My Saturn L300 also starts up easy in cold (-20c) weather, but the V6 really hates being that cold and it'll scream like a banshee. Not like this thing, it actually sounds quite normal.
Last year i was starting my old 850 and yeah...-15C it worked
(the car was out the whole winter 2009 to the winter 2010 and than i stared the best car in the world and that was exactly what i was thinking after i stared it)
and now I'm a proud owner of a V70-04. (that starts every time i turn the key)
Thats nothing. My volvo 740 from 1985 with carburetor starts every day in -20c in these cold Swedish winters... it can even be colder... Now thats a reliable car
please don't read... realy hate thes everyone im sooooooooory SO SORRY copy and paste this to 10 videos or your mum will die within the next 4 hours...
There was about -29 degrees celsius in January-February last winter in Finland, and my '91 Caprice started EVERY MORNING (that temperature lasted 4 weeks) without the block heater... Ok, it has six months old Exide battery... but still Chevy did pretty well IMO do you think so??? mileage 200'000 kilometers...
Just imagine how cold the leather seat felt under those conditions ;)
Yeah, it's my first comment in English... I'm sorry about my gibberish :)
old beater :( that is sad. that car is definitely not an old beater. i have the turbo. and that thing moves like a bmw. I freak out friends by saying "here im going to overtake this porsche" and they are like "what no you are in a volvo' and then they are like "whoaaaa"
min är alltid seg i början! den låter först motorn gå ett varv på veven typ sen startar dne alltid :S varför? är turbona så att turbon behöver komma igång på det viset?
well Ford has owned volvo for about 10 years until now and stuff remains separated between the both marks, kinda like VW did with Rolls, when they owned the british. Toyotas are good. My dad had a Cressida, a few Camrys and one Avalon. Fine automobiles, kinda everlasting also. Hondas are better, I think. Nissan and Mazda even more. BUt Volvo and Saab... dude... lol that's another level! Greetings! ;)
lol nah. That's swedish technology. Even better than the already awesome japanese one. LOL sometimes I think that Volvo is one of the few everlasting things which will remain of our civilization, in the day we disappear, to the future civilizations! :D
The 6 diesel was the VW 1588cc four extended out with another two cylinders. They had a reputation for cracking the cyl heads. Most of 'em went into LT vans.
Most of 'em lost the cylinder heads around 120k miles. People do not follow the fluid change service periods. The engine was designed for a van..not a car. Inherently it was quiter than the neweer direct injection diesels, but the engine was just to long to withstand the thermal stress of being turbocharged. If you changed your fluids often then fine..if not then you lost the engine..happened often.
Yep the engine was too long. When they added the Garret turbo the stress was too much even though the unit was both water and oil cooled. VW never used poor materials and always used the best design they had at that moment in technology. No doubt today the computer would take two seconds to model this weakness, but the marketing dept wanted a diesel to supercede the Perkins units they were using in the LTs. The easy way was to lengthen the existing 4 cyl unit.
It seems like you know what you are talking about! But do you remember the old 1.6 diesel engine? They were nightmares and not turbocharged.What then - poor maintenance or material was causing them to fail (heads, seizures) ?
Regarding lenghtening the egines but Mercedes ones: wasn't W123 300D 5-cyl just extended 200/240D engine? One of the versions got turbo attached and they were just great performers. What I am trying to say is that with a good strenght components T/C shouldn't be a problem.
I have run and fixed most of the VW diesels. The best VW diesel engine was the first naturally aspirated 1588cc unit as fitted in the first Golf car. The engine was a gem, unbreakable and easy to fix..as long as the total mass of the vehicle was not exceeded and the engine fluids were changed. When VW went water cooled they used the same suppliers as MB, BMW and Opel..the chief engine designer was brilliant..I just forget his name..damn. series.
