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I bought a used 2000 9-3SE this summer - it has 90k or so on it, now it is up to 96k or so, and it has had pretty much everything replaced. I timed it perfectly I suppose so that I could catch it when everything on it went. Well done, me.
At this point, I pretty much have a new Saab, in that I have replaced everything (except the DIC, but I have one of those in the trunk, so I am ready).
What things tend to go at 96-100k, and of those, is the transmission one? Because everything else is pretty much brand new, other than the transmission (auto), the turbo, the engine itself (new crank case), the body/interior, and wheels. Really pretty much everything else was changed.
The auto's range switch just was replaced today.
The larger question here is whether or not I need to stop pouring money into this thing and just trade it in on something else - or if I can now get a lot of miles out of this since it has had a Keith Richards-esque blood swap.
A few hundred dollars every few months, I don't mind. A thousand dollars a month (what this is averaging out to), I might as well get a really nice new car.
I told my mechanic today that I was thinking about just trading this in and getting something new - and he looked at me like I was insane (I get that a lot) - since I have basically made this a new car.
He said whatever I can get as a trade in offer from a dealer, he will beat by $300 and happily do it - which makes me think that it is a pretty good sign it is a bad call on my part to trade it in at this point.
My wife really is the one who mostly drives it, and it does about 3 (yess, three) miles a day - not exactly a pounding - but it is all Cambridge driving, and my wife apparently likes to aim for potholes since it seems to perpetually be out of alignment.
I love the car (and loved my previous 9-3SE 2000), but she is convinced it is going to fall apart now and wants an Infiniti FX (for pretty much no reason other than she likes the way it looks).
I just want Saabnet words of wisdom either way.
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