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Re: End of the road? Saab 900 for parts options
Posted by EDZ (more from EDZ) on Sun, 4 May 2003 17:47:25
In Reply to: End of the road? Saab 900 for parts options, Chris, Sun, 4 May 2003 16:59:58
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Your car is far too young to be cannibalized for parts! First, it is probably worth considerably more than $500. But even if it were worth only $500, if you fixed it you would have a far better car than you would probably get for $500 (hint -- people don't sell cars at that price unless something serious is wrong). One problem, even a frustrating one, shouldn't be a death sentence for the car. And the fact that it won't start at all now is an advantage -- it's a lot easier to diagnose that than an intermittent problem. And once you fix it, then you're back to the 'trusty' SAAB you had before, after all. :-)
True story from last summer: my '84 had 188K miles on it, and I was driving through a remote part of Nebraska when the engine suddenly died. Started up, went five miles, died again. Finally got it home, and no one could find a problem. It had the same symptom a few weeks later, and then I was getting nervous about driving the thing at all. Finally it gave out and wouldn't restart. At that point (after a tow -- thanks, AAA!) the problem was diagnosed as the Hall sensor in the distributor. The new distributor was expensive but I replaced it because I now knew what the problem was, and that the fix would cure it! Since then I've taken the car on a 2000 mile trip and will do another starting next week.
Of course, over the years I've put much more money into the car than it's worth, but replacing the car wouldn't be any cheaper since if I bought a car for $2K it would cost just as much to keep running.
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