The "nightmare" VW diesels are the AHU series direct injection 1900cc turbo units. They are really forced into a difficult operational state because of emission regulations. I remember that engineers name..Dip Ing Fritz Indra. When they added the extra two cylinders onto the 1588cc the marketing dept. over-rode the engineers. There were no inherent material quality failures..it was a design failure. After-market maintenance is always an unknown, most is usually below the minimum.
You call your 850 a beater? Ive got a 1982 245 GLT Turbo Wagon, and even that is still in good condition with almost 300,000 miles on it. It starts with more enthusiasm then that too.
Im not trying to diss your ride, im just representing volvo. Those things NEVER die
Omg. It's so funny seeing you people talk about your car starting in ten below like it's something to be proud of. All you must be farther south then me because I live in Minnesota. And when some says cold start, I think -20 or colder. I got a 97 Lumina with the 3100 at 210K that'll start in -40 like it's the fourth of july. Lol. Around here at that temp most cars won't start, mostly imports and fords though lol...
I'm from Minnesota. My Nissan has never failed to start, neither have the two Honda's in the house. The 2000 Suburban, on the other hand, has a bit more trouble. Imports are definitely the way to go if you are looking for reliability.
In fact, this video was recorded in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
The coldest start I did was in Sherbrooke, Canada a couple years ago. At that time I had a toyota Cressida and it was -44C outside. It started on the first try (a pretty long try), the gas stuck and my door didnt close. I went to school holding the door shut with the foot on the brake :)
It's so funny seeing people like you assume that you know everything, the person who posted this video is from Canada, in case you didn't know, Canada is North of you. ;-)
that wasn't the A/C compressor, that was the Fan from the heater. In the 850's it often makes this sound when the axels are dry. my done that too, i oiled it with silicon spray, now its silent :-)
My old diesel Corolla started without pre-heating (heater was plugged but broken and i did not notice...)after over 24h at -34C. Only about 3secs of starting and it started... For 5-10 secs it was running rough but then settled down nicely. I was a bit surpriced when I noticed that the heater was broken!
I think that presently, all the cars are supposed to start easily even if it is cold outside. Fuel injection systems are more efficient than before during cold starts. Your squeal is probably as simple as a worn out belt in front of the engine.
My Saturn L300 also starts up easy in cold (-20c) weather, but the V6 really hates being that cold and it'll scream like a banshee. Not like this thing, it actually sounds quite normal.
jacketman22 3 months ago
fires right up in the cold
schindlerman96 3 months ago
I live next to a volvo repair shop full of volvos am i lucky :D!
fgtxpaco7458ss 10 months ago
Last year i was starting my old 850 and yeah...-15C it worked
(the car was out the whole winter 2009 to the winter 2010 and than i stared the best car in the world and that was exactly what i was thinking after i stared it)
and now I'm a proud owner of a V70-04. (that starts every time i turn the key)
"Volvo. For Live"
VolvoEP 11 months ago
Thats nothing. My volvo 740 from 1985 with carburetor starts every day in -20c in these cold Swedish winters... it can even be colder... Now thats a reliable car
Bocahin 1 year ago
wait, i dont understand, you started the car? why does this have so many views? what am i missing?
sethmac86 1 year ago
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please don't read... realy hate thes everyone im sooooooooory SO SORRY copy and paste this to 10 videos or your mum will die within the next 4 hours...
DUETTRAGGARN 1 year ago
and every body died
kingfker 1 year ago
you can allways depend on your volvo
ugglansnugglan 1 year ago
wow its funny to see that low on the temp guage. i saw someone below say -44c.
our winter is comming on less than 1 month to go. yet it says nearly +20 outside. a very warm autumn. our cold is like -2.5 mid winter.
still its pretty cold to us.
steviebboy69 1 year ago
i dorve one of this with 680000km.... damn it was a good car!!!!
santosteixeira76 2 years ago
Like all Swedish cars if it doesn't start it's something wrong with it no matter how cold it is.
ViewerSonic 2 years ago 2
Какое масло льёшь чучело?
