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Don't believe the mechanic
Posted by Hingle McCringleberry (more from Hingle McCringleberry) on Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:35:04
In Reply to: Dead Saab, Price Clatterbuck, Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:41:05
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1) Trusting a Chrysler mechanic in buttcrack-ville Nebraska's opinion on a 1997 Saab?? BAD IDEA.
2) I have seen exactly 2 heads die on a 9000 in my life. One overheated so badly it cracked, and the other lost the timing chain, and smacked the valves with the pistons. Heads on 9000's don't "blow".
Chrysler guy probably just wants your son to drive off in a new Dart and hasn't the foggiest idea what happened to the 9000; just scaring him and making it sound bad.
Get ANYONE with foreign car experience to look at it, or at the very least, post here what the symptoms are that he's seeing. "My sons car died." doesn't help a lot. Was it overheating? Did it happen all of a sudden? Is it blowing smoke? Does it even run still?
It could be a hundred things. Simplest could be a DI cassette or fuel pump. Worst case would be head gasket or timing chain.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Dead Saab, Price Clatterbuck, Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:41:05
- Re: Dead Saab, T. Christopher, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:30:16
- Don't believe the mechanic, Hingle McCringleberry, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:35:04 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Don't believe the mechanic, ELaw
, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:44:17- Didn't look elsewhere for similar stories, Hingle McCringleberry, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:29:51
- Sorry!, ELaw , Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:32:04
- How could we know?, RayF, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:07:24
- mechanic is probably right, Noel, Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:39:20
- Look in the mechanics list..., Simon S, Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:48:11
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