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An old man recently passed away leaving the car to my Dad. He was the sole owner but the car sat in the garage full-time pretty much for the last few months. It has just passed an MOT and needed a new battery.
I do a 30-mile round trip in open countryside twice a day. Do you think this would be a good car to run? Any idea what MPG I could expect? Please advise as I haven't a clue! Thanks!
You can't really go far wrong with a car which has had one owner, a full service history and has a new MOT particularly if it's free
I'm sure there'll be more people around later who know more about a 1.7 than I do, but it should be fairly nippy & if it's country roads you're on, I'd guess you'd be getting 35+ mpg easily ...
as long as you have a mobile phone just in case it breaks down.
I bought my redline (1.7 ) purely to drive from milton keynes to coventry and back (about 120 mile round trip ),
it did this for two years now matter how I abused it and whatever the weather ,
the only thing that ever went wrong was the back box dropped off once
regular maitainence is the key to long life with these ,
keep oil and filter changes to the recommended mileage or even slightly less ( I did mine every 5,000 miles )
distributor cap and rotor arm (plus possibly plug leads ) should be replaced regularly and especially if it becomes hard to start or runs erratically .
there only other achilles heel is the base of the carb can warp but there are plenty of threads on here about that ,
welcome to the madhouse that is V3M and enjoy your 340
Hi Louise, i had a pretty similar situation. (well mine wasn't running but it was free!) I have had my lil volvo for a few weeks now and i love it. Took a bit of getting used to the choke and no power stearing but really is a great little car! I say go for it!
Yes and advice about regular oil change etc- do this.
Hi Louise, I bought my 1.7 G plate Volvo about a year ago now to get to work about 20 miles away. I bought it with 8 months mot with the view to scrapping it when the mot came up again and get another. I still have it and put it through the mot last month all it needed was a new horn. Not bad for a £250.00 car. I am a sedate driver and get up to 40mpg on my run to work (a & b roads) actually, i'm a skinflint so that's why I drive like that really . Good luck with the car, free is even better than cheap.
and get up to 40mpg on my run to work (a & b roads) actually, i'm a skinflint so that's why I drive like that really 
. Good luck with the car, free is even better than cheap.
