Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:41:48 +0100 From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OCnopsamFoot.com> Subject: I've just bought my first Saab
Dear All, As the subject header says, I've just bought my first Saab after fifteen years of loyalty to Citroen. It is a 1989, F-Reg, 9000S 2.0l 5-Dr Saloon, chassis number YS3CC55D8 K1005725, with 152,000 miles on the clock. The interior is immaculate; the engine sounds fine (although it seems to have a long-standing minor oil-leak), and it drives like a dream. I collect it next week, and will be taking it straight to the bodyshop to have the small areas of rust on the door panels and rear quarters sorted out before they become major problems. Every website I have checked suggests that any problems with this model are over and done with by 150k miles, but I can't quite believe that. Is there anything I should be on the lookout for, or am I guaranteed trouble-free motoring for the next 100,000 miles? All advice gratefully received. ATB -- Mike "His wish was to become a historian - not to dig out facts and store them in himself... but to understand them, call the dead back to life and let them speak through him to their descendants. She sometimes wondered who would pay for it and who would heed." - from "Harvest of Stars" by Poul Anderson.