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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:22:17 +0100
From: Robert Brown <rxobert.bxrownnopsampnet.se>
Subject: Re: opinion on 99 9-3


mil0 wrote: > I am looking at a 1999 9-3 and was wondering what some others felt about > this car. Anyone have any personal advice about these cars -- good, bad, or > otherwise? Yes, we've had ours for 5 years now. It's a bit of a mixed bag: Plus: * excellent engine (we have the 200 hp variant which performs well when asked to) * very good seats as well as interior room Minus: * a series of problems: head gasket replacement due to incorrect tightening of head bolts during manufacture (many cars got this; a technical bulletin was issued for this problem but we had to pay for the repair anyway); water pump bearing failed at 95000km, aircon compressor failed at 100000km * incompetent dealer network (in Sweden, would you believe) who had us pay for a new turbo, later discovered that our loss of power was instead from a blockage due to a rusted silencer/muffler, then tried to cover up and deny this discovery * cheaply-appointed interior, badly-finished plastic * dreadful front-end body roll when cornering (there are kits that are said to fix this, though) But we still have the car, and for some reason we really like it and want to keep it. Go figure . . . . . . could be that since all (hopefully all) major failure modes have now been catered for (via replacement of water pump, turbo, airconditioning, cylinder head), there isn't anything more that can go wrong with it for another 100000km. Let's hope, touch wood. /Robert

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