Introduce me and my lovely car :)

[jjonn]

Hi all, glad i was introduced to your site. I am a proud new owner of a volvo 340 gle, 1986 d reg, with only 5000 miles on clock, ...yup, 5 k ! It belonged to my grandfather, who passed away. I am 38, and newly converted from motorcylces. Want to say hi all, and here is my car, and i look forward to some banter, and some advice, from all the enthusiasts out there

[volvosneverdie]

Welcome in Sir.
Looks like a remarkable example!

More (many) pics warranted id say.

You enjoying the 4 whhels after 2?
(at least its rear wheel drive)

[jjonn]

more pics..hope they ok, was late outside Asda, lol

[jjonn]

LOL! thanks ok, 1 more

[jjonn]

Hi volvosneverdie, yes, i am loving 4 wheels, a whole new experance, and i look forward to looking after this machine, as much as i look forward to it looking after me!

[griffo20022]

Jesus christ! 5K mileage! It's only just due for it's first oil change after 20 years lmao! That's amazing! Welcome to the site dude

[jjonn]

Thank you vey much, I am as i said, excited, and now a convert! : ( oh, i have done 200 miles since i got it, looks like i am thrashing it, lol )

[volvosneverdie]

Thank you vey much, I am as i said, excited, and now a convert! : ( oh, i have done 200 miles since i got it, looks like i am thrashing it, lol )

Glad youre enjoying it dude.
Theyre good cars and not hard to look after.
Chase the rust (not that yours will have any!) and they become rather hard to kill.

Hard to let go of too.

[Nimminz]

welcome, and i thourght my 46K milage was low!

[trabitom99]

5K????


That's incredible.

Tom

[volvodspec]

5K, that's something new

do make sure you get the oil changed soon (preferred before using it as a daily or long journeys) and take a look under the valve cover to see if it's kinda clean. you don't want the oil-pickup pipe to get blocked by sludge

weird speclist for a GLE though, is it a 1.4 or a 1.7?

[SteveP]

It'll be a 1.7 as the UK never got 1.4 saloons

[trabitom99]

AFAIK GLE in the UK is more of a trim level definition, in Europe GLEs were 2.0l injected saloons (although I'm sure I saw a GLE hatch for sale in France, once).

Cheers

Tom

[volvodspec]

there's also the 340GLE saloon as millionaire; sold in holland/belgium. speclist quite similar to a GLT

[Speedy88]

potential bkv winner alert. Nice car!