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I drove for a year with misfire codes and an occasional CEL - it always self cleared after one or two drive cycles. The reason was I don't fully believe Saab's predictive SW is always accurate, this is on my 2004 and it's the 3rd DIC in 100k miles - not very impressive from a reliability standpoint, in fact compared to most any other modern auto ignition system it's abysmal. On 1999 the original DIC was replaced under warranty at around 50k miles, the replacement was still going strong when I sold the car at 170k miles - but the 1999 models didn't have Saab's NSTA mandated recall and bubble gum patch SW fix.
And just so you know the DIC is fully capable and does fail without any predictive warning - any ignition system can but as it so happens the Saab DIC is more prone because of it's multiple points of failure.
Basically it's an inherently unreliable design something that never should have been put in a modern automobile.
Posts in this Thread:
- Just bought a 2017 Subaru Outback, JerseySaab , Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:31:07
- How is it on the highway?, Cary, Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:17:18
- Subaru just dropped six places in CR reliability rankings., Norm9-5, Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:38:44
- I've never paid much attention to CU, JerseySaab , Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:48:34
- Consumers reports is pretty much trash..., Snowmobile , Mon, 28 Nov 2016 07:15:02
- Dude...., DE , Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:25:43
- really?, Snowmobile , Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:29:43
- Re: really?, cheaptech , Fri, 2 Dec 2016 09:25:57
- Re: really?, cheaptech , Fri, 2 Dec 2016 09:14:02 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: really?, JerseySaab , Fri, 2 Dec 2016 05:48:53
- Re: Dude...., cheaptech , Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:55:12
- Subaru is growing too fast, says others including CR. NR, Norm9-5, Tue, 29 Nov 2016 04:30:36
- FHI has stepped in on Subaru's quality side. NR, Norm9-5, Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:12:27
- Re: Subaru just dropped six places in CR reliability rankings., cheaptech , Fri, 25 Nov 2016 05:41:10
- Congratulations!, No Snaab, Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:33:34
- Re: Congratulations!, AdamSAAB2kAero , Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:15:31
- Thanks!, JerseySaab , Wed, 23 Nov 2016 07:33:10
- Re: Thanks!, Railhead , Tue, 29 Nov 2016 01:20:11
- Re: Thanks!, JerseySaab , Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:09:33
- Axles, No Snaab, Thu, 1 Dec 2016 16:02:23
- Re: Thanks!, No Snaab, Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:13:53
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