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Up until about eight months ago I was driving a VolksWagen Passat, Which(and this will probably get me crucified on this website) is an excellent car, fully equipped, totally reliable, good to drive etc etc. A friend at work who new that I was a bit of a mech head asked me if I wanted his Dad,s old 93 9000CS for a token £200.00, the pros were it was fitted with a brand new six disc CD Changer and had four good alloys and tyres: The cons, it broke down three months previously and none of the family had been able to start it since. I told him straight away that I would take the car with the intention of selling the bits that worked starting with the CD changer and wheels. I looked at it on the Friday night, The check engine light was showing on the insrument panel and it wouldn't start there was a good spark at the plugs, compression was okay,I could hear the fuel pump running, but no vroom. I returned the next day after a visit to my favourite scrap yard were I was lucky enough to find a 9000 which had just been brought in.( this place is only interested in the value of metal and not actual car parts.) I bought a replacement Mass flow meter, idle stabilisation valve, cold start valve, water temp sensor, shaft speed sensor, lambda sensor and ECU for the grand total of £20.00. I took a fully charged spare battery which I keep in my garage just in case and went back to see if I could get the old girl going. I opened the bonnet and thought change the easiest thing first(No Method whatsoever) which looked like the mass flow meter, With that changed the engine coughed a few times and kicked in to life. I drove the car home and got a lift back to collect my Passat. For the next month I worked on the car intending to sell it complete. I changed a front wing touched up some stone chips and other bits and pieces. During this time I was driving the car almost exclusively then it came to the crunch were I had to go back to being a one car family. I swear that morning I phoned up intending to advertise the SAAB for sale When I came off the phone I had advertised the Passat. After five days the Passat was gone to a new owner amid a vale of tears from my wife. So here I am eight months later with SAAB and I,m still not quite sure how it happened. The thing is I work on the car constantly and my wife loves it dearly(I think thats a snob thing), Maybe some budding psychologist can explain why.
posted by 62.249.206...
, Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:33:00
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