Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:42:30 GMT From: smf-nospamnopsamalias.net (SMF) Subject: Turbo 9-3 questions
Hi, This is the first turbo car I've owned so I'm not too familiar with the mechanics although I do love it. I'm hoping to get a little clarification about what happened... I have the 185 automatic 99 9-3 and now have around 6,000 miles. Late last week I noticed that while going around 70 and giving it a significant amount of throttle I would experience a great loss of power - like it was suffocating for oxygen or stalling/hesitating. I could then easily reproduce this symptom and within a day brought it into the dealer. This would happen when the turbo gauge would swing into the red. The dealer went and replaced the BPC valve that regulates the turbo. Now the original symptom no longer happens but I seem to have a significant loss reduction of power at heavy throttle compared to when it was working "properly" if it ever was. I estimate this to be around 30 percent. The turbo now only reaches to midway on the orange even if floored. The dealer says it may take close to 500 miles before my car relearns to drive properly even though I tend to doubt that it will learn very much at all. I'm wondering if my Saab was actually malfunctioning from the delivery when new. You see, upon sudden acceleration the turbo gauge would always go into the red for a brief second while the car would take off like a rocket. Although I don't really abuse my Saab I never understood why there was a sport setting because it was so very fast it seemed redundant. Now to get any type of performance I need to just keep it on sport but it still isn't nearly as good. The manual seems to say that the turbo shouldn't go into the red except under certain atmosphere conditions and I didn't seem to catch that upon the first reading but now believe that this may unfortunately be the case. I really do miss the pep it had before and at times even thought this was too dangerous to put into any car. So I'm wondering: Was my turbo not functioning properly to begin with? Will my car eventually return to this level of performance in time as the dealer says? Did any harm happen to my car during this time from the malfunction? How the heck do I get it back to how it was? :) Thanks much!
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