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For sale here is my trusty Volvo V70. It’s a 2008 2. 5T SE Lux Geartronic. I bought this car in November last year to use for pretending to be Wallander. I mean, er, driving up and down the country for work purposes. But I've recently taken on a company car, so it is now surplus to requirements. I have covered around 5, 000 miles in that short time, each one a pleasure. It's been absolutely ideal for the use to which it was put, with extraordinarily comfortable seats, a smooth ride, and loads of mod cons. I've really enjoyed the woofly five-cylinder engine note, and I think it looks fab, though I am admittedly quite boring, and therefore easy to please. it's finished in metallic Glacier Blue with 17-inch 'Canicula' alloy wheels, and the 'soft beige' leather interior option, complemented by the matt-finish, open-pore 'modern wood' inserts - all of which makes you feel like you're wafting through the Swedish countryside, staring grimly ahead while trying to solve Scandinavian crimes. Or is that just me? Probably just me. Anyway, the SE Lux model was the top of the range when this car was built, so it has electric heated front seats, cruise control, bi-xenon headlights, front fog lights, a power boot lid, climate control, front and rear parking sensors, and so on. This example also has a couple of rather nice optional extras: the net roller partition for the boot, and keyless entry, which means you can lock and unlock the doors and start the car without once getting the key out of your pocket. Just like they do on TV. Even more surprisingly given this car is now 18 years old, all of the above still works, and works well. What's more, the air conditioning blows icy cold - as tested pretty effectively in the recent heatwave. Also included is the sturdy Travall boot liner I bought for the car. Of course, it's not perfect, and the faults I'm aware of are as follows:- The memory function on the electric seats doesn’t seem to work- There are a few dents and scrapes, and some cloudy headlamp lenses; what's more, the aluminium finish on the roof rails has faded and gone cloudy.- One of the front parking sensors is a tiny bit glitchy so every now and again when you’re sitting in traffic you get a momentary beep. It doesn’t happen once you’re up to speed as the parking sensors don’t function above a certain speed.- There's a bit more wind noise than is normal from the top of the windscreen, which I put down to the fact it's had a replacement in the past and the rubbers sit a little proud. The screen doesn't leak (a common problem on this generation of V70) and the wind noise is only really noticeable above 60mph - I tend to just turn the radio up, which does an excellent job of remedying the problem given the speakers are terrific.- There's only one key with the car. It only came with one, and I lost it while contemplatively looking out at the Baltic Sea from a grey shingle beach. Or something. Hence the brand-new replacement I bought last month. Keys are not cheap on this car - I paid £500 including coding - and as such, I've knocked £500 off the price I was going to advertise it for, in case you want to buy a spare. I bought this particular example because of its outstanding full service history. It's a genuine UK domestic market car, not a Japanese import, like many of the others for sale. It has actually been serviced more than it needed to, with 19 stamps in the service book and invoices to back them up from about 2014 onwards. It still wears its original dealer plates, which is deeply satisfying if you like that sort of rather nerdy thing (and I do). Other work evidenced by the stack of Volvo dealer invoices I got with the car include a timing belt and aux belt, both done by Volvo in 2018 at 81, 563 miles. The belt change interval on these is every 10 years or 105k, which means it won't be due for another couple of years yet. It's just passed its MOT and had a service at my local (and very trusted) garage, so it good to go for another 12 months. It's also had:- A brand new genuine Volvo DIM (instrument cluster) in 2024- Genuine Volvo spark plugs in 2022 @ 91, 255mi- New rear discs and pads and a brake fluid change, again at Volvo, in 2021 @ 90, 505mi- Four brand-new Goodyear Vector All-Season 3 tyres in December 2025 at (approx.) 100, 000mi- A brand new genuine Volvo key fully coded to the car last monthI will listen to sensible offers, but I'm not going to entertain monosyllabic messages asking for hefty discounts a propos of nothing at all, so please, let's not waste your time and mine. On the other hand, if you're serious about envisioning yourself in your own three-part Nordic thriller mini-series, or you just want a solid, sensible, and rather lovely old estate car to waft around in, please feel free to come and have a nose around and take a test drive. It's a good one and I think it'll speak for itself on closer inspection.
