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Painting the rub strips just means you have to touch them up when they do their job, that is, preventing the door paint from getting scratched when some other less attentive driver opens their door into yours.
AFAIK, Saab did this as a stopgap, since it was way too costly to retool the door skins, and the new 9-5 did away with all rub strips, like most modern cars.
I'm not a fan of a lot of the changes on the 2006-1009 9-5. Many of them reek of "copycat" changes. Take the taillights. Since 1980, Saab's taillights on the body and the taillights on the hatch/trunk (on the same car...) were the same height. Somewhere in the late 90s the Germans started with having the taillight section on the trunk be shorter than on the body (and usually this was by adding a section on the trunk that wasn't there before, like on the Z3). When Saab got around to refreshing the 9-5, they went down this road. Why? Just to look like the Germans? It certainly didn't look any more "Swedish"...
Painted door handles, painted mouldings, it's all copycat stuff. What happened to the originality and differentiation of brands?
Oh, then there were the 9-3s that got Impala door handles at the end...
And don't get me started on the Saturn radio and instruments... While performance wise, the radio in the late 9-5s and 9-3s was probably the best ever in a Saab from the factory, the whole idea that it doesn't look any different whether you are in a Saturn, a Chevy, a Buick or a Saab really cheesed me off.
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Posts in this Thread:
- painted bumper/door strips, Val W, Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:28:27
- Big Fan did it pic enclosed, Jas, Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:06:40
- big fan of this update, tarheel, Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:48:10
- I'm not a fan., B Millar
, Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:56:41- Nor I..., Larry West , Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:19:34 <-- Viewing This Message
- me neither..., Snowmobile , Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:54:09
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