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Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?
Posted by dtech (more from dtech) on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:24:30
In Reply to: Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, DW, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:12:16
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Whether it's either a crappy design or a cheap component becomes less important to me, it is how the manufacture addresses these issues which becomes the telling factor, and it utimatley determines how many buyers will return to the brand or look elsewhere.
I recently sat through the sales transaction of an auto from that other Swedish brand, and heard that there turbo failures are very rare, sludging problems not an issue (syn motor oil not required ), timing belt and pulleys that do last over 100k, and of course no one but Saab puts a CD (capacitive discharge) ignition system in their autos, so the ignition is reliable.
The above info was pretty much verified by a very knowledgeable, non sales type resource. Makes ya wonder.
But I own 2 Saabs, 1999 and 2004, both 9-5s. It appears that by 2004 many problems were corrected, including a different (better) brand of turbo. Most everything that failed on the 1999 (and plenty failed) was covered under warranty. But I still am not completely thrilled with the way the mods to the crappy design of the PCV was handled, and I would expect the sludging and problems with turbos would be dealt with in a better fashion by Saab if they really are interested in customer loyalty.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, valerie benson, Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:26:37
- Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, muffin, Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:37:35
- Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, Johnson
, Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:14:42 - Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, TG, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:08:13
- Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, PSB, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:51:01
- Re: Survey: More V-6 or 4 cyl. turbo failures?, albanysaab, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:09:57
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