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I am a Saab tech and I changed oil on a new 9/3 today and the threaded portion of the drain plug stripped as I was backing it out of the pan. It appears that there may be a problem with the threaded insert(helicoil) being installed improperly in the pan which in turn causes the insert to tear up the drain plug when backing out.
So if you strip the plug threads off when you change oil it may not be your fault.
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