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I bought a 1990 900S last year because it was highly recommended and beautifully maintained. I have since spent thousands of dollars on it and am ready to ship it back to Sweden to be melted down at the SAAB factory. Here's a partial list of things that have occurred in 1 yr:
1. struts/tires/muffler/paint - all understandable and the price of admission
2. Tranny "end-cup" replacement following shimmy in 4th and 5th under load. Apparently there are 2 such cups and the other one now needs replacement.
3. Fuel pump replacement (yikes!!! $400 for parts alone!)
4. Seized wiper mechanism (yikes! $300)
5. 1 broken belt broke the other 2 and 1 of them cut "a very hard to replace" cooling hose (yiikes! $600).
6. brakes need replacing as car currently slews to right when applied forcefully (who knows$$$$$)
7. suspension bushings need replacing (who knows$$$$)
8. A/C unit "chirp" and sounds expensive
9. radio needs re-soldering and re-jigging
10. zillions of odds and ends ("while you're fixing the tranny can you look at these 3 things too pls?)
Is this typical of this make???
Peter
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Posts in this Thread:
- SAAB from Hell., Peter
, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:19:07 <-- Viewing This Message- Re: SAAB from Hell., 90SPG, Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:42:39
- Service from Hell?, Dan W, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 21:08:27
- Re: SAAB from Hell., Jan N., Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:41:29
- it's a 12 year old car..., Scott Paterson
, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:14:20 - Re: SAAB from Hello there dream project car., MS, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:54:59
- Re: SAAB in Hell - long long, burlyb, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:05:56
- Can't believe you didn't get brand new 11 year old car., Kaiser, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:05:41
- Re: SAAB from Hell., Tom's 89 900s, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:56:29
- Re: SAAB from Hell., KeithG, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:53:39
- Mechanic from hell. $600 for hose & belts?!?!?!?, RS
, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:47:01 - It may be SAAB from Hell for you,, Yaofeng, Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:43:30
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