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Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab
Posted by Shauno [Email] (more from Shauno) on Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:20:10
In Reply to: Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, tweetiedancer, Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:05:24
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About 20 years ago my first car after graduating college was a beautiful but hi mileage 83 900 turbo sedan. Needless to say, I had to learn DIY car repair pretty quickly (Bentley to the rescue), and I can't think of a better car for a youngster to learn on. What would be the equivalent 12 year old car today for someone to learn DIY on? Maybe a 9-5?
Now in those days it was apartment life, so car repair can be a tricky thing, especially in winter. My ball joints (lower perhaps?) needed replacing and I rented the fork to separate it, banging away with the back of an axe. Finally freed it, and called it a day. I guess I thought I had retightened the nut. The next day I decided to move the car....CRRUNNCCHH. Jumped out to find the front wheel angled at 45 degrees and the lower control arm separated. I recall it having a good dent in it from I think where it was stopped by the body of the car. Wish we had digital cameras back then!
No harm done really - I got it all back together after desperately jacking the car up thinking "total destruction". Put another 40k miles before giving it to an Italian friend in the US for a few months...with 230k miles.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, Or.saab, Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:37:54
- Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, Name Left Blank, Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:38:51
- Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, Name Left Blank, Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:32:55
- Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, Cary, Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:13:28
- Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, Simon S, Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:26:48
- Naaa your the winner, SaabStalker
, Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:24:46 - Re: Dumbest thing you've done on your saab, JerseySaab
, Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:50:59
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