Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:09:28 +0100 From: Johannes H Andersen <johsnopsamsafish.com> Subject: Re: Is the 150,000 mile service at the dealership worth it?
Nutmegger wrote: > > Johannes H Andersen says... > > >> >Eventually you sell the car to an informed > >> >enthusiast who doesn't mind fixing it. > >> > >> If you are lucky! I needed the money when I sold the SPG, and it happened to be > >> an 18 year old who had it trashed within a year. > >> > > > >Well, what can you expect. The youth probably liked a turn > >of speed > > Wouldn't you know, I ran into him recently. He blew the tranny twice trying to > catch third. > > >and didn't really have the money to keep the car > >in order. > > Daddy does it for him, he doesn't care. > > >But never mind, once the car it sold that's it. > > Yeah, I know - but I love my cars! > Her name was "Sabrina" > Uhu. A car is just a piece of metal. You just get used to it. It is only when you get into another that you realize how good the Saab really is. > >> >Am I being philosophical? > >> > >> Nah! > >> > > > >In 1987 I bought a spanking new Fiat Croma, just out of the > >showroom. Not a bad car although the interior plastics didn't > >match the Saab's by any stretch of imagination. The dashboard > >would warp such that part of the speedo was covered. Replaced > >under warranty just to find that the replacement dashboard > >did exactly the same, so I gave up complaining. > > You gave up complaining about a warped dash?! > Wow. I can attest to the plastics Saab has used (don't know about now) I > parked in a parking lot for years, finally got a garage last year. The dash > looks as good as new, not even one hairline crack. > Well, I couldn't go on complaining forever, could I? The car did the job. The most annoying thing was a rattle which lasted for two years. Again FIAT could do nothing about it. They even sprayed the dashboard with some disgusting sticking oil in the hope that it would dampen the rattle! I had to clean it off. > >The car did > >well for 10 years until I sold it because I had bought the > >Saab. Since that FIAT was galvanized, it was still in good > >shape when I sold it, a nice roomy and clean car. > > Fiat and roomy in the same sentence? > Did you have a photo or a link? > Yes, really. The Croma is a sister car to the 9000. Although shorter boot, the interior space was just the same. > >The proceeds > >from the sale £1100 just covered the first repair of the Saab > >plus a meal. Believe me, that was hard to swallow. > > Heh-heh......I can see why, hope the meal was more than fast food too. > Sic transit gloria mondi... Johannes
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