saab guy wrote: > Last night my son called and said he had run out of gas (85 Saab 900s) > and that he would be a few minutes late getting home. This morning I > went back with him to get the car. Since it is fuel injected, he > thought it might have to have something special done to get it to start. > > When we got there, I smelled something burnt but did not say anything. > Tried to start the car a couple of times and it would start but > immediately died. Since we got almost three inches of rain last night, > I thought things might be wet under the hood and popped the hood to > check. > > Upon closer inspection, the air filter assembly had a hole melted in the > side of it! I removed the unit and discovered that the entire assembly > had been damaged and that the air filter was actually ASH! > > JT (my son) swears the car made no strange noises and that he did not > notice anything unusual until the second that it quit. When it quit, he > said the "gas" warning light came on. > > Questions: > 1. WHAT could have caused this ... (mechanical fault ... operator > error..., etc)? > 2. Since he tried repeatedly to start the car (and I tried twice) how > much damage did we likely do to the engine (like maybe allowing ash to > be sucked in through the intake)? > 3. Has this ever happened to anyone else? > 4. Any suggestions on finding a used unit to replace this one? > > The car is perfect, cosmetically, but we just spent almost $1800 because > he bent the shift linkage when he hit a really big curb (also had the > clutch, etc. replace while it was down. > > Any suggestions or advice regarding the care and feeding of this machine > (the Saab... not JT) would be greatly appreciated! > > you can e-mail me at Return to Main Index
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