Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:55:31 -0400 From: Malt_Hound <""Malt_Hound\"nospamm-me not*yahoo.com"> Subject: Re: SAAB Quality Since GM?
ma_twain wrote: > > > Malt_Hound wrote: > >> Steve Wade wrote: >> >>> "> >>> >>>> Not a particular good example. The 9-5 also has chain-driven >>>> cam-shafts. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> This seems to suggest that at least one core value is still intact - >>> which >>> is nice to know.. >> >> >> >> Timing chain is a core value? Why so lazy people don't have to do >> maintenance and their engine will not self destruct? I suppose >> Ferrari has no core values either because they use those reprehensible >> timing belts in their inferior engine designs? > > > > Perhaps you enjoy spending $1,000 every 30,000 miles just to replace a > timing belt It does not cost that much on any SAAB for just the timing belt replacement. You exaggerate by a factor of 2, and the last I heard, the first 3 belts are covered under the warranty so all you have to do is drag your car into the stealership on time. > and much more if it breaks while the engine is running - I > don't. Yes, more if you don't change the belts, but if you do they are pretty darn unlikely to fail between those changes unless you have some other untended problems, like oil leaking on the belt. Now consider this: The same type of poor maintenance practices by owners that cause belts to go unchanged and break are also the reason that timing chains will go tits up at around 100k miles (sometimes even less) with the same damage to the top end. Even if they don't let it go to the point of breaking, a timing chain replacement (which seems to be required on even well maintained SAABs after an average of 110-120k miles) is a far more expensive proposition that the timing belt replacement and is *not* covered under any warranty that I am aware of. > I have a V6 GM 900, but I bought it as a 'sacrificial' car for > amy daughter to learn to drive in, and I suspect it will acquire many > dents and scratches before long once she starts. > > As for using Ferrari as an example - why don't you tell us what > maintenance intervals are for the Ferrari? I heard a rumor, and I will > qualify it as a rumor, that the engine needs an overhaul every 3,000 > miles. You're right, it is just a rumor, and a silly one at that. Perhaps they are talking about oil changes, but even those are at 10k miles on modern ones. The major service interval is 30k miles. That's when the belt gets changed. You can verify that on Ferrari's web site if you wish. -- -Fred W Toys for sale, Hey get your toys here: <http://users.adelphia.net/~fredwills/>
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