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1993 Saab 900 - Help - need advice!!!
Posted by Laura [Email] (more from Laura) on Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:48:30
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Okay - here's the skinny: After the Sept. 11th tragedy, Southwest Florida had the added damage of Tropical Storm Gabrielle. Trees were down all over the place and there was much flooding. My Saab that I love dearly had to drive through two very deep puddles (to the bottoms of the doors at least) to escape to higher areas. I had to gun the engine to make sure I got through these flood areas and not stall out in the middle as many other cars did. Here's the problem - soon after this (a couple days maybe) my car starts making noise - a vibration noise upon acceleration - (no shaking, just a high pitched whirring noise). You can hear it really in third gear and higher. (Obviously, my car's a manual transmission). I don't know if the puddle driving is related to the high pitched whirring noise, but thought I would mention it because of it's proximity to the start of the problem.
I took my dearly beloved Saab to my mechanic. They says it's a bad gear box and I need a whole new transmission - $2500. To me, it kind of seemed like a bad inner driver again - which they replaced in the past year - it was the same kind of sound, in the same kind of place, but the shaking with acceleration wasn't there.
So my question is for those with tons of Saab knowledge, does this sound right? I can't afford a new transmission! It must be said though that my car has 128,000 miles though. Please, if you have any opinions, I would love to hear them. And thank you!
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Posts in this Thread:
- 1993 Saab 900 - Help - need advice!!!, Laura, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:48:30 <-- Viewing This Message
- Start with this tomorrow., GregD, Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:48:23
- A bad "throw out bearing"..., FGP, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:58:07
- advice, Kevin K
, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:23:37 - Re: 1993 Saab 900 - Help - need advice!!!, Laura, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:05:44
- Have them drain the oil once and check how much>>, Anders, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:46:50
- If it dies, it DIES., jwr, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:24:37
- Classic symptom of bad pinion bearing..and the more, Tcar, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:24:13
- Not that I'm an expert, but ..., jwr, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:55:15
- Since you don't have the vibration this time>>>>, Anders, Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:48:09
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