1996 850 T Wagon Low Miles

Post by **abscate** » 16 Mar 2021, 04:07

That looks like the FPR on the fuel rail config; with a return fuel line and a vacuum line running under the intake manifold

MrBreeze · Post by **MrBreeze** » 16 Mar 2021, 20:17

Well, I forgot to mention that the roof rail on one side was chopped off, looks like a tree fell on the roof, the rack rail took most of the brunt, but the roof metal had some medium size dents.

That being said, I was prepared to pay up to $2500 with the dented roof, the car brought $3500 today, which I thought was really high. Oh well.

Post by **scot850** » 16 Mar 2021, 21:33

That's a shame. However, over-priced in my opinion considering the damage.

Neil.

Post by **abscate** » 17 Mar 2021, 04:44

Low mile P80s, under 100k, seem to fetch $3000 on the capital auctions.

They still need $2000 of Stage 0, so you are crazy upside down on these

Post by **850 LPT** » 17 Mar 2021, 08:00

abscate wrote: 17 Mar 2021, 04:44 Low mile P80s, under 100k, seem to fetch $3000 on the capital auctions.

They still need $2000 of Stage 0, so you are crazy upside down on these

You are probably upside down with every single one that is out there for sale, even if you pay next to nothing for it.
I paid $650 for my S70 that was mechanically in decent shape. It took almost $3k to bring it to stage 0. Then I paid another $500 for interior bits and what not, because the poor thing was totally trashed.
Marked value is maybe $1500?
I think owning a P80 is more about passion than financial aspects and it will be like that for a while longer until their value will go up significantly.

Post by **scot850** » 17 Mar 2021, 10:36

You are right about the input required on an old P80 or pretty much any old car let alone a Volvo. The thing is if you look at it financially few old cars used for daily driving would ever make sense. The way I try to justify it to myself is once that money is invested, you could easily get another 5 years of fairly cheap motoring driving something practical but not having to worry too much about being precious with the vehicle. Compare that to payments on a new vehicle and the depreciation over that time then it makes some sense.

Neil.

Post by **abscate** » 18 Mar 2021, 03:33

You might be under water with an old Volvo but you can still see the sunlight and swim with the fishes...

Any new car, you are at the bottom of the Marianis trench