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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:56:40 +0100
From: "Eirik Johannessen" <eggi-jnopsamne.no>
Subject: Re: Shifting Problem in 2K 9-3
That would be best.
I've had some Mercedes-people driving my Saab 9-3 and they nearly broke the
whole stick while trying to get it in reverse. The reverse on some
Mercedes-models is located past 1st.
If you explain them on forehand, most people don't have difficulties... But
I don't know your neighbor so...
"Brian Greene" <Delinquent1nopsamdnet.att.net> skrev i melding
news:NybT5.2737$eU.175019nopsamsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> This issue had been addressed earlier last month. It was regarding a
> problem with Saab 9-3 manual transmissions not shifting correctly. I
found
> the problem. Last night, I had my neighbor start my car while I was
> installing a sport exhaust. I asked him to take it out of reverse, let
off
> the clutch and give it a few revs and then proceeded to explain to him
that
> the car has to be in reverse to get the key back out of the ignition. Bad
> Mistake. Like every other non-Saab person I've ever met, he tried jamming
> the stick into reverse. I told him about the button underneath the shift
> knob and instead of pushing the button in with his fingers, he decided to
> pull up on the whole shift boot and then jam it into reverse. This is
where
> the problem began. All of a sudden, the only gears I could get into were
> 1st and 3rd. I slipped into 2nd somehow and had to limp home (In second)
> because I couldn't get out. Just on the verge of calling Saab road
> assistance, I noticed that the stick had some freeplay up and down. In
> other words, you could pull the stick up about 3 inches...it was not in
any
> kind of 'socket'. Then it hit me. I did the opposite of what my dumbass
> neighbor had done. I pushed the stick down (it had an unnatural tendency
to
> spring up), held the button in and shifted into reverse. That was it,
> nothing more. Problem solved.
>
> I'll never let anyone behind the wheel of my Saab again.
>
> Brian
>
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> delinquent1nopsamdnet.att.net
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