Erm...the OP did mention 'the purchase two years ago'.

We just this week went over 69 000 _kilometres_ (<43K miles) on our '95
850T (which we bought new).

cheers,

Henry

Thank you all for your condolences.

The car is dark gray, has a perfect black leather interior and drives
beautifully (up until last Monday, that is).  The AC works (probably still
does too).  It's got a factory stereo with CD (sorry I don't recall the SC#)
to which I added Infinity speakers and a 12-disc Pioneer CD changer.

KBB value is somewhere betweeh $3-4K.

I bought it two years ago for $3000 at 58,000 miles.  The reason I got it
relatively cheap is that it had been in a an accident, and the hood, grill
and front left headlight and fender were replaced.  It has a "reconstructed"
title.  Perhaps the accident was the origin of the tranny problem, but I
doubt it, beyond the front left corner, there is no sign of damage under the
hood.

I first saw the dreaded "flashing up arrow" over a year ago.  I took it to
my foreign mechanic, who sent me to a tranny shop where they said they
couldn't work on it because they don't have the VADIS computer.  They sent
me to the dealer who told me then (a year ago) that I needed a transmission.
On the advice of this group, I instead had the tranny flushed and it has
worked pretty well ever since.  I've occasionally gotten the flashing
up-arrow but it usually went away after a couple of restarts (see my earlier
posts to this group).

Now the car is parked at a different dealer, 30 miles away.  It's undrivable
and this dealer also declares that it needs a new tranny, for $3200.  The
car is obviously a lemon and wouldn't be worth $3200 after the repair.  I
need to get it towed away by the end of the week or the dealer will start
charging me storage.

Just getting it towed home would probably cost me $100.  I suppose, if I
owned a tow truck, I could drive it around to tranny shops until I found
someone who could fix it, but I don't own a tow truck.  Nor do I have the
time to shop for a tranny in a junk yard and install it myself.  Perhaps
most importantly, I need a car to get to work.

If you would like to have it towed away from 128 Volvo, at the intersection
of 128 and 93, just north of Boston, you can have it for $500 (the stereo
alone is worth more than that).  Send me an Email quickly.

I've always loved Volvos, this is my 7th in 30 years.  I've had all of the
usual problems over the years, collapsing seats, failed wiring, failed
tankpumps, etc., which I took with good humor, but this is totally
unacceptable.  I will never buy another Volvo.

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-RL  ('76 264, '76 262, '78 264, '87 240, '89 240, '96 850, '96 850)

I think that vehicle has a Japanese Aisin-Warner transmission, so a
tranny shop which works on lots of Toyotas would be a good choice.

John

just swap it out w/one running ok...it is cheaper and faster...in my
expierence...(on my 3rd one in a 1993 940t)....aprox
3 hrs labor...