Hey everyone.
Long story short, I'm looking to get something smaller and more fun than what I drive now to bring to school with me. Last year, I had a 2001 Audi A6 2.7T and fell in love with it. Unfortunately, they aren't really designed to be owned by human beings; in the six weeks I had it, it caught on fire, threw a CEL about five separate times, had a valve cover gasket replacement, and a new cat. This sort of turned me off getting another Audi. Its life was cut short when my best friend plowed into it with his Dodge Ram -- the car was totaled.
Our family (well, not me) does a bunch of stuff with horses, so I've been driving our 2006 Jeep Commander for over a year that we use as our tow rig. It's nice, but it gets about 10mpg(!) in the city, which is where I do most of my driving. Plus it's no fun.
I've been looking at lots of things: VWs, Saabs, and even a C30. This process has taken about six months, and I had intended to buy a car quite a while ago. Finally, I went to a dealer in Greensboro last Saturday to check out a 2006 S60R in silver (Titanium Metallic?) on Nordkap with the Geartronic. Forgive me for not learning all the lingo yet, but I've been lurking for the last couple weeks and I haven't caught onto all of it yet. Here are some crappy pics from the dealer's website:
It's got 74k miles and appears to have been pretty well-maintained. The dealership is asking $14,500, which doesn't seem like a bad price, from the research I've done. The 60k service was done at a Volvo dealer (We had them call the previous owner's dealer that they used and check) and the car actually has a powertrain warranty on it until 100k.
That said, I just had a couple of questions:
-- I read about the "exhaust bracket of death". That'll be the first to go if it's still on, but is there anything else simple to do that most R owners do once they get their cars?
-- This is a really stupid question, but the car has nav and I couldn't find the button to get the damn screen up. Where is it? (By the way, this is great. I hate nav screens being the audio controls too. I love the R's separate audio controls.)
I've been lurking for a while, and this seems like a great forum. Hopefully I'll be able to be a part of it for a long time, as this thing has to last me through college and beyond!
Long story short, I'm looking to get something smaller and more fun than what I drive now to bring to school with me. Last year, I had a 2001 Audi A6 2.7T and fell in love with it. Unfortunately, they aren't really designed to be owned by human beings; in the six weeks I had it, it caught on fire, threw a CEL about five separate times, had a valve cover gasket replacement, and a new cat. This sort of turned me off getting another Audi. Its life was cut short when my best friend plowed into it with his Dodge Ram -- the car was totaled.
Our family (well, not me) does a bunch of stuff with horses, so I've been driving our 2006 Jeep Commander for over a year that we use as our tow rig. It's nice, but it gets about 10mpg(!) in the city, which is where I do most of my driving. Plus it's no fun.
I've been looking at lots of things: VWs, Saabs, and even a C30. This process has taken about six months, and I had intended to buy a car quite a while ago. Finally, I went to a dealer in Greensboro last Saturday to check out a 2006 S60R in silver (Titanium Metallic?) on Nordkap with the Geartronic. Forgive me for not learning all the lingo yet, but I've been lurking for the last couple weeks and I haven't caught onto all of it yet. Here are some crappy pics from the dealer's website:
It's got 74k miles and appears to have been pretty well-maintained. The dealership is asking $14,500, which doesn't seem like a bad price, from the research I've done. The 60k service was done at a Volvo dealer (We had them call the previous owner's dealer that they used and check) and the car actually has a powertrain warranty on it until 100k.
That said, I just had a couple of questions:
-- I read about the "exhaust bracket of death". That'll be the first to go if it's still on, but is there anything else simple to do that most R owners do once they get their cars?
-- This is a really stupid question, but the car has nav and I couldn't find the button to get the damn screen up. Where is it? (By the way, this is great. I hate nav screens being the audio controls too. I love the R's separate audio controls.)
I've been lurking for a while, and this seems like a great forum. Hopefully I'll be able to be a part of it for a long time, as this thing has to last me through college and beyond!