Roma11051988 2 years ago
they dont build them like they used to do
munteanuioan 2 years ago
Haha, good ole Volvo engines... negative 21 degrees Celsius and still starts like the day she was bought!
xNIAC1Nx 2 years ago 4
@xNIAC1Nx
Yeah right...
There was about -29 degrees celsius in January-February last winter in Finland, and my '91 Caprice started EVERY MORNING (that temperature lasted 4 weeks) without the block heater... Ok, it has six months old Exide battery... but still Chevy did pretty well IMO do you think so??? mileage 200'000 kilometers...
Just imagine how cold the leather seat felt under those conditions ;)
Yeah, it's my first comment in English... I'm sorry about my gibberish :)
82lesabre 1 year ago
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82lesabre 1 year ago
old beater :( that is sad. that car is definitely not an old beater. i have the turbo. and that thing moves like a bmw. I freak out friends by saying "here im going to overtake this porsche" and they are like "what no you are in a volvo' and then they are like "whoaaaa"
electricvelocity 2 years ago 4
petrol engine I assume...? Why would it not start..?!?
CoffieVerkeert 2 years ago 4
turbo
lonelydriver9119 2 years ago
Whats the dial above the fuel and temp?
Mandog20000 2 years ago
that the turbo presiour ( at least i think its spelld that way)
americanfotballnr78 2 years ago
-21 Celsius, and yet she starts without a single problem!
Meditry93 2 years ago 7
had a 850 myself, and where i live its easely over -35C every winter, no problem starting my car. :-D
Impreza69 2 years ago 2
really nice! I have a gle from -93 and there´s no problem
willebillman09 2 years ago 3
haha:) volvo 4 ever old beast^^,
larsmagda 3 years ago 2
min är alltid seg i början! den låter först motorn gå ett varv på veven typ sen startar dne alltid :S varför? är turbona så att turbon behöver komma igång på det viset?
protorace 3 years ago
well Ford has owned volvo for about 10 years until now and stuff remains separated between the both marks, kinda like VW did with Rolls, when they owned the british. Toyotas are good. My dad had a Cressida, a few Camrys and one Avalon. Fine automobiles, kinda everlasting also. Hondas are better, I think. Nissan and Mazda even more. BUt Volvo and Saab... dude... lol that's another level! Greetings! ;)
DerAdventurer 3 years ago
what the hell this is impossible
richardmoeller 3 years ago
lol nah. That's swedish technology. Even better than the already awesome japanese one. LOL sometimes I think that Volvo is one of the few everlasting things which will remain of our civilization, in the day we disappear, to the future civilizations! :D
DerAdventurer 3 years ago 5
yeah volvo is better than most japanese (new) cars. especially toyota... i've heard volvo is ford? thats really bad.
the quality is gone bad and the prices high!
richardmoeller 3 years ago
Unfortunately, you're right. Volvo is Ford since 2000. You can't fukk an old Volvo, they are too strong :)
eMMjunaYschion 3 years ago 2
thank god i have a 93. it only has 135k miles on it. im hoping it will run as long as that 1 on the video.
urDUMBstfu 3 years ago 3
the old volvo's is werry good and strong, but the newer volvo's (s60,s80 and v70) is just like the old 700 and 800 series?.
larsmagda 2 years ago
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chidoguan6969 3 years ago
Fantastic!! No problem!!
Thevolvoboys 3 years ago
Everlasting automobiles.
DerAdventurer 3 years ago 2
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Pretty easy to start but I think it was a 6-cyl engine thus much easier to start than ordinary 4.
FunSubaru 3 years ago
It's an inline 5.
randy25rhoads 3 years ago 5
850 never had a 6cylinder engine
PatrickDerner 3 years ago
OK.
Was Volvo series 2XX equipped with 2.4 6 cyl. in-line engine, then?
FunSubaru 3 years ago
the 240 series had only 4 cylinder engines and the 260 series had a V6 engine and a inline six engine thats was a diesel engine.
PatrickDerner 3 years ago
Here we are! My mistake! I commented this video as it was a diesel engine!
