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Metal grinding noise from engine and 8-year warranty
Posted by Eugene [Email] (more from Eugene) on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:40:42
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Hi,
When I started my car on Saturday evening, out of nowhere, the car was making a screaching metal grinding noise from the engine. I was so scared I turned off the engine. I tried to restart the engine to reproduce the noise and it did make the noise but the engine would not turn over and lit up check engine light.
Prior to this incident, the car ran fine w/o any weird noise for about 30K miles after I had the radiator, water pump and power steering pump replaced.
I had to towed the car to the dealer on Sunday and I'm still awaiting the diagnosis. I showed the dealer the 8 year extended warranty letter of oil sludge that I received back in May (good thing I never threw it away), which they were totally unaware of.
My hope is that they replace the engine under this new warranty but my gut feeling is that, based on Saab dealers general practice of "you have to pay for it" attitude, I may have to pay another fortune.
I replaced the DIC couple of months ago as a preemtive measure and replaced w/ the proper NGK spark plugs after 10K miles. I purchased the car at 56K miles and changed oil every 3K miles.
I'm still at a shock that this has happened for the first time in my 18 years of driving.
Has this happened to anyone else here? Has anyone used the recent 8-year sludge warranty and did the dealer honor it?
Thanks for your input.
'99 9-5 2.3lpt
103,700 miles
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