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More on the DI Cassette matter...
Posted by Brianc14b [Email] (more from Brianc14b) on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:19:29
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I had a DI failure a week ago, at 10PM, just hours after bringing my newborn daughter and wife home from the hospital.
My SAAB is a 9-3 with exactly 55,516 miles on it (oh lucky me, 5,516 miles over the warranty) when the DI went out at 35 MPH on a heavily-traveled thoroughfare.
Trust me, you don't want to be stranded in that situation (or any situation, for that matter, but I digress).
After forking over $1200+ to Mike Shaw SAAB in Denver, I wish that I'd known about this site before (actually, I did know about it, but had rarely visited) and I can tell you that for $300, I will seriously consider carrying a spare and will learn how to install it.
Beyond that, you can see that a dealership took me to cleaners. I can also assure anyone reading this that I will not be returning to Mike Shaw SAAB, or any other dealership, for that matter.
Now these Consumer Reports ratings are all well and good, but who's to know whether failures in the ignition system are actually 2.5%, 9%, or 85% for that matter?
Consider how many of these cars have been manufactured that are now out there in the past 3-5 years. Even a 2.5% failure rate is pretty high.
But the fact is, if your SAAB's DI cassette gives up the ghost, then your personal DI cassette failure rate is not 2.5%, or 9%, it's 100% !
1 DI CASSETTE / 1 FAILURE = 100%.
For $300, you can bet that I plan on carrying a spare from now on. Heck, the towing alone cost
$175!!
Forewarned is forearmed.
Brianc14b
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Posts in this Thread:
- More on the DI Cassette matter..., Brianc14b, Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:19:29 <-- Viewing This Message
- You got cleaned alright. This must be a new record?, SWEDECAR
, Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:53:50 - Congrats on the newborn and . . ., jc, Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:10:14
- Re: Small claims court ?, STICKMAN, Mon, 5 Apr 2004 07:53:42
- first..., Mattias.se, Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:46:05
- Congrats on the new kid n/m, JimF, Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:13:20
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