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If no rust, buy it! Posted by Notnoel [Email] (#23) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Notnoel) on Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:05:37 In Reply to: Re: Buying a 1991 900 - advice please!, Saabina [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:19:25 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
A car that looks that nice is now commanding a price of $8-10,000. Check the forward axle tunnels, inside the wheel wells, rear passenger floor areas (this is a convertible drainage issue if the drains get plugged), and at the base of the doors.
As noted above, the second major issue is the transmission. These autoboxes generally fail around 140-150K miles, so you are living on borrowed time. A manual swap is not that hard, and even if you paid someone to do it and installed a fully rebuilt unit, you'd be looking at $5k and that'd just bring the cost up to market. Do it yourself with a fully rebuilt unit for about $3K, or a used junkyard unit for $1500. That autobox is going to die soon - no doubt about it.
The last issue is the ABS, they can be a PITA and the pressure accumulators are hard to come by, but this is not a deal breaker. You can "downgrade" to the 1979-1986 Power booster unit and run new rear brake lines and never worry about it again. That'd run you about $300-400.
All in all, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat if it has no serious rust issues. It looks like a steal.
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