bgpzfm142;129946 wroteThere are two very clean 940T wagons presently for sale on the "I Roll Volvo Group Australia" group on Facebook.
940s seats are a lot nicer than 740s.
Look for when the timing belt was changed, and at the maintenance history in general. Colour of trans fluid should be clean and red. AW71 autos should change up and down without clunks or slip. Steering should feel tight and should not feel loose with a little bit of lock on; this may indicate ball joints or bushes on the way out, or the rack being cactus.
Turbo should spool up fairly well without any nasty noises. Don't expect silky smoothness from a B230FT, but if it vibrates like hell, check out the condition of the engine and gearbox mountings, which do fail.
Power windows should all work; sometimes the master switch on the driver's door goes cactus.
See if the heater works, otherwise it may have leaky heater core which has been bypassed. Face level vents should be able to blow air outta them with fan on and at full throttle - if not, the 2-port vacuum motor that controls the floor and face vents near the heater core has perished, and the face-level vents will go quiet and you'll feel air blowing on your feet during acceleration.
Stage 0 tuning (i.e. replacement of old rubber hoses and leads, etc) is recommended.
If you're doing a transmission swap to a BW / BTR / Tremec T5 5-speed, use one out of a AU Ford. They have the best shift lever positioning for the 940.
The 940T wagon isn't exactly (or remotely) a sports car unless you wanna throw crazy money at it, however it will haul around quite a lot of stuff at quite an adequate rate of knots. I doubt I'll ever willingly get rid of mine, unless it's to replace it with another one.
Thanks for the write up :astonished:
So if I wanted to go down the manual road I could take a T5 out of an AU XR6?