Volvo S60R buying advice

I gave up with my search for a s60 T5, as the very few ones I found were either: over-priced, rough as $hite, or cloned :eek:

So finding an s60r will be very very tough.

I remember a 2006 one for sale, black I think, looked mint, but asking a lot of money though

EDIT: this one: http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3409903

thecomedian wrote: »

I saw a t5 for sale the other day and it might as well have been in a scrapyard!

Id say that's the same s60r as I'm looking at, 06 black

Ya that's the one alright. Looks very clean, but a lot of money. But also a lot of car for the money

Had 2 R's some years back and a T5.

A couple of points:
R is a 2.5 Engine (300 BHP - was also used in Focus RS) with AWD - 0-60 in ~5.5 sec. They are nice cars to drive and not particularly hard on petrol for the power - was averaging about 28-30 mpg on my 60km commute to work. The R's generally have a very high spec - mine had xenons, sat nav, TV, 13 speaker sound sys (With dolby surround), climate, heated seats, telephone etc.
R's also got adjustable sustension with 3 settings - the soft setting was very soft, normal - reasonably hard, and sport - shake the teeth out of you hard.
Servicing is straight forward and no more expensive than a regular car - I bought all the parts on line from the USA (Company call IPD).
The car has a weakness - its transfer differential for AWD (in common with XC90's) - This part has a high failure rate, I did have to replace one unit and it cost ~2k. I
Overall I really liked the R's. BTW the Volvo seats are excellent.
The T5 is a 2.4 engine from 2004 onward with 260bhp with 0-60 ~6 secs (250bhp & 2.3 liter for pre 2004). This is also a nice car but with FWD it can find it hard to put power down and will require a lot of tire rotation to get good tire wear. Obviously with FWD there is more torque steer and understeer when compared to the R. The T5 does not have adj sustension. Kit is generally lower than R. I put 100k miles on T5 and did not have a days trouble.
Both cars sound great with 5 cylinder engine.
Hope this helps
Sean

thecomedian wrote: »

The black s60R that's for sale, is a 2.4 T5 on the log book. But it has the R spec, it has the 3 different settings

The car looks to be an R version - T5 has a single exhaust whereas the R has twin exhausts....also the T5 bumpers are different.

As all the R's in Ireland are imports, I would say that the car was imported with incorrect documentation and was registered as a T5 as this would have much lower VRT (in 2008 I paid 16.5k VRT on a 2006 R).