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Re: Reliability?
Posted by spiv (more from spiv) on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:19:10
In Reply to: Reliability?, MichaelG, Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:25:25
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Basically it's a very simple car, not much more complex than, say, a lawn tractor -- so once you get it to the point that everything works, it tends to keep working. The main exception would be the electrics -- there tend to be lots of nuisance problems with bulbs not working and such, mostly because of bad ground connections (fiberglass body means almost every circuit requires a separate ground wire.) You never have power steering problems because there IS no power steering... you never have trouble with the brake booster because there IS no brake booster... ditto the power seats, climate control system, fuel injection, etc., etc.
The flip sides are overall condition and finding repair people. Precisely BECAUSE they were able to stagger on for amazing periods of time while enduring abuse, there tend to be a lot of abused ones out there. Having them worked on isn't terribly expensive because of their simplicity, but finding someone good who CAN work on them -- not to mention finding parts -- isn't quite as easy as on a later model. The message boards and mailing lists help a lot, but unless you live in one of the nation's "Saab belts" (upstate NY and Washington/Oregon seem to be the heaviest concentrations) you might be a long way from an experienced vintage-Saab mechanic. That's why a lot of us wind up learning to do at least some of our own repairs.
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