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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:28:20 GMT
From: wilkinspnopsamnet.au (Peter Wilkins)
Subject: Re: Just got my SAAB 9-5 wagon


On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 08:35:11 GMT, patriknopsamisulven.se (Patrik Sjöberg) wrote : >During our summer vacation we drove about 1700 km and getting >back to work has made the odometer (is it the right word?, been away >from proper english for some time :-)) tick up to 3450 km. > >During the our vacation we where 3 adults and a small child and we >had a rooftop box stuffed full as well. No problems at all, the car >used up 93liters/100km. An acceptable value since the car was full >and the ACC had to work hard, it was 30 degrees celsius on the outside >:-) Hope that's really 9point3! > >Now that i've driven the car some more without the box and not >full it is down to 85/100km, it's still hot here in sweden so the ACC >still works hard. and 8point5! Best I have got was 6.5 l/100km on a freeway run of about 200Km at 110km/hr on cruise control from Goulburn to Picton (which is mostly downhill as Goulburn is at 2000+ m and Picton close to sea level) Around Sydney I get 9-10 l/100km depending on traffic. > >There has only been two small glitches with the car so far. It has a >slight dendency to stear to the right when you let go of the weel >and the ACC has "rebooted" aprox 3 times. The symptoms have >been that the car has been parked in the sun, you drive of and the >ACC goes on full and then after aprox 2-3 minutes it shuts down >showing what i belive to be an error code 0,1,22 on the display >and after 20 seconds it starts again. No biggies and i will have >the garage look at both of the problems when its time for my >first service. > >I am very pleased with the car and it still turns heads alltough there >has been a large increase in SAAB 9-5 wagons where i live. > Sounds as if they have fixed all the problems i had with my 98 9-5 SE sedan. -- Regards, Peter Wilkins (wilkinspnopsamnet.au)

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