Been doing alot of reading on here, brushing up on the 2 new (to me) 940's I grabbed last year. Great site here!

I do all my own repairs. These cars will never see a shop unless it's for a front end alignment. I've never paid anyone in my life to fix anything. I work from home fixing anything with a gas engine, from weedwhackers to trucks.

I'm a lifelong GM & Ford guy, so I knew next to nothing about these cars until my buddy picked up a '95 940 several years back. After doing ball joints, brakes, and a timing belt job for him, I was SOLD! Couldn't believe the car had been in New England it's entire life, and still had the original fuel and brake lines. In domestics, that's unheard of - 5 years is about it for plain steel!

So now I've got two 940's. A '92 with 235k miles that was pretty beat up .. and that I accidentally dropped a tree on, so that made my decision to keep for parts or sell MUCH easier , and a '93 that had 131k on it, leather heated power memory seats, & power moonroof. Works and doesn't leak either! Real nice shape for it's age, although it's got some busted plastic parts up front - I suspect the woman that owned it prior went off the road shortly before (or, maybe WHEN ...) the fuel pump quit. Her boyfriend had a fire in the harness to the pump somehow, and threw in the towel. I got it for $800! Towed it home in spring of '14, and got it running this August. It sat beside my barn for over a year before I finally got time to work on it. Went through it front to back the past 4 months, and now she's solid - we've put 5k trouble-free miles on it so far.

Never knew what I was missing by avoiding foreign cars my whole life. Nice to finally own a reliable & easy to repair car! Wish it had more HP, but I'll sacrifice power for reliability any day of the week these days.

I'm sure I'll be on here quite a bit continuing my quest for knowledge.

 

Where about in MA are you?