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Hi Saabnet friends,
About a week ago my car was lent by my long-time boyfriend to his parents (not really my in-laws, but close). It is a 5-speed 1993 9000 Aero, 145,000 miles. Of course, this car is subject to any number of malfunctions at any time, but when it was lent to them it was in perfect running order and in the two years I've had it, I have had only a few minor problems with it. Today I was informed that about 3 days ago it wouldn't start, it would crank over and over. After much cranking, the battery started to die, so it was given a jump start where it started after some gas pedal pumping. This is just what I was told, remember. Now the check engine and TCS lights are on. This has never happened before. In addition, the shifter has been "dislocated" from its socket, something that has happened before, like each time someone else drives my car, for some reason, which I take to mean that the shifter has been manhandled, as it has never happened when I drive the car. It is a simple thing to fix, if you know how to do it. However, I am 40 miles away from the car, with no means of traveling to see it or pick it up, and the car has been driven like this for the past 3 or 4 days.
How I got into this situation is a long story, but the short of it is that I only use the car for shopping and road trips, and the alternative would have been for them to rent a car for a week and then drive mine the 40 miles to deliver it to me, so it seemed only reasonable for me to let them use it for a week since I had no immediate need for it and it would have been inconvenient and expensive for them to not use it.
Their solution is to take it to the dealer tomorrow morning and get it fixed. My worry is that it will become clear after the fact that this problem would have occured anyway, and that when it comes back from the dealer it will seem very obvious that I should be stuck with the (undoubtedly very high) bill. If the car were here with me, and this had happened while I was driving it, I would sit tight for a little while (and not drive it!!!) and do my homework, since I don't depend on the car as a daily driver, and hopefully get the problem solved at an indie shop for much less than an emergency trip to the dealer would cost. What are the odds that all this would have happened anyway? What should I do here?
Another question: for something that may require some kind of sophisticated diagnostic equipment like the check engine light and the TCS light, it taking it to a "Saab master tech" equivlent to taking it to a dealership?
Thanks for reading this far, and I really appreciate any advice you might have!!
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