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Other things to take on long trips with your C900 ... Posted by RS [Email]  (#15)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from RS) on Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:30:32
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Brake light switch and upper hoses.
I thought I was prepared. Cap, rotor, voltage regulator, tools, belts, etc.
On my way up to Syracuse, after I left Roanoke in the morning, I wondered why I couldn't get boost and couldn't engage the cruise control. When I got into PA, I noticed that the brake lights were on. It's amazing how hot the brake light switch can get when it's been engaged for 3 or 4 hours. Turns out that one of the holder "arms" on the brake light switch had broken, and left the light engaged. As soon as I figured it out, i pulled the connector from the switch. Its darn worrysome being on an interstate w/o brake lights. But the car had boost and cruise control. When I got to Syracuse, I got a new switch and a spare.
On my return trip, I got into the hills of PA and the temp started to rise. I thought it was just the hills. Heh heh. Just south of Frackville, the temp got a few mm from the red line and, as I pulled off to the side of the road, the upper hose let loose. Those handy police call boxes Pennsylvania has on the sides of I-81 are conveniently Out-Of-Service right now.
Y'ever try to get SAAB parts in a small town? (It's a rhetorical question, of course. It's hard enough to get some things in a large city.) It got towed to a very old, small garage in Frackville. The mechanic had a flex hose hanging from the rafters that was *just* the right size. It must have been ordered by mistake. We put it in, tightened it up, and filled the reservoir with coolant (the car had cooled for over an hour by that point.) It held pressure and, after another day-and-a-half of highway driving, there's no evidence of anything foreign (like coolant) in the oil. Amazing!!! You can bet I kept an eye on the temperature the rest of the trip.
You can also bet that the car is getting a complete new set of hoses ordered tomorrow morning.
So ... what's the moral of this story? Do your maintenance religiously (hoses, in this case), be prepared with tools and parts, know your SAAB, and be very lucky where you break down.
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