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Re: 9-5 Posted by B Millar [Email]  (#1109)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from B Millar) on Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:16:19
In Reply to: 9-5, yaofeng, Fri, 9 Jan 2009 03:08:18 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The V6 is definitely not a dirty word over here on the 9-5 board. Unless you say it around a die hard 4-cyl Saab loyalist. I had a 2001 V6 sedan for a few years. I bought it in 2006 as my first car with 159k miles on it for $5k and sold it a couple weeks ago with 184k miles for $3600, still running strong. I spent over $5k fixing stuff on it while I owned it, but I am the first to admit I have major car OCD. I probably could have gotten away with not fixing stuff but I really hate suspensions that clunk and worn engine mounts that make the car jerk and shake. My big ticket shop visits were for a turbo rebuild ($1500) and for a timing belt, all thensioners, serp belt with tensioner, and a transmission mount, which came to another $1500. It left me on the side of the road twice, both the same day because of the CPS, easily fixed, and then it left me in my driveway luckily when the coolant bypass valve decided it had had enough. I liked the car a lot but as I started relying on my car more for school and work I needed something I knew would last, so I just got a 2004 Aero with 30k miles on it.
If you can find a 2004+ 9-5 Arc or Aero it will have the Mitsubishi TD-04 turbo which will last the life of the car, almost guaranteed. Even the early Aeros have the TD-04, but the LPT's and the V6 have the Garrett turbo which (while a couple people on here haven't on problems yet) is a total POS turbo. Probably 90% of them fail before 100k miles.
I started looking in November for an upgrade, and even in the month I was looking the prices on used 9-5's absolutely TANKED. I stole mine for $12,500 and it has leather seats, an amazing stereo, tons of power, auto dimming mirrors, rear park assist, all kinds of goodies, while other people my age go and buy lightly used strip-down Civics or new Nissan Versas and are lucky to find one with air conditioning (probably an exaggeration) and pay the same or more than I did.
So, the moral of my long story is definitely try out a 9-5. You will not be disappointed. Try to find an '04+ Arc, otherwise stick to the V6's in 2003 and older unless you check for sludge on a 4-cyl.
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