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I am so glad that somebody else shares this frustration with me. It seems every Saab I get has a stereo install gone horribly awry, and I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is. c900s have about the most brain-dead factory wiring there is - one plug for speakers, one plug for power - and the easiest-to-use DIN-sized mount on any car I've ever seen. I just can't fathom why every single Saab I get has hacked up wiring and a massacred dash.
My current 92 c900Tc looked like a warzone in the dash area. Wires running everywhere, patches made of speaker wire and more wire nuts than I've ever seen short of the Harbor Freight Variety Pack. When I removed the Pioneer head unit and reinstalled an MP3 player, I yanked out somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 linear feet of wiring in the process. When I saw it sitting there on the ground I scratched my head and said, "What in hell was that all for?"
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The first Saab I ever had I bought a CD player for, and got it "professionally installed" by the kids at the Good Guys. It took them three and a half hours to get me my keys back. A year or so ago, I bought a Saab in Los Angeles, and before heading back stopped by Best Buy to get a new stereo for it - I did NOT wanna make the 7 hour drive back home without some CDs! I brought along sixteen crimp-on butt connectors, a pair of cutters, and a crimper, and installed the CD player in the Best Buy parking lot in 23 minutes. My buddy sat in the passenger seat waiting for the cops to come arrest us for stealing a stereo... :D
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Posts in this Thread:
- new (or not so new) owners poll, chuck s., Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:46:10
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, GreyCabrio, Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:51:58
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, vvack0matic
, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:51:30 - You oughta have to qualify to own these cars n/m, chuck s., Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:33:45
- poor body repair as well, burlybryan, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:18:34
- could have lost an engine with this one, tom-NC, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:07:26
- those are great!! how about this?, chuck s., Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:13:24
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, diskullman, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:13:18
- antifreeze leak...., Brian, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:06:08
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, incorvati
, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:02:07 - Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, Andrey, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:51:43
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, oldsaab, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:47:41
- this one should be original...., nathanael, Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:52:16
- Crappy side molding, Ed F, Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:36:34
- Stereo install.......... Yep, the dredded PO stereo..., dSPG89, Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:20:14
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, Charlie K., Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:25:06
- Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, swede-murphy
, Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:26:25 - Re: new (or not so new) owners poll, SteveD, Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:13:39
- poor body repair, sloopjohnb, Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:14:02
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