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If it's not too late - what transmission oil? Posted by John Fitzgerald [Email] (#77) [Profile/Gallery] (more from John Fitzgerald) on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:33:28 In Reply to: 1995 9000 Aero Manual - what transmission oil?, Gary Stottler [Profile/Gallery] , Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:16:20 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I guess I'll go against the crowd.
Here's a link to a post from several years ago: https://www.saabnet.com/tsn/bb/9000/index.html?bID=312781
I highly encourage the regular, non synthetic Castro GTX 10w 40. It 'rescued' the transmission of a 97 CSE I bought three years ago. A very, very balky 3rd gear synchro meant I was rolling the dice on a trans fluid change. PO records showed a change previously, just a year or so before I was test driving it.
So, after I bought it, I did a Castro GTX flush 3x over the course of the next 5,000 miles (the car had about 117k when I bought it). Trans kept getting better and better.
It's now perfect at 147k. My daily driver.
Glad to have you back in the 9k world.
Best of luck.
_______________________________________ John Burlington, Wisc '73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK '80 99 bought new, sold after 20 years/192,000mi '86 9kT picked up at Trollhatten, sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi '87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi '94 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi '95 Aero 146,xxx mi sold '98 CSE 248,xxx mi gave it away '97 Aero 317,xxx mi my daughter’s school car … gave away [we put 300k mi on it] still driving: '97 CSE 170xxx mi 'project car' for myself and my daughters to drive '07 9-3 2.0T 240xxx '08 9-5 191xxx mi my wife's daily driver and a couple of 'non-Saabs': '01 Suburban 201,xxx mi '03 BMW 330 Cic 84,xxx mi '14 Mercedes E350 103,xxx mi
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