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This may sound stupid, and it probably is, but hell..

I currently have access to three T5's - the ones in my sig. The purple one is mine, the white 855 is my mothers and the white 854 is my fathers. We like T5's. ;)

I've just about sold another car of mine, which will give me quite a lot of cash (car was only one year old), which I could either save or have fun with. :D

>>Skip the paragraph below if you can't be bothered to read it all>>

I'm going to 'invest' some money in buying a T5 with a broken engine, dropping a new engine in and selling for some profit, it's not a great deal of money to be made but it'd be fun even if I broke even. For example, a really good T5 with an engine problem sells here for around £1000 - an engine will cost £600 to either rebuild (myself) or buy used. Add in various expenses and I'm looking at a cost of around £1800 to have a nice manual T5 estate with all the goodies. That could then be sold on for £3000-£3500 making a small(ish) profit. If you worked out the profit divided by the labour hours I'd spend on the car I'd probably be better off with a part time job - but thats not as fun :P:excl::P

Anyway. I've always wanted an R. I love 850's.. so I'm thinking (in addition to the above), I could purchase a cheapish 850R or T5R and restore her to showroom condition over a year or two. I'm thinking a yellow manual saloon. B) I've seen a couple go very cheap recently. I would then have my purple auto wagon as my daily drive, and have a manual T5R kept in a garage as my play car. :D

That'd mean I'd personally have two 850 T5's, in addition to my parents 2 T5's, not forgetting the T5 that I'd be working on at that time. B):lol:

Hmm. Maybe I'm starting to get a bit too obsessed with Volvo's. I could of course get something as a weekend car that was non-Volvo - but I'm a Volvo driver through and through :ph34r:

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My initial response was "3, no way! Try something else if you're not getting rid of the T5!" But after reading your motivation, go for it! Do what you love, man.

Espeically if you break even on that "project car"... in retrospect that's a "cheap" hobby! Most hobbies (like Volvos) set people in the negative (in terms if $$$, benefit and enjoyment are another story :D)!

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get another volvo

C70 ;)

I don't really like the C70. It's a nice car, good looking etc.. but there is just something about the 850 that I really really like.

I'd rather have an 850 over a 70-series, any day of the week!

I was doing some hard bargaining for the new S40 T5 with a Volvo salesman mid last year, he got the price down for the top of the range SE with a few options to £20,000 ($38,000) (retail here is $47,000) but I decided to buy an older T5 and put the rest of the money in the bank :ph34r:

Anyone else have this strange addiction to the 850's ?

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My initial response was "3, no way! Try something else if you're not getting rid of the T5!" But after reading your motivation, go for it! Do what you love, man.

Espeically if you break even on that "project car"... in retrospect that's a "cheap" hobby! Most hobbies (like Volvos) set people in the negative (in terms if $$$, benefit and enjoyment are another story  :D)!

I'm going to do one 'project' over the summer, I have a couple of mechanics who will help me if I get stuck, but I'm determined to do everything myself!!!

If it's profitable, I'll do another, and so on. There are plenty of nice T5's with broken engines just crying out for revival! At worst, it'll be a great summer project and a good learning experience. With myself, both parents and two or three friends owning T5's I'm hoping my rather steep learning curve will help them if they need any work done in the future.

The only thing here is the logistics, I live one place, the engine prep will be carried out in another, the car+engine will come together in another place. A logistical nightmare, but hell... I have a big trailer and a towcar. Nothing is impossible! B)

Thanks for the words of support! :D

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This may sound stupid, and it probably is, but hell..

I currently have access to three T5's - the ones in my sig. The purple one is mine, the white 855 is my mothers and the white 854 is my fathers. We like T5's. ;)

I've just about sold another car of mine, which will give me quite a lot of cash (car was only one year old), which I could either save or have fun with.  :D

>>Skip the paragraph below if you can't be bothered to read it all>>

I'm going to 'invest' some money in buying a T5 with a broken engine, dropping a new engine in and selling for some profit, it's not a great deal of money to be made but it'd be fun even if I broke even. For example, a really good T5 with an engine problem sells here for around £1000 - an engine will cost £600 to either rebuild (myself) or buy used. Add in various expenses and I'm looking at a cost of around £1800 to have a nice manual T5 estate with all the goodies. That could then be sold on for £3000-£3500 making a small(ish) profit. If you worked out the profit divided by the labour hours I'd spend on the car I'd probably be better off with a part time job - but thats not as fun  :P  :excl:  :P

Anyway. I've always wanted an R. I love 850's.. so I'm thinking (in addition to the above), I could purchase a cheapish 850R or T5R and restore her to showroom condition over a year or two. I'm thinking a yellow manual saloon. B)  I've seen a couple go very cheap recently. I would then have my purple auto wagon as my daily drive, and have a manual T5R kept in a garage as my play car.  :D

That'd mean I'd personally have two 850 T5's, in addition to my parents 2 T5's, not forgetting the T5 that I'd be working on at that time.  B)  :lol:

Hmm. Maybe I'm starting to get a bit too obsessed with Volvo's. I could of course get something as a weekend car that was non-Volvo - but I'm a Volvo driver through and through  :ph34r:

Just do it dont think :P

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I said no! get a RWD car man! try a 740.

Had two 700 series before, a 2.3 NA and a 2.8 V6.

Throttle response was very bad on both cars. In the words of a UK motoring journelist...

"This is a bad car with a power delivery that beggared belief. In most cars, the throttle is connected to the fuel injection system by a cable or, increasingly, by an electric fly-by-wire pulse. But this obvbiously wasnt the case in Volvo's old barge. Put your foot down in a 700/900 and it simply telegraphed a message to the engine room, where a fat man in an oily vest reluctantly put down his copy of Playboy, and, after a bout of anal scratching, chucked a few more lumps of coal on the boiler. Then there was the handling, or rather, there wasn't"

:lol:

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With all the fun toys you guys get over there you should find something else.

Maybe a used TVR?  :ph34r:

:excl:

The old wedge shaped TVR's fall apart more often than I dare mention, and the newer style TVR's are hideously expensive. That, and running a 5.0 V8 when our fuel is at nearly $7 a gallon puts that idea straight out of the window!

B)

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:excl:

The old wedge shaped TVR's fall apart more often than I dare mention, and the newer style TVR's are hideously expensive. That, and running a 5.0 V8 when our fuel is at nearly $7 a gallon puts that idea straight out of the window!

B)

Yeah. I'm just reacting because I'm jealous of the goodies you guys get.

But then again they give you crap like the Ford Ka.

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