Date: 01 Aug 2002 23:55:12 GMT From: msu1049321nopsamcom (MSu1049321) Subject: Re: Looking to buy a classic 900
My 88 900 was great the first ten years, then it started to go all to hell at once. It was never garage kept, and stood blizzards and midwestern heatwaves well. They run a long time, but when they break, it's always expensive. Just about the last straw was a bill for fixing the windshield wipers last year... in American cars, the wipers usually are individually powered by small electric motors, and if one dies, you pop in a new one, no biggie. Not Saab, no, it has one motore and a complicated series of cams, arms, and cables. For what they charged me in parts and labor for the Saab wipers (about 400 dollars), the parts must be forged by the norse gods themselves and flown over by Thor and his mighty cartoon hammer. My 88 also had a number of fit and finish problems, which the dealership would neither acknowledge nor fix. They blamed the clouded, then steadilly blackening chrome window trim on the ozone hole, ( less than 6 months old) they wouldn't look at the dashboard and glove box skins that bubbled and cracked like a lepers' sores. The foam covering the front window pillars didn't reach all the way to the headliner. The badges kept falling off the exterior. The whores replaced my muffler under warranty with a half-price aftermarket one, but billed trollhatten for an OEM part. The last seven years she had leaked oil like the Exxon valdez, from the compressor and the transmission case. The dealer said it was a gasket where most cars have an oil pan, but they said in Saabs, the tranny IIS the oil pan, and step one for replacing the gasket is "remove engine". Yike! true or not, I've had it, and in the last ten years American cars have come a long way closer to the style, performance, and durability of the Saab, and so, I'm going with a car that won't drive me to the poorhouse.
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