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Re: How good is the 2.3 liter 9-5 engine? Any awards? Compared to v6 Posted by SaabTech [Email]  (#181) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from SaabTech) on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:38:43
In Reply to: How good is the 2.3 liter 9-5 engine? Any awards? Compared to v6, Vince, Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:57:16 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
V6 winning awards? hmmm it must be from the same people that awarded the Audi 100LS as car of the year back in the mid 70's The American public took a beating on that boy.
Any motor that has a rubber timing belt that's 9 miles long with a battery of bends, turns, idlers, tensioner and gears AND would make the Great Harry H. cuss on replacement or if it breaks, it will mostly destroy the motor ... The intake manifold has to come off to replace the rear spark plugs or thermostat. A thermostat that cost well over $50.00 ... on and on...
If you people talked to the people I have in the last several years ... on their V6 motor and the 5 - $10,000 it took to fix it.
Had a case a couple of months ago where a V6 owner called and needed a water pump. I couldnt get to it any time soon and said try the dealer. Two days later, the owner called and said his wife picked up the car and on the way home ..WAM, the belt broke. The water pump sits right in the center of the timing belt.
Lets hear it from V6 owners. Those that have had problems bailed from the car, company and this list.
The Volvo b21 - b230 motors use a rubber timing belt. In te last 15 years I have done plenty of them. Every once in a while one will get towed back in several days later with a no start. On examination it seems the belt slipped several teeth. I take it apart AGAIN and examine. No worn gears, tensioner is good and the belt looks perfect. I install a new belt and send it on its way with no future problems. Let that happen on a V6 Opel motor and see what happens. The way I look at it, you have a expensive Italian detuned sports car motor with GM metal in it.
Good Luck to those that own them.
The 2.0L Saab motor is probally the best gas motor ever made.
Tom Townsend
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