P38A I've just done the unthinkable....

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Jon Dor

Jon Dor

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:(:(:(My P38 dumped recently replaced coolant all over the front carpets. I guess the heater matrix o-rings perished, if not the matrix iteslf. This will have been the fourth winter I'd have cold air only on drivers side too, courtesy of the failed blend motor so, unwilling to tolerate what needed doing right now, I SORN'd the P38 and I bought a local diesel Volvo XC70 Cross Country AWD D5 SE. After 36hrs of negotiations after test-driving it, I got the asking price of £1400 reduced bit by bit and paid him £600 for it. Went out for a 200 mile trip on Saturday and it did just shy of 45mpg. Beautiful black leather throughout, needs a few things sorting, including the sound system, but I'm delighted with it so far. Met up with a Volvo enthusiast who has three of them and he hooked it up to his Volvo software. No dramatic hidden codes lurking within the car's computer and he said I'd got the bargain of the year in his estimation.
The P38 repairs will have to wait until the spring or unti I begin to feel up to taking the dash apart, whichever comes later:cool:....
GONE...for now, but i'll be back...
 
Jon, good call on the Volvo XC70, I've admired them from a distance for many years. My son is trying to get me to buy him a C30 for his first car and judging buy your purchase it might not be as expensive an option as I'd thought. Who knows at that price he may get a C30 and I'll get an XC70 too. More toys for the drive, Mrs Tricky will be pleased.
Cheers and don't be a stranger, Tricky.
 
Jon Dor said:
:(:(:(My P38 dumped recently replaced coolant all over the front carpets. I guess the heater matrix o-rings perished, if not the matrix iteslf. This will have been the fourth winter I'd have cold air only on drivers side too, courtesy of the failed blend motor so, unwilling to tolerate what needed doing right now, I SORN'd the P38 and I bought a local diesel Volvo XC70 Cross Country AWD D5 SE. After 36hrs of negotiations after test-driving it, I got the asking price of £1400 reduced bit by bit and paid him £600 for it. Went out for a 200 mile trip on Saturday and it did just shy of 45mpg. Beautiful black leather throughout, needs a few things sorting, including the sound system, but I'm delighted with it so far. Met up with a Volvo enthusiast who has three of them and he hooked it up to his Volvo software. No dramatic hidden codes lurking within the car's computer and he said I'd got the bargain of the year in his estimation.
The P38 repairs will have to wait until the spring or unti I begin to feel up to taking the dash apart, whichever comes later:cool:....
GONE...for now, but i'll be back...
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So long as you haven't rolled it off some cliff, I doubt if this will be the end of your P38 saga.

Mine has spent very long stretches in storage, down with some malady or other, during the time it's been with me.... and it always comes back. I'm sure yours will, too.

:D
 
No need to worry guys, I'll still be popping in to see what craziness has been going on. Oh and...Alan...in 1972 and in my first job, I rolled my brand new Viva HC company car down a mountainside in the Scottish Highlands when I'd only put about 450 -500 miles on the clock. My Sales Diector had let me leave work at noon to head up to Cape Wrath and was less than impressed when it had to be recovered from half way down a mountain in Torridon. Upon returning to Hills Garages Manchester, (almost across the road from Arthur's place), I was allowed to use it's brand new replacement ONLY during working hours, before putting it in the compound every night and all weekend for a month. I had to get the bus to and from Sale every day.
TTFN....
 
Jon Dor said:
:(:(:(My P38 dumped recently replaced coolant all over the front carpets. I guess the heater matrix o-rings perished, if not the matrix iteslf. This will have been the fourth winter I'd have cold air only on drivers side too, courtesy of the failed blend motor so, unwilling to tolerate what needed doing right now, I SORN'd the P38 and I bought a local diesel Volvo XC70 Cross Country AWD D5 SE. After 36hrs of negotiations after test-driving it, I got the asking price of £1400 reduced bit by bit and paid him £600 for it. Went out for a 200 mile trip on Saturday and it did just shy of 45mpg. Beautiful black leather throughout, needs a few things sorting, including the sound system, but I'm delighted with it so far. Met up with a Volvo enthusiast who has three of them and he hooked it up to his Volvo software. No dramatic hidden codes lurking within the car's computer and he said I'd got the bargain of the year in his estimation.
The P38 repairs will have to wait until the spring or unti I begin to feel up to taking the dash apart, whichever comes later:cool:....
GONE...for now, but i'll be back...
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Wotcher Jon! hows things? Betterer than in Hull eh?
Good on yer! does sound like a bargain, espeshly as the prices of 2nd hand cars is allegedly on the rise.
Cheers
Stan
 
Jon Dor said:
Stan, I may "flip" the XC70 for a profit when I've fixed the P38 in the spring or, more likely, give it to my daughter. It'll be a safe, practical, economical vehicle for her family.
Keep safe!
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Not tried the XC70 but a friend has had an XC90 for about ten years and it has been perfect.
 
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