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Hello mark!
First of all, are you saying that you have an 88 CRALSON and you don't even KNOW IT? :)
Those are one of the rarest saabs around, and i'd give ANYTHING to own one myself!
I'm going to have to ask you if it is for sale? i'm interested...
anyways... to help you with your BIG decision...
I first got into saabs when i saw a 1988 900S white 4 door on a drive through Vermont. It was pretty cheap, and i needed a car, and it looked great, so i bought it on the spot after a test drive of course.
At this point, i knew nothing at all about saabs, their reputation, or their performance capabilities.
I LOVED this car to death though, just LOVED it. I'd gotten to drive many of my parents cars, friends cars, and i had owned a 1979 VW BUS and a 1986 toyota corolla myself, and this one was just the best thing i had ever driven...
of course, it was short lived, when it crashed (long story) but the point i'd like to make about that was, at high speeds with 5 people in the car, NO ONE was hurt. It was my first major accident, and i was pretty shaken by it... i cringed when i thought of what would have happened had i been driving ANY OTHER car i had ever driven... i know that we would have been seriously injured, if not killed, in another type of auto.
SO i decided i need to buy another saab, and i'll probably be a saab owner for life. I tried to get a 900 turbo convertible... but there were none locally at the time, so i was stuck with a 1990 9000 turbo.
I had intentions of souping it up from the moment i bought it.
Fast forward to NOW... i'm thousands of dollars into the car, and it's only getting older... i wish i had bought something else...
check my link to my website to see what i have now...
After thinking a lot about what i COULD have bought for the money i spent... i've come up with a short list of what i'drather own...
AERO AERO AERO
there, pretty short list eh?
I'f you're going to buy a mid to late 90's 9000, get an aero... period.
If you've got performance modications in mind, then that's the best place to start with.
Whatever 9000 you get, make sure it's trionic, but ABSOLUTELY DO NOT buy a car with TCS (traction control system) it will only cost you $$$ to fix that crappy TCS system.
A trionic contolled saab 9000 has MUCH MUCH more tuning capabilities than the car i drive now, and i wish i had one... it'd make performance modifying SOO much easier.
moving on... with the purchase of saab from GM in the early 90's... GM added a special type on ob board diagnostic system to the 9000's...
that's just what it's called OBD. There was an OBD 1 system, and then an OBD 2 system... which was added after 1996.
If you have an OBD2 system car, you can buy a cheap code scanner on ebay, and diagnose the engine fault codes in your own driveway! NO NEED FOR A DEALERSHIP to do it.
You can also use the OBD2 sensor in some cases to program you OWN ecu!
So...
If i had to buy another 9000 tomorrow... i know that i would be buying a 9000 aero post 1996...
that would be my dream car, and i've spent over $10,000 on this already...
you can ask other people for their opinions too... but that's MY two cents
-gavin
posted by 69.169.238...
, Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:12:21
, Wed, 25 Aug 2004 05:14:24
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