Faults:

Fuel door hinge broke.

Interior dash lights occasionally flicker at night.

Headliner loosening.

General Comments:

I purchased this Volvo in 2018 from the estate of the original owner for $1500. It had 52K miles at the time. I have driven it 15K miles without any maintenance or repairs aside from two oil changes and two tire rotations. It is a wonderful vehicle that does not use any oil or have any leaks.

Very quiet on the highway, heavy and smooth. Even at 22 years old, the cabin is incredibly quiet at modern freeway speeds of 85+ MPH. Extremely versatile with the folding rear seats (I moved with this vehicle and it's more handy than a full size pickup).

I still have the factory CD/CASS player and use a tape adapter for music off my phone. This base model Volvo has an amazing speaker system. Better than the Mark Levinson system in my LS430. Really blows me away!

I love the leather interior. The seats are so comfortable for me even on cross country drives. I have 0 complaints!

This is my 7th Volvo in my lifetime and definitely the nicest. The A/C works great even in the Texas summer heat. It has many "Eccentricities" that you would find in a Volvo of this vintage. The ABS and SRS lights are on and my CD player can be finicky. My headliner is coming loose in the middle. The fuel door hinge broke, but with some JB Weld I had it fixed up in no time! This car has been such a wonderful, trouble free blessing. I just hope I never have to replace the timing belt!

Faults:

I've had it for exactly 100k miles. Did one or two basic tuneups and generally kept up on the basic maintenance schedule.

Starting to need a major tuneup. Need to replace the shocks and struts etc badly. They probably needed to be replaced before 200k.

It is starting to burn a lot of oil. Close to 2 quarts per 4k oil change cycle. The previous owner was a senile old man who died and did not take great care of the car. I doubt he kept up on maintenance that well. It burnt a little oil when I first bought it, but it is getting worse.

There were a lot of touched up scrapes on the car from where the previous owner hit things. The driver's door and possible the driver side passenger door as well as the driver side fender had been replaced. The whole car might have been in a major accident, because I could never get the doors on the driver's side to line up just right and water would drip, drip in in a big rain storm. The center console also weirdly is impossible to line up and was pressed hard against the driver's seat.

The check engine light is on and there is something wrong with the charcoal canister, or maybe the gas cap is not sealing correctly.

The fake leather liner on the inside of the doors has lifted away from the foam it was glued to in a small spot on all doors. It was like that when I bought the thing. The interior hard plastic is very dry and brittle. Plastic things break easy.

The driver's heated seat went around 200k. Have a replacement switch from the junkyard. Still haven't actually installed it. Maybe I'll do it tonight!

Replaced the inner and outer tie rods at 200k.

Replaced control arm and ball joint assembly around 200k.

Around 190k replaced a couple of small, cracked, dried out rubber hoses leading into the intake manifold. The car went from getting 20 MPG to 25 MPG! Average mixed driving with canoes on the roof.

A/C went at 180k. Still haven't fixed it. Tried charging it, but it lost the charge overnight. It is most likely the heat exchanger/radiator evaporator thing under the dash, but it would cost around $700 to have someone to replace it. I haven't had the time to attempt it myself. A non OEM replacement part is around $250.

Replaced exhaust manifold, catalytic converter and entire exhaust at 175k. Also replaced rear oxygen sensor.

Rear wiper motor went at 170k.

Replaced front oxygen sensor at 160k.

Replaced interior plastic bits here and there over the years.

The shifter button broke at 150k.

There is something electrical wrong when taking the car out of park, so I have to use the manual shift override button. I think it has something to do with the shift position sensor. The reverse lights sometimes don't work, because somehow the computer doesn't know what position the shifter is in. Still haven't fixed it. It started to slowly go wrong around ~150k miles.

General Comments:

Nice car. Has heated leather seats and is fairly comfortable to drive long distances for being such a small car. The back seats are pretty much useless for adults.