Need advice on Year 2000Volvo S40
 

We are looking at this car for my daughter. It has over 120,000 miles. A year ago the owner put in a set of 4 new tires and a new battery. The asking price is $3000.

Couple things I am worry about:

1. The orange check engine light is on all the time.

2. I don't know if the timing belt is ever being replaced. What is the cost for replacing that? I don't want to find out in a hard way.

Thank you ahead for your insight.

1st: have it hooked up to a reader on the check engine light. Volvo check engine lights are notorious for going off from poor gas cap seals and minor crap like that.

2nd: is she going to have someone to work on it other than a Volvo dealership? That gets expensive.

We owned a 1998 Volvo V70XC. Nothing but problems. That being said, our mechanic (who works on nothing but Volvos and is a complete Volvo nerd) hates the AWD models of Volvos and says they're utter shit.

Sounds like a big mistake.

LMAO

Brock tried to warn me off of Volvos.

I wish I would have listened.

If you don't know if the timing belt has been replaced, it probably hasn't. At that price point, may I suggest any Toyota with a 4 banger?

We're on our 2nd XC90 and my wife may never drive anything but. She love them and we've had 0 issues so far.

Expensive to work on and a lot of them had "issues." I would try to go another direction.

Lots of good advice in this thread
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This is true. My ex had to take her volvo into the shop at least once every other month for this problem -- pretty annoying.

run.....

It depends...

How much do you like your daughter?

Join a good Volvo Forum and soak up some information on that model. Usually you can figure out pretty quick what the common problems are with a car.

Ten year old Volvo, I'm taking it to a mechanic and still getting apprehensive. Ten year old Honda... different story.