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Crankcase Vent TSB ("Blue Smoke")
Posted by McMike [Email] (more from McMike) on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:05:34
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I'm shopping for a 2001 9-3 base model. I went to Sherman Oaks Saab here in SoCal to look at one last weekend and noticed the blue smoke coming out of the tailpipe at startup.
Asked the dealer about it and she said that it's normal in a turbo car. I own an older Saab with a turbo and have never seen this phenomenon.
Looking up "blue smoke" in the boards here I see all the threads about the crankcase vent modification.
I'm no longer looking at that particular car, but I am still shopping for an '01 9-3. If I buy one which doesn't exhibit the "blue smoke on startup" phenomenon, do I still need to have the kit installed as a precaution?
If I buy one which DOES have the phenomenon and pay to have the kit installed, do I also automatically have to replace the turbo, like a couple other posters on the board here have had to do?
The TSB says that Saab is only to install it upon customer "complaint". Is that complaint that there's blue smoke or that there's a crankcase leak? If it's the blue smoke does that automatically mean it's too late for the turbo and that it'll have to be replaced?
How should I treat this re: buying a used car?
TIA.
-- McMike
'85 Rose Quartz Metallic/Bokhara Red 900 Turbo 3-door 159K miles
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