Miles the high milage Volvo 240

[Dnedwards]

Hi, new to the forum and just moved over to Ni so I thought I'd introduce my latest project.
Here's my 380,000 miles Volvo 240 Gl.
Owened by two other people and has it full service history! I've managed to have her out for a few months thanks to the exemption at the moment
She's a 2.0l injection, no red block unfortunately but she pulls well for the age and milage and looks good doing it to. Black interior with one mismatched seat but all tidy with nor rips or tares and heated seats!

Managed to get a boot full of spare parts including new (in the box) headlights and tail lights exhaust ect for a £100 which I was chuffed about.
Looking to re commission her soon with a fair bit of welding in the rear (recommendations welcome near ballynahinch) and a good polish!

 

[greyfloppyhat]

I love seeing high mileage heros like this!

Welcome to the forum

 

[mckeown]

Thats cool! Will be looking forward to seeing it about ballynahinch, ill be in a transit or a silver audi a6 estate!

 

[407_hdi]

Welcome, get a build thread up on the car

 

[lightning]

Tanks. Dad has had one of these as his daily pretty much since I was born. He runs them to 3 or 400k then finds another low mile one somewhere. I used to try talk him into looking at other stuff when I was younger but he’ll never drive anything else.

 

[scub]

I thought I was doing well with my v70 coming up to a quarter of a million kilometres...
obv I've a long way to go!

 

[JH86]

Had a few high milers in my day, such a manly thing

Even tho here in NI anyting over 100k is scrap

 

[Nickyyy]

Unreal car! Welcome to NI. Service something properly and it'll run like a clock, my rangie is just shy of 187k and is going 100% (touch wood)

 

[scub]

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Unreal car! Welcome to NI. Service something properly and it'll run like a clock, my rangie is just shy of 187k and is going 100% (touch wood)

you shouldn't have said that...

 

[Nickyyy]

It's alright I touched wood! I make sure and do it everytime I talk about the rangie lol

 

[stevieturbo]

My van was at 730k before I stopped using it for work...but it's no Volvo ! Volvo daily only has about 128k

 

[ilovequo]

Very nice

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

This thing was a bit of a land mark in Bangor, was sad when I heard the owner passed away. Was even more sad when i heard the car had been sold to someone who hadn't looked after it.
I'm secretly praying you are an enthusiast and are going to restore and get many more years out of it.
Mechanically I know these things pretty well so give me a shout if you like.

 

[purplea4T]

This thing was a bit of a land mark in Bangor, was sad when I heard the owner passed away. Was even more sad when i heard the car had been sold to someone who hadn't looked after it.
I'm secretly praying you are an enthusiast and are going to restore and get many more years out of it.
Mechanically I know these things pretty well so give me a shout if you like.

Don't think the boy passed away, think he changed it for a jag xf, lives/lived round the corner from me opposite Springhill. Came from Roy Paul's I think when it had the parking on the roof on the Old Belfast Road.

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

Don't think the boy passed away, think he changed it for a jag xf, lives/lived round the corner from me opposite Springhill. Came from Roy Paul's I think when it had the parking on the roof on the Old Belfast Road.

He died about 2 years ago, spoke to the guy who got the car from the mechanic