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Well, the Pick-n-Pull trip didn't go as planned Posted by MI-Roger [Email] (#882) [Profile/Gallery] (more from MI-Roger) on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 04:13:01 In Reply to: Re: I received the world's last Black & Parchment seat back today, Bernie [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:48:01 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The car was there, most parts still attached, seats still in the car, battery cables severed. I had the tools with me to strip off battery cable insulation and clamp on my Li-Ion emergency starting battery to power the seat motors. But nothing happened. I tried everything to no avail. All fuses appeared to still be in place. Only one small electrical wiring harness laying on the ground - and it may not have been from this car.
Then I took stock of what items were missing from the car. Ignition switch transponder coil (I thought this was odd), Ignition Module from the engine (I would have been surprised if this high value electronic part was still there), and a number of under dash panels had been removed from the driver's foot well and were laying on the floor. Then it struck me - someone had already salvaged all the high value electronic pieces - including the Body Control Module.
No wonder the seats would not move with 12v DC applied to the car! Five days too late. If I had been there on Monday I may have beat the electronic salvage person and I might have had a seat.
Now for the distressing part. The outside of the car showed no collision damage aside from a very minor parking lot sideswipe on the left rear door. A paper tag wired to the battery cable listed routine service work performed in August of 2016 when the car had 101,000 miles. There was an odd gap between the engine block and transmission case, maybe 1 mm at the bottom and tight at the top. The right side front inner fender was shattered as if someone ripped off the under engine splash shield rather than unscrewing it. So I am guessing engine failure sealed this car's fate. The mechanic got it far enough disassembled to determine the problem and told the owner to sell it for scrap.
The interior was FILTHY, and not with junk yard dirt but with un-caring owner dirt. Fast food bags shoved beneath the seats, floor littered with finger sized dry cereal pieces, one cheap rubber floor mat and no Saab mats, the front passenger seat had a puncture in the cover skin that had been repaired with Goop. I did find thirty cents in the seats!
After trying everything I could to remove a front seat, I finally decided they really weren't in that good of good condition anyway.
So I removed the automatic transmission dipstick, tube, and mounting stud to install on my '08.
$2.99 for the dipstick and $2 to enter the yard. Still a deal!
->Posting last edited on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:48:39.
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