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I love FCP - Why Buy Parts Anywhere Else?

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
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Re: I love FCP - Why Buy Parts Anywhere Else?

Post by rspi »

I ALWAYS encourage people to purchase parts from companies that support the brand. They stock parts that Volvo dealerships don't even stock.

Other companies offer a great warranties as well. The only hard thing to me is the time it takes for parts to arrive in NM, 10 to 15 days is a long wait.
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Walked in and got a 2nd free replacement for a large can of Pentosin DOT4 brake fluid,
flushing all of our cars. Had to fill out a form this time but no trouble, they looked up
and read me all the invoice numbers etc.

Volvo is running Castrol 10W-30 from them and I have gotten a free replacement.

Our other cars are running LquiMolly 5W-30 and I also got free replacements of it.

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Post by abscate »

We just sold our BMW , replaced with a nice xc90, amd reviewing the parts records I got FreeCP on..

Two sets of front brakes
One set rear brakes
Cooling group
Pcv group
Lots of brake fluid
4 coolant flushes
Two bottles transfer case fluid
Numerous wiper blades

About $2000 in parts/fluids

We spent about $6000 in parts over 170,000 miles driven….. or 3.5 cpm? Seems cheap
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Post by bmdubya1198 »

abscate wrote: 09 Apr 2025, 03:49 We just sold our BMW , replaced with a nice xc90, amd reviewing the parts records I got FreeCP on..

Two sets of front brakes
One set rear brakes
Cooling group
Pcv group
Lots of brake fluid
4 coolant flushes
Two bottles transfer case fluid
Numerous wiper blades

About $2000 in parts/fluids

We spent about $6000 in parts over 170,000 miles driven….. or 3.5 cpm? Seems cheap
I think that's pretty reasonable!
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Post by scot850 »

I think that is very reasonable. I think it goes towards showing that when a car is actually 'maintained', even BMW's can be reliable and not too expensive to own.

Good to see it has found a new home to hopefully continue on.

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