Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:55:14 -0500 From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.com> Subject: Re: 900 Automatic gearbox failure
A replacement transmission in the US is $1795 from http://www.saabsite.com/900new/900&94to98transmission.htm. Although shipping to Santiago would be rather expensive, you would still have considerable savings over the quoted price even assuming that the labor and shipping would each be $1000. Too bad you can't get the car to Switzerland (or somewhere else in the EU) where repairs would undoubtedly be less expensive. Too bad I can't get a cool job like yours that would let me relocate to all those interesting places ;-). Walt Kienzle "Oliver Arnold" <ollyarnoldnopsamwin.ch> wrote in message news:3db3245b$1_4nopsam.bluewin.ch... > I was getting "check gearbox" at cold start on my '97 900 SE Turbo Auto. I > could bi-pass this by shifting very rapidly to "D", and for the rest of the > day everything was fine. Automotriz Nordica (the only Saab dealer in > Santiago de Chile, from whom I bought the car) say that the problem will get > worse and that the only solution is to replace the gearbox (cost approx. US$ > 8,000). My job has moved to Switzerland, my car remains unsold in Santiago. > Any comments? Seems a drastic and expensive solution to what I thought was > a minor problem. > Olly Arnold > >
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