some service. The battery died while it sat. When I replaced the battery in February the throttle got...