Date: 8 Jun 2005 17:45:41 -0700 From: smaartaassaabrnospaml.com (SmaartAasSaabr) Subject: Re: Buying a used Saab...
I've done two HG's. The first cost me $38 and the second cost $62. Just buy some tools... Cars are made to be driven, simple. Best thing can be done is to drive the car daily on a nice long highway run, ie every morning get in, drive 100km at 145km/h, drive another 100 back I guess, and repeat. Keep the car clean, plus change all the fluids and filtres and the car will quickly depass the 1 000 000km mark and look like new. But if you buy the car brand new, drive it a few 100 km, park it in the driveway, near a tree and wait 15 years there likely won't be much left for you there. Most cars go through a "use period" that looks like this: First 5 years - babied 5-15 years - "used" 15-25 years - sitting in a field, scrapped, sold for under 1000 and driven into the scrapper, etc 25-30 years - fixed, restored, enjoyed in the summer and taken to shows etc. There are exceptions sure. The problem is the vast majority of cars never get to that post-parked stage. Mac Townsend <mactnonospamadcomgraphics.com> wrote in message news:<20050608115927108-0700nospam.dslextreme.com>... > Time does damage. > > Especially cooling system corrosion. if it was parked dry (no coolant at > all) then perhaps the damage is minimal. One fun thing about cooling > system corrosion is a bloewn head gasket, which on a SAAB is going to > cost about $2000 to fix (odds are you will need to find another head > that's not warped, since there's no meat on them to machine them flat > again (common to all OHC designs) plus all of the related stuff. > > I thought I was getting a good deal on the 93 I bought 3 months ago for > 1400. Now I know the speedo had been disconnected (when? dunno), I had > to spend $2300 for head gasket repair (incl a head), nearly a grand for > resolving a wierd ignition problem, etc. > > If I had known beforehand, I'd not have it today. Even so, I do enjoy > driving it.
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