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Big Decision: Take the Money or ???? Posted by SaabAficionado [Email] (#758) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SaabAficionado) on Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:21:12 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
My beloved 04 Aero 6 speed 9-3 has tranny trouble: 6th gear is badly damaged. I can engage it but not without a horrible crunch. The car is verrry sweet: only 71K miles and in otherwise perfect shape. All other 5 gears work perfectly (at least as good as this less than completely impressive box gets). Here's the rub: my warranty company will write me a check for just over 3k and give me the car back unfixed. OR, they have a used 50k 6-speed they will send to my indie who will do the labor to install it and they will pay for it. Nobody has ever worked on my cars before and I have a lot of experience replacing trannys, engines, etc, so my inclination is to get the car back and figure it out for myself (probably could get my trans repaired/rebuilt) or replace mine with a later model 5 speed? (heard this is a bolt-in with no other shifter parts, etc. needed) I read in here somebody did that but can't confirm it.
Philip
87 900T
04 9-3 Aero
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