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SAAB, are you listening? Posted by ChuckD [Email]  (#2127) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from ChuckD) on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:49:23
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2002 SAAB 9-5 Aero m/t
2001 SAAB9-3SE auto
Up front, let me just say that I've been fascinated by SAABs since I was a teenager in the seventies. My first live-in girlfriend drove a 96 with a freewheel, my first SAAB was in the eighties and we're now a two SAAB family (plus I'm a member here and I wear my decals proudly)(and I'm wearing my SAABNET pullover as I write this). There, that's out of the way. I'm a glutton for punishment.
Yesterday was a nice day as my family and I drove an hour and a half to visit my brother and his wife for dinner. Sadly it was marred by some really poorly thought out design decisions on SAAB's part.
As soon as we entered the interstate we all noticed that the parking assist started beeping. Something which should only happen in reverse, and if sensing an obstacle. My theory is that the spray from the wet roads was setting it off. I also noticed the cruise control no longer engaged and the rear view mirror no longer auto-dimmed.
I know what all this means because I've made this repair three times previously. Arriving at my brother's house he lent me the necessary tools and I pulled the trunk liner to expose the wiring harness and repaired the wires that had been partially cut from chafing the trunk framework. After the third time fixing this I thought I'd wrapped enough tape to better protect these but they'd found another place to be cut.
And lucky for me it wasn't like the second time when the trunk lid solonoid was deactivated. And since there's NO way to get into the trunk without that, save crawling through the back seat, that's what I did...in the Home Depot parking lot.
This comes two weeks after I pulled the SID and made the recommended repair with a clothes iron when the display became completely unreadable. This would be the second SID, the first having been replaced under warranty. I then did the same to my wife's SID, her second as well. BTW, the clothes iron solution works great! (sigh).
I don't expect replies to this, it's only my venting over what I hope are the kinds of things SAAB is addressing. I am aware that SAAB wartches this foreum and I hope this message from a dedicated SAAB consumer catches some notice. I'll probably buy another SAAB at some point because I think their lineage is a remarkable one and worth sticking with. My wife though will probably be looking at a Honda hybrid, or something.
And please don't get me going on the rear alignment and cupped tires issue. Or the fascist sound system...
ChuckD
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