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(This is a copy of a post I'd sent to the Turbo! list in response to a note that was sent there.)
Thanks, Chad: I didn't mention in my post of last pm that (a) the rear (tail gate) window was totally smashed by something a week ago. We have no neighbors and we're .3-mile off the road; the dogs would have set up a ruckus had someone come up the drive. My secret hunch is that something fell from a plane. Honest. Anyway, there was glass all over the rear compartment until the glass person installed a new piece and vacuumed up the shards. (b) I had an app't at K&N, the indy shop in Ann Arbor where I've gone for about 13 years. Some strategically aimed punches (from the fist of the tech) and my trying to actuate the latch w/ the remote led to success and the decklid opened. He removed the inside panel and the latch assembly and found more (and more) little pieces of glass, especially inside the latch which is conveniently riveted shut. We took tirns shaking it and banging it on a bench and managed to dislodge all of the little pieces that were intererfering with proper operation of the latch. He left the inside panel off to see how it works over the period of a week or so.
Also, he repaired the wiring that had been mouse-chewed under the access plate for the fuel pump under the rear set in the center of the car. (Just lift up the circular piece of carpet and the plate is right there.) I had seen mouse nests in the engine compartment before, but never in the fuel pump wire region. The nesting material I took out was larger than a grapefruit! When I had some SID/pixel work done, the fuel gauge would work + the DTE reading in the SID was missing after it was completed. It was just coincidence that the mice were active at the time of the SID repair. I had simply spliced the broken wire and all was OK for a temporary fix. One more thing, there's a Saab-sanctioned minor modification in the fuel pump plate region in the form of a little bracket that can be easily screwed in that keeps two sets of wires apart. It's a little u-shaped steel piece and costs $5.10.
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