Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:28:05 -0400 From: "the dude" <cyberfamnopsamulink.com> Subject: 89 saab 900 S please help me!
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_017E_01BFAF9C.66789240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable first let me say im so pleased to have found this newsgroup! now for my = dilemma, my 89 900 saab (16 v non turbo) seems to be extremely = tempermental. the engine at times runs like a top and accelerates = properly. other times the engine light stays lit for short time periods = and acceleration is dismal. i have exchanged the air mass meter and this = has only seemed to reduce the regularity of the problem. points to = consider: this lack of engine "whoomph" seems tied into air temperature = (hot days=3D poor performance) and fuel tank level (less than half tank = of gas=3D poor performance) also, once the engine light is lit, reducing = rpms to 2500 then slowly accelerating back to 3000 turns the engine = light off. short of taking my car in for saab service, what can i do to = try to fix this annoying problem? ------=_NextPart_000_017E_01BFAF9C.66789240 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>first let me say im so pleased to have found this = newsgroup!=20 now for my dilemma, my 89 900 saab (16 v non turbo) seems to be = extremely=20 tempermental. the engine at times runs like a top and accelerates = properly.=20 other times the engine light stays lit for short time periods and = acceleration=20 is dismal. i have exchanged the air mass meter and this has only seemed = to=20 reduce the regularity of the problem. points to consider: this = lack of=20 engine "whoomph" seems tied into air temperature (hot days=3D poor = performance)=20 and fuel tank level (less than half tank of gas=3D poor performance) = also, once=20 the engine light is lit, reducing rpms to 2500 then slowly accelerating = back to=20 3000 turns the engine light off. short of taking my car in for saab = service,=20 what can i do to try to fix this annoying = problem?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_017E_01BFAF9C.66789240--