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Posted by John A. (more from John A.) on Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:13:23
In Reply to: cloth seats and loaner cars, bryan [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:45:50
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And if it came down to an early 9-5 vs. a 9-3, I'd take the 3. It's more distinguished, fun to drive and, surveys say, a tad more reliable. Depends on how much you use the back seat.
We bought a base 3 dealer/manager car (6K miles). We saved a hunk of depreciation ($22K all-in with auto, leather, sunroof and 5drs with special wheels).
People say dealer cars are abused. There's just as good an argument for saying they are better-maintained. It is unsafe to generalize and much depends on the dealership. Our dealership is small and generally doesn't match Saab for Saab when the cars are in the shop but uses Saabs for demo purposes only. Demo drives are not loaner drives.
One thing on ours: we replaced pads and rotors at 30K miles. It is said you should be able to get two sets of pads per set of rotors. This may tell me that the dealer's people were slamming on the brakes or it may tell me that this is normal for 9-3s. The car is used 90% city driving.
Other than this, NFF (no -serious- faults found and no preponderance of small, annoying things)
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Posts in this Thread:
- cloth seats and loaner cars, bryan , Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:45:50
- Re: cloth seats and loaner cars, ed f, Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:28:50
- Re: cloth seats and loaner cars, Driver, Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:06:11
- Re: cloth seats and loaner cars, dgordon, Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:21:03
- take the leather, John A., Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:13:23 <-- Viewing This Message
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