K Jetronic and a bit of an intro

[CWXC70]

Hello everyone,

First post despite being registered a year or so now.

Unfortunately my username reflects a car I now hate with a vengeance, a 2006 XC70 with a whole load of issues that I no longer have the patience to want to fix and even if I did I doubt I'd trust it to get me any further than my bicycle. Roll on about a year of it being parked up while I decide it's fate and me using my Land Rover and I'm back to Volvo ownership, my fourth now, a 1988 240 GLT with a healthy 260k on it (run in). It is actually a car that has had a little air time on here already, a baby blue GLT previously owned by GraveAvenger

Basically I've done what I should have done a year ago and gone for a simple car that wears it's heart on it's sleeve with nothing much in the way of computer systems and nothing much to go wrong.I learned to drive and took my test in a 1978 245DL so it seems right to return to a good honest 240. The 850 T5 was fun, the V70 TDi was sensible, now for a proper keeper because I hate the XC70

Which brings me to my question about K Jetronic. Last time I had a car with K Jet was in the late 80's when I knew not a lot about fixing things. Now my abilities have improved somewhat but I was wondering on the universal opinion on K Jet, given that spares availability may be tenuous and with other options available, can the K Jet car be kept running reasonably successfully or should I plan on fitting something else if it goes pearshaped?

cheers,

Colin