Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:20:43 -0500 From: "KP" <perlovnospaml.com> Subject: Re: Replaced turbo on 9-5 - still smokes
Yeah, SAAB's reputation is at risk. My service manager is a nice guy, but I would doubt that there is any skilled personnel at the dealership to back him up. My experience with them is a year of constant nightmare: 07/04 took it for 60k service - diagnosed with bad turbo 09/04 got $1000 assistance from SAAB and replaced the turbo 09/04 3000 miles later the SAAB was still smoking. Diagnosed that it was PCV, replaced PCV check valve and oil trap. 11/04 2000 miles later still smokes. Diagnosed that the turbo went bad (~7000 miles, nice!), replaced it free. Since then smoke never went completely away, but it was smoking less. 5/05 I am at 77k miles and the smoke is increasing (I think that it was just warm weather though - in the winter it blue smoke was concealed by the steam coming out of the tailpipe). Took it to the dealer last week and replaced the turbo again - surprise still smokes :-) 78,000 miles - running on a 4th turbo charger including the original one! Cheap novel, huh? "Dexter J" <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> wrote in message news:opsry14vjtngtaownospam.eastlink.ca... > Salutations: > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:42:52 -0500, KP <perlovnospaml.com> wrote: >> >> Anyone replaced turbo charger on '01 9-5 SE? For how long have you had >> smoke >> on startups after that? I put ~300 miles and it still gives a cloud of >> smoke >> when I start. >> >> My dealer told me that after turbo replacement I'll see some smoke cause >> there is oil trapped in the intercooler. They told me that it might take >> for >> up to 4000 miles to get all that oil out. Sounds not very realistic to >> me. >> Any experience with that? > > You know, if you ask me, the dealer chain has done more harm to the SAAB > brand than anything the board room jockey's at GM Corp. ever could. I luv > my local sales guy and parts counter staff - but the service manager(s) > seem to be from another planet and all seem to come up with the same sort > of nonsense when I still took my car there for work. > > No - your car should not be smoking at start up unless they didn't clean > out the inter cooler and throttle body and it probably isn't that anyway - > bet you have a lot of oil in the exhaust system if it really let go. They > needed to open the exhaust behind the Cat, remove some hangers and let it > gravity drain while they waited for parts. > > If it is in the inter cooler - you need to get the system apart and clean > it out before that much oil starts to varnish up in the system - lots of > stuff in there doesn't like oil coating to any depth. > > -- > > Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day > Bill Monroe - Blue Moon of Kentucky > http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/009.RAM > > all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads > no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time
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