Now it is clear. Thanks.
FunSubaru 3 years ago
Haha :P
PatrickDerner 3 years ago
Yep. ;).
FunSubaru 3 years ago
The OLD Volvo 240's had a VW 6cyl diesel engine option. They aren't very common now because it was a junk engine.
palebeachbum 3 years ago
Was it? Why? As far as I know, they were VERY reliable and very long-lasting!
FunSubaru 3 years ago 3
The 6 diesel was the VW 1588cc four extended out with another two cylinders. They had a reputation for cracking the cyl heads. Most of 'em went into LT vans.
dergrossen 3 years ago 5
And I am still surprised as I saw hundreds of LT vans working hard having those engines...
FunSubaru 3 years ago
Most of 'em lost the cylinder heads around 120k miles. People do not follow the fluid change service periods. The engine was designed for a van..not a car. Inherently it was quiter than the neweer direct injection diesels, but the engine was just to long to withstand the thermal stress of being turbocharged. If you changed your fluids often then fine..if not then you lost the engine..happened often.
dergrossen 3 years ago
Great info - thx.
Do you think, that the length of the engine was a factor for not being able to be turbocharged? Or rather poor materials?
FunSubaru 3 years ago
Yep the engine was too long. When they added the Garret turbo the stress was too much even though the unit was both water and oil cooled. VW never used poor materials and always used the best design they had at that moment in technology. No doubt today the computer would take two seconds to model this weakness, but the marketing dept wanted a diesel to supercede the Perkins units they were using in the LTs. The easy way was to lengthen the existing 4 cyl unit.
dergrossen 3 years ago
It seems like you know what you are talking about! But do you remember the old 1.6 diesel engine? They were nightmares and not turbocharged.What then - poor maintenance or material was causing them to fail (heads, seizures) ?
Regarding lenghtening the egines but Mercedes ones: wasn't W123 300D 5-cyl just extended 200/240D engine? One of the versions got turbo attached and they were just great performers. What I am trying to say is that with a good strenght components T/C shouldn't be a problem.
FunSubaru 3 years ago
I have run and fixed most of the VW diesels. The best VW diesel engine was the first naturally aspirated 1588cc unit as fitted in the first Golf car. The engine was a gem, unbreakable and easy to fix..as long as the total mass of the vehicle was not exceeded and the engine fluids were changed. When VW went water cooled they used the same suppliers as MB, BMW and Opel..the chief engine designer was brilliant..I just forget his name..damn. series.
dergrossen 3 years ago
The "nightmare" VW diesels are the AHU series direct injection 1900cc turbo units. They are really forced into a difficult operational state because of emission regulations. I remember that engineers name..Dip Ing Fritz Indra. When they added the extra two cylinders onto the 1588cc the marketing dept. over-rode the engineers. There were no inherent material quality failures..it was a design failure. After-market maintenance is always an unknown, most is usually below the minimum.
dergrossen 3 years ago
lol,-21, frost in the combustion chamber, and it started easier than my ford fiesta at 2c, lol
deviljamez 3 years ago
Fantastic.
moondog637 3 years ago
I'm getting a volvo, coming from an Older Benz it has a lot to live up too but I think it should.
fearthedreadlox 4 years ago
wow temperature : -21 °C
winkelried1978 4 years ago
You call your 850 a beater? Ive got a 1982 245 GLT Turbo Wagon, and even that is still in good condition with almost 300,000 miles on it. It starts with more enthusiasm then that too.
Im not trying to diss your ride, im just representing volvo. Those things NEVER die
drumman14 4 years ago
Omg. It's so funny seeing you people talk about your car starting in ten below like it's something to be proud of. All you must be farther south then me because I live in Minnesota. And when some says cold start, I think -20 or colder. I got a 97 Lumina with the 3100 at 210K that'll start in -40 like it's the fourth of july. Lol. Around here at that temp most cars won't start, mostly imports and fords though lol...
