1984 Volvo 240 GL from North America - Comments

Radio.

Heater fan.

Rrear bulb.

This car is a heap.

According to your review, only minor things have gone wrong with your car, although it has 400.000 km behind its back. I don't know what you are comparing it with, but most cars have already died with this age and mileage!

Check other reviews and you'll realize that you own one of the most durable cars ever built!

Yours sincerely,

Gert

Indeed!

Funny, minor repairs, for a 400 000km car, the 240 is an excellent tank.

Sorry for you, but go buy a 400 000km Honda, you will see what has rust and major problem.s

Hey, I'm usually a Mopar guy and I'm thinking of buying a Volvo. As much as I love Mopar, I've never seen one with mileage that high. You're pretty lucky. What makes things worse is that you probably drive it with the "Drive it like you hate it" mentality. It's still strived through that as well.

I'd be well chuffed if I'd bought a used car and that was all that needed attention. You should try buying a second hand Ford of comparable mileage and age to recalibrate your perceptions my son!

Did you ride a bicycle before you owned this car? That's the only thing on earth as old as your car which WOULDN'T have those problems you listed. Most cars need a new engine, transmission, and every other major component replaced at a little more than half the miles your car has now! Driving any car other than a Volvo will quickly realign your perceptions about unreliability.

Really, would your Ford go this far with the sort of abuse you no doubt give your Volvo? I somehow doubt it. Let's see, the only significant thing that has gone wrong with the car is the heater fan, as you feel the need to list blown light bulbs, so I'm wondering why you think it's a heap?

Perhaps it's not fast enough for you, not a convertible, not a four wheel drive, I don't know. But if you hate it so much when it has essentially performed faultlessly, why did you buy it? Volvos, especially 240s, are the most honest, reliable cars I have ever seen. If you don't like it's style, you simply shouldn't have bought it. There are lots of other heaps of garbage available that may appeal to you more...

This car was obviously planted in the U.S. by a terrorist organization so as to confuse the general American motorist into thinking that the huge cubic inch gas guzzlers produced in Detroit are the only viable option when buying a car. This is plainly obvious by the fact that after 400,000 miles/k's only the rear bulbs and heater aren't working. The reason for this is that this vehicle has been specially built to be around long after you have gone to the scrap yard and in so being will be passed on to another poor sole who will to his or her horror may have to replace the front bulbs too in the next 400,000. God help the poor sole who find themselves with such a car.

My heart goes out to you and your family.

Dale Harvey

Australia.

You tell a funny story. Good luck with your next car. If your willing to spend a heap, you can now get LED lights that might last over 400,000.

Happy Volvo Owner,

Vancouver.

Sun 30.01.2006 hi there I have only driven Volvos and I can say laugh if you will like many of my friends do when they see me in my Volvo since I have had mine they all have had five or six times the amount of cars to my Volvo I am a very proud owner and when I'm in the driving seat I feel very safe to know that this car was built to last another word I bet all you Volvo owners don’t have major problems putting this car through its yearly motor test when you take it down to your local testing station by the way mine is a 240 GLT 1988 and has just clocked 116 000 miles I have been told this car has just been broken in when I had my service not bad for a second owner from new from Steve England uk.

Hate to say this people but I think this is ment to be a joke. I thought it was quite funny.

I own an 83 240 GL wagon with 350,000km on the clock. I will be driving this car till I am too old to drive because nothing ever goes wrong with it (I service it regularly using the best oil and filters). As to globes, how many 2008 cars have a warning light on the dash that tells you that a globe has blown? I am now at the age where I would love to relive my youth with a sports car but can't bear to part with my faithful and reliable 240.