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Title: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 03 October 2020, 14:18:47
06 9-3 TiD,  65k on the clock, whats not to like
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 03 October 2020, 18:24:47
You just can't help yourself can you...  ;D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 03 October 2020, 18:37:22
06 9-3 TiD,  65k on the clock, whats not to like

It's a baby killing/planet killing derv. ::) ;) :D

Just kidding. ;)
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 03 October 2020, 18:57:49
Cheap tax, 50 ish to the gallon,climate,cruise and most other perks so I think I will smoke it around for a while and bin my old Focus which is my usual daily shutter. The owner paid me more last year to service and cam belt it than he wanted for it so had to be done  :y
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: VXL V6 on 03 October 2020, 19:03:35
Is that a 2.2 or a 1.9?

Have looked at them recently as something to kick around in if the daily fails it's MOT in a big way!
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 03 October 2020, 19:20:31
1.9  120 ponies,goes better than I thought it would, bit flat after my other one though ::)
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 03 October 2020, 19:28:22
It's a bit more reliable than the 16v lump :y
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 03 October 2020, 20:26:03
It's a bit more reliable than the 16v lump :y

So they say,heres hoping they are right :y
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Rangie on 03 October 2020, 22:04:17
There's a seller on eBay I look at quite often as he has some really nice vehicles on sale , a couple of weeks ago he had a very nice one owner Saab convertible a lot of car for very little money, hope your new purchase serves you well.
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 11 October 2020, 09:52:03
Driven it for a week now,its averaged 46mpg over 230 miles and nothing has fallen off yet ;D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Rangie on 11 October 2020, 13:28:06
Driven it for a week now,its averaged 46mpg over 230 miles and nothing has fallen off yet ;D


Can't be bad 😄
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Raeturbo on 11 October 2020, 15:35:21
Got your money back already then ;D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: TheBoy on 11 October 2020, 15:42:15
You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd ;D

Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 11 October 2020, 16:32:56
You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd ;D

Perhaps he believes a Scandi car will pull a leggy blonde scandi girl. :)
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: TheBoy on 11 October 2020, 17:25:41
You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd ;D

Perhaps he believes a Scandi car will pull a leggy blonde scandi girl. :)
I don't think a Scandi Volvo would pull anything other than a blue rinse....
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 11 October 2020, 18:02:35
Or a trailer :D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 11 October 2020, 19:01:56
Or a trailer :D

not the pikey wagon though,it ain't got the right numbers on the weight plate, oddly though the Aero estate can tow it but not sure I would want to with WWD ::)
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: henryd on 11 October 2020, 19:02:44
You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd ;D

Ahem, its starting to look that way :-[
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 11 October 2020, 19:36:34
You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd ;D

Perhaps he believes a Scandi car will pull a leggy blonde scandi girl. :)
I don't think a Scandi Volvo would pull anything other than a blue rinse....

Oi! Volvo's are very roomy and comfortable I'll have you know!  Plenty of room for a flexible leggy blonde Scandi girl!  :y

If only I knew that from first hand experience!  :-\  ::)  ;D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 12 October 2020, 10:25:48
It's a bit more reliable than the 16v lump :y

So they say,heres hoping they are right :y

Yet the 197k miles I put on my 16V lump suggests no real issues with that one either.
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 12 October 2020, 11:06:58
I may be jaded because my early facelift Vectra C 16v 1.9 was a complete dog. It had two inlet manifolds in the six months/25k I owned it (bought at a year old with 10k on it) along with a load of recall/warranty work. It never idled correctly even with the new manifolds. A '58 16v auto did nothing to improve the impression that first one made. Which is why the next three Vectra Cs I bought were all 1.8 petrols... All three of which gave less trouble than that first diesel (over 10x the mileage between them)

The 8v doesn't have swirl flaps and doesn't seem to eat manifolds.
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 12 October 2020, 16:19:57
Mine never had a manifold, it was original, sign of a bit of play in the swirls but nothing terrible.

As for idle, inlet manifold on a diesel can play no part in a lumpy idle  :y
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 12 October 2020, 16:29:35
I think it had been a dealer demonstrator in north east Lundun. Never idled properly and used to soot up the manifold summat rotten.

Being stuffed into a roundabout was the best thing that happened to that pos.  :-X
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 12 October 2020, 17:05:07
I think it had been a dealer demonstrator in north east Lundun. Never idled properly and used to soot up the manifold summat rotten.

Being stuffed into a roundabout was the best thing that happened to that pos.  :-X

Poor idle with high levels of soot hints at an injector issue, sounds like the manifold may have been a symptom rather than cause.

Trouble is the modern engines are way to complex for most techs  :-