A few years back I owned a 84 360 GLS which got bought as an interim car to do me for a month until an insurance claim got sorted. It ended up doing 10,000 miles in 6 months before failing it's MoT on a huge amount of welding.
Anyway, my wife is after a cheap sturdy runabout for a year or so, and rather liked the way that the old Volvo could overtake other cars while costing less than their stereos....
So I've just test driven a 1989 360 GLT injection and I've a couple of questions.The first is that the engine was very sluggish while warming up. Once warm it pulled well. Now I suspect this is probably due to the car having been sitting outside for a month or so, with very little petrol in it. However I wondered if anyone else has seen something similar and whether the fuel injected models were more prone to this?
The second is that I drove it down a roughish lane and it seemed quite bouncy... I can't actually remember how spongy the suspension was on my old 360 (other than it was a bit...), as it was 5 years ago and I've spent the last 4 years in a Saab 9000 (which drove much better over the same bit of road). Anyone know a good way of checking the shock absorbers other than bouncing the suspension up and down?
Cheers
John
