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1995 850T How many miles does your 850 have?

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Re: 1995 850T How many miles does your 850 have?

Post by j-dawg »

99 T5, it'll hit 245k either today or tomorrow. from what i can tell, this is on original everything except wear and maintenance items.

i do need to replace those valve stem seals, but oil is cheap....
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mecheng wrote: I suggest we change the title to show some love for the better looking S70s. :D How many miles does your 850/S70 have?
Hey, I got one! She's a beaut', and a contender at 223k. :D
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Hi!
According to miles/kilometers conversion calculator, my 95 brick shows 230000 miles (around 370000 km).
That is before instrument cluster repair last month(odometer gear repair).I own that car for about 6 month now.(got it with the cluster already broken) I drive around 600 miles monthly.That is 3600 miles to add.I have no idea of previous owners driving habits besides the lack of proper maintenance and negligence towards this fine piece of engineering or for how long it (cluster)had been broken.
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We have an 95 850 with 89K miles, a non turbo 2000 V70 with 190k miles and a newly aquired V70R on the other end of the pole with around 247K miles.

The V70R is getting a new HG this week but only because the previous owner neglected the timing pulleys and bent valves. Must check the engine number to see if it's original.
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Post by mecheng »

precopster wrote:We have an 95 850 with 89K miles, a non turbo 2000 V70 with 190k miles and a newly aquired V70R on the other end of the pole with around 247K miles.

The V70R is getting a new HG this week but only because the previous owner neglected the timing pulleys and bent valves. Must check the engine number to see if it's original.
Which pulley seized? Was it original?
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Post by rspi »

-ovlov- wrote:Hi!
According to miles/kilometers conversion calculator, my 95 brick shows 230000 miles (around 370000 km).
That is before instrument cluster repair last month(odometer gear repair).I own that car for about 6 month now.(got it with the cluster already broken) I drive around 600 miles monthly.That is 3600 miles to add.I have no idea of previous owners driving habits besides the lack of proper maintenance and negligence towards this fine piece of engineering or for how long it (cluster)had been broken.
You can get the actual mileage from that car.

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mecheng wrote:
precopster wrote:We have an 95 850 with 89K miles, a non turbo 2000 V70 with 190k miles and a newly aquired V70R on the other end of the pole with around 247K miles.

The V70R is getting a new HG this week but only because the previous owner neglected the timing pulleys and bent valves. Must check the engine number to see if it's original.
Which pulley seized? Was it original?
The idler pulley was coarse and the tensioner pulley was very noisy. Who knows perhaps the timing belt snapped. I'll never know because I purchased the car from a 3rd party and the head was already removed and timing belt discarded.

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Post by polskamafia mjl »

mecheng wrote:
I suggest we change the title to show some love for the better looking S70s. :D
You spelled 850 wrong.
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polskamafia mjl wrote:
mecheng wrote:
I suggest we change the title to show some love for the better looking S70s. :D
You spelled 850 wrong.
A clean 850 will turn more heads than a clean S70.

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Post by hausmeister »

212 864miles on my 850 T5-R.
Looks like 2nd gearbox.

currently It is leaking quite a bit of ATF. Otherwise no engine or transmission issues. Hope It is just the dipstick or something, it started leaking somtime after I changed the pnp switch.
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