I never owned Volvo, most likely never will.In my opinion some European
brands imported to USA became "luxury automobiles" while crossing the pond.
The hi price was the result of hi labor cost in Europe and clever marketing here
while the design and quality was on the level of econobox from Japan.
Considering Sweden is not exactly tropical climate country the heater replacement
design should take few minutes to replace...as they use heater 8 months a year...
Leon
85 Subwagen Westy

1/4/02 6:18:54 AM, Kitzmann <kitzmann@EXIS.NET> wrote:

>Atleast its not as hard as a Volov 240 blower.  I started the job and got
>to the point where I realized that two beams had to be removed, along with
>the dash, the instruments, center console, add twenty more things......
>Then I said honey take it to the shop.  The shop charged something like
>$800 for installing the new motor.  They had to bore out the casing because
>the old style motor wasn't available and the newer models where just a
>little bit bigger.  This resulted in little plastic snow bits for a month
>or so everytime we hit a bump.  My wife loved that car, but man was it
>expensive.
>Dave
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