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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:54:22 -0500
From: cs <cobsnospamnet>
Subject: Re: 94 Saab Aero 9000- how to baby it?


Honestly, I think babying these cars makes them frail. I have a '94 9k CSE I bought on ebay, that has been terrible, needing all kinds of shit. Then I still have my baby, my '88 9K T which I bought new. It did have to have the transmission replaced within the 1st 2 years, and sits in my drive needing another trans at this moment w/ ~175k miles on the odometer. I put in a factory supplied chip a month or so after I bought the car (bumped up the output to 175 bhp, plus kicks the turbo in a little over 2200 rpm), new Biltstein shocks and springs on at ~ 90k, and have had to have the clutch slave cylinder replaced, plus wheel bearings (twice) (I think those had something to do with the 16" accessory wheels), and replaced the ABS pump, and the exhaust system.. There are rust spots on the doors (never, ever Ziebart - the rust spots are where they drilled), cracked leather seats, cracked leather on the arm rest, a non-functional passenger window. Other than that, the car is still tight as hell, in fact the Saab tech told me a couple years ago that the car was in better mechanical shape than most of the 3 year old cars coming in for service. Why? MHO is that other than frequent oil, fluid and filter changes, I always ran that car hard, in fact the 1st 5 years I had it, I had a go-card which let me get away with driving as fast as I liked in my state, and I did. I ran up to the state capital once while it still had the 30 day tag on it, chasing an Alfa 164 at 125 MPH. I drive relatively sedately around Yet every time I got on the expressway (practically daily) I''d crack a 100 MPH. And while my '94 CSE can get away from me from a dead stop, it can't get away for long. On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:00:09 -0500, "Virgil Caine" <voolivoolipapanospamail.com> wrote: >I have had atleast about 100 problems with this car from 60K miles to 130K >miles now. >After replacing transmission, turbo, breaks, tires, one wheel bearing, >muffler and what have you, it is coming home tomorrow. I dont want to spend >this kind of money anymore. I like the way it drives and want to keep the >car (hence i spent the money). How do i baby the car? Suggestions Please!! >

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