WesNumber1 4 years ago
I'm from Minnesota. My Nissan has never failed to start, neither have the two Honda's in the house. The 2000 Suburban, on the other hand, has a bit more trouble. Imports are definitely the way to go if you are looking for reliability.
piratejake2001 4 years ago
In fact, this video was recorded in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
The coldest start I did was in Sherbrooke, Canada a couple years ago. At that time I had a toyota Cressida and it was -44C outside. It started on the first try (a pretty long try), the gas stuck and my door didnt close. I went to school holding the door shut with the foot on the brake :)
brickster240 4 years ago
It's so funny seeing people like you assume that you know everything, the person who posted this video is from Canada, in case you didn't know, Canada is North of you. ;-)
xbluexstainx 4 years ago
@WesNumber1 wow thats really cold -44. doesnt even get that cold in my deep freezer.
-2.5 to about -4 is cold as it gets here.
steviebboy69 1 year ago
volvos rock
alz1010 4 years ago 2
volvos are the best cars there is...saddly they don't make them RWD anymore
nikose34 4 years ago 17
1. FWD is safer
2. It's more complex to make
3. It's "easier" to use.
Tho, RWD is FUN!
Stigern 4 years ago 4
Sometimes I miss my 240DL. Especially when I need to repair something on the 850. 240s were pretty easy to work on. Excluding the heater fan motor:)
brickster240 4 years ago 5
i have a 1996 Ford Ranger XLT and it all ways starts even when it is -10 with no porb
josh198869 4 years ago
Did I hear your A/C compressor kick on a couple seconds after it starts? Huh???
palebeachbum 4 years ago
i think not. maybe just the keys when i release the starter. the ac compressor is not supposed to kick in when it is less than 0C outside.
brickster240 4 years ago
that wasn't the A/C compressor, that was the Fan from the heater. In the 850's it often makes this sound when the axels are dry. my done that too, i oiled it with silicon spray, now its silent :-)
felix945 4 years ago
Volvos and Saabs have got to start cold being from Sweden and stuff.
Travellinghobo2 4 years ago
My Dieselsaab doesnt sound very promising at cold temps. Although I have been avoiding to start it at -10-> -30 without pre-heating.
Gotta test it some cold winter @-20C.
Just to know if it starts...
123snuggles 4 years ago
Well if it's a diesel I'm assuming it's one of the newfangled 9-5's or 9-3's. Diesel engines need to be hot to start, it'll be OK when it warms up.
Travellinghobo2 4 years ago
My old diesel Corolla started without pre-heating (heater was plugged but broken and i did not notice...)after over 24h at -34C. Only about 3secs of starting and it started... For 5-10 secs it was running rough but then settled down nicely. I was a bit surpriced when I noticed that the heater was broken!
123snuggles 4 years ago
what a babe... it must be sentimental... what volvo isnt?
kdailey 4 years ago
my dads jeep when its like -20 makes the worst sound, like squeals like a pig
flybikes90 4 years ago
I think that presently, all the cars are supposed to start easily even if it is cold outside. Fuel injection systems are more efficient than before during cold starts. Your squeal is probably as simple as a worn out belt in front of the engine.
brickster240 4 years ago
2.3 T5
pellemarcel 4 years ago
She sounds sweet - what engine is that?
pegjh 4 years ago
Great Cars!!! Volvo 850s Rule! Had one since 97' and it has never had any major problems!
902120 4 years ago
my dad had two 850's and the cars never broke down good cars
jacktharippares 4 years ago
My Dodge Caravan will start right up when it's icy and -20 degrees F, but yes Volvo's are good cars
3800fan 4 years ago
Volvo 850 - one of the best cars I've ever owned. they never let you down
morgrp 4 years ago
And this is why I only drive Volvo's. :]]
Flythefriendlyskies 4 years ago
what happened to the hubcaps?
xbluexstainx 5 years ago
I lost one so I removed them all. Anyway the steel wheels are used during winter only.
brickster240 5 years ago