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Originally Posted by Tassie
Thinking of Volvo 850's as well but I've heard negative comments on the electrical reliability although sound vehicles mechanically.
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The 850 isn't bad. Our second car right now is an 96 850 manual wagon, sort of a rare combination. The main things to keep an eye out on the 850 is the timing belt and tensioner needs to be changed every 70k miles on the dot. If it fails you're looking at a new engine. Otherwise ours has proven extremely reliable with 206k miles on the clock. Its not as cheap or as simple to maintain as the 240/740/940 but returns better fuel economy and the non turbo 850 is about as quick as the earlier RWD turbos. 95+ 850 was the first car with side airbags. As with any other car of this age, previous owner maintainance history is way more important than anything else.
cheers
Justin