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Re: DI cassettes (and other common issues)
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Posted by PM (more from PM) on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:20:08 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: DI cassettes, Anupam, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:45:24
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(can't post as "Peter" any more, someone else using that name)

The 9-3 inherited some issues from the NG900 series, I do not know why GM did not fix them in later models. I have a lot of respect for GM quality control if not necessarily for their design.

As far as I know, these are common NG900 problems that are found in the 9-3 as well:

- SID display failure (missing pixels/columns on the display)
- Serpentine belt and pulleys (9-3 has only one idler pulley, but the tensioner pulley is small, plastic with a similar bearing, and subject to the same type of failure)
- DI cassette (the part is different, but it is the same poor design, and fails more randomly in the 9-3)
- Loose head bolts (Saab has a service bulletin advising retightening of head bolts going back to 1994 production cars, bulletin no. 210_1714_utg2, available as a PDF file on a number of web sites)
- Crank case ventilation system, valve cover leaks, check valve, engine sludge... now covered by an extended engine warranty from Saab
- Fuel pump, too early to tell if the 9-3 will have the same failures, I hope not
- Rear brake calipers rusting and seizing in states using road salt (I believe the latest models have a different caliper)
- Front O2 sensor failures at less than 100k miles (they should last 100k minimum). The front one fails due to fouling with oil from leaking turbo seals. I finally had someone explain that to me, because I could not understand why the sensor before the cat converter fails so often, and the one after it almost never.

As for CEL codes, I finally got frustrated and bought an OBDII reader so I can read them out myself and keep track.

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