Thread: Volvo S60 2.4

euro cars do handle better generally,but spend too much time in the w/shop.I am a mechanic and owned about 7 euro cars, never again,but the Honda Accord Euro drive like a euro car with the reliabilty of a japa, one of the best cars on the road,hate working on them though, and wish I owned one.

Only cunty thing the Accord Euros seem to do in my experience is cook the odd alternator regulator once in a while (ie the occasional car, not all the time), Honda charge $2k to get one reco'd, but they just send it to our local auto sparky who does the reco for them at ~$400

Mrs. has one of those 2.4 vtec accord euro wagons. Hasn't cost us a cent yet, very comfortable on long trips, economical and the wagon has a reasonably roomy boot. Beats the shit out of her old Mazda of the same age for fit and finish and on road noise

I drove a 2015 S60 turbo a while ago. It was a rocket. Cost a bit more than $7k though.

Only think i have always been told with euro is buy new and sell before the warranty runs out

All highly enlightening
thanks chaps.
We are still looking
199p Might be right that it's cheaper to get something down from wellington than buy here.

What would the panel say about this then ?
Ford Mondeo Aut0 2005 | Trade Me

Originally Posted by jakewire

What would the panel say about this then ?
Ford Mondeo Aut0 2005 | Trade Me

Noooooo

Dammmm!!!!

They're arguably worse than the Ovlov

ahh well back to the laptop.

I have driven 3 Mondeos as company cars. Block was sound just everything bolted to it was crap. Had so many water problems. Blew the tranny on one coming out of the Riverhead forest after a NZDS shoot.
Mrs wanted another car end of last year and wanted a Atenza. Just another Mondeo so no chance of that. I wanted to get a Audi A3 but she said no as repair costs as bad as Tommy said. Same went for the Volvo A40 and Subis.
Ended up with an 06 Toyota Caldina with 76k on the clock just over $9000. Only 1800cc but goes well at 8.5l/100km

My wife had a VW Golf for 7 yrs did 50 k and apart from shitting a valve in the gearbox the day I bought it with 17 k on it, which the car sales replaced, about $4k, I think I spent about a grand on it over those 50 KS, thermostats on the cooling system shit themselves, so I couldn't complain

5 grand of repair bills in 70k is way too much, we have a daihatsu and after 100k it needed 4 tyres, thats it.

this sums up your volvo and mongayo god did a shit and volvo or mongayo take your pick made it move i would suggest you buy yourself a copy of the dog and lemon guide ive always been a toyota guy after i was a ford guy way back when they built proper ones i got 600000ks out of my last corolla and it was still going ok when i sold it also if its a europenis shitter and its got low ks on it its because its spent most of its time in workshops