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Originally Posted by Jeremy5848
This is exactly why we're seeing so many cars, apparently in good condition (not crashed), in the junkyards. Because so many people are unable to fix things for themselves and can't afford to have the car fixed (having been up-sold into a car they really can't afford), all of the little non-essential things that break are ignored. When something big breaks the car is now worth so little that it isn't worth fixing (and they probably can't afford it anyway) so the car goes to the junkyard.
Jeremy
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They can afford it actually, they other 3 cars are far more expensive and more reliable than that Mercedes R350 heap of junk. They just refuse to throw good money at bad money.
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Originally Posted by Zacharias
Volvo stuck a fork in its identity when it moved to FWD as a result of all the time and money invested in a new FWD chassis in the leadup to its aborted merger with Renault, thereby losing generations of loyal customers (there used to be a lot of ex-Volvo guys on this forum, once upon a time).
The ones Volvo didn't lose over the RWD loyalists' hissyfit gradually left when the gross quality problems with many years of the 850 chassis became evident. And they lost many of the "new convert" customers they onboarded with the newer, hipper 850 too, once the shine wore off. Same old Volvo dealer network, same old Kiss Our Rude Swedish Butts and Pay Up philosophy.) Like the Germans, they laughed too long and too hard at Lexus, and frankly even the higher spec "pedestrian" Japanese sedans. Now owned by the Chinese. Wow that was a master strategy if I ever saw one. Congrats Volvo executive and board.
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Rubbish, my 850 is going on 220k miles. Everything on it still works perfectly, doesn't leak a drop of oil and passes smog without fail every time. I wish I could say that about my W124 or W201s or W210 or my old Volvo 240, 740. The only one that comes close is my 960 and its also has a white block.