Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:12:01 -0400 From: "Frosty66" <tigger123nospam0nTheFarm.com> Subject: Re: Ignition cassette failure? (2001 95 2.3T)
Yup, they do die without warning. I found out the hard way...in morning rush hour traffic. You can replace the coils. It takes about 5 minutes work. I put my coils in another old DI that my garage had in its junk pile ( it was originally only firing on 3 plugs) and now I have a spare, or rather, an old spare!! "Hoov" <jhoovennospamter.net> wrote in message news:1116515118.460599.251950nospam2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > > My wife was driving my 2001 95 2.3T (40k miles on it) on the > highway doing around 70mph when the car simply died. No power. This car > is in MINT condition. I bought it used w/ 20k on it about four months > ago. I determined that it is not getting spark by pulling the ignition > casset, puting a plug in it, grounded the plug and turning it over. No > spark. Turns over just fine. I talked with a couple of different Saab > machanics that I know and they both said the same thing. "Your ignition > rack is gone". Well I bought some OBD2 scanning hardware/software and > while the software seems to work, it reports no DTCs. My question s > are: > 1) Would all 4 coil packs go at once? Would it just die mid stride? > > 2)if my ignition cassette has failed, should I expect to see a DTC > comming from the OBD2 scanner? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I would really like to be sure of > the problem before I lay out 500 bucks for a non-returnable part. > > Thanks very much, > John Hooven >
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