Date: 6 Feb 1998 23:08:02 GMT From: "Tune" <tunenopsamcod.net> Subject: Re: Bigtime SAAB group advice needed
Take the $3000 and buy a car that screws, handles ( I was flipped in a SAAB, although not the driver) and will not tap your plastic monthly equal to a car payment! Park the shitbox and buy a car with structural integrity, not something "engineered"! Adrienne Johnstone <aj8cnopsamy.edschool.Virginia.EDU> wrote in article <6b9vkj$27p$1nopsamoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>... > As a fellow lover of the SAAB (I have an 84' 900 2 dr), I > understand what you're going through. I continue to make > repairs: exhaust system, ball joints, wheel bearing, emergency > brake, frozen brake caliper, front brakes, CV joint (and that's all > in the last year) and somehow still love the car that takes so > much of my money. My suggestion would be to a)make as many of > the less complicated repairs yourself and sink some money into > the rest - I think SAABs require that you drop a lot of money at once > but then they go on and on for a while after that or b)take > that $3000 and buy another used SAAB in better shape. Best of > luck. > > aj in va > -- > aj8cnopsamy.edschool.virginia.edu > > the original LMW >