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Congratulations on your "new" 95 wagon - one of the great individualist's cars of the world!
"- cool Saab 3 spoke steering wheel with cracking leather and aluminum center. Is this special?"
Sounds like a Monte Carlo steering wheel to me - check under the cracked leather to see if the rim of the wheel is wood. My guess is that someone covered the wood with a leather cover. If it is wood, it probably came from a Monte Carlo sedan, and yes, it is special, at least I think so. If the rim is wood, I recommend taking the leather cover off and refinishing the wood - sand it down slightly and apply several coats of marine varnish or polyurthane varnish. Let it dry really well before reinstalling it.
" - factory AC, disconnected. Compressor is in the trunk, but the Saab Koolaire dash panels are all there. I may pull 'em - thoughts?"
I bought a '72 96 V4 once that had air conditioning. There's probably a reason that yours is disconnected, and that reason is power, or lack of it when the AC is connected and running. The V4 engine only has 75 or so HP, and when the AC compressor kicks on, the engine really bogs down! If you're going up a hill when the compressor kicks on, the car WILL slow down. The AC system was used only in the U.S. so that SAAB dealers could say that the car was available with AC to those customers who wanted it. I personally thought that the AC robbed the engine of so much power that it was probably overloading the engine and shortening its life, so I yanked all the AC components out of my 96 - it probably lightened the weight of the car by at least 100 pounds! Don't know where you live, but if you can possibly do without AC, I would remove it - your V4 engine will love you for it! I never believed that the AC system put on the 95s and 96s in the U.S. was something the original Swedish designers and engineers would have approved of.
Good luck and have fun with your 95!!!!
posted by 65.204...
, Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:50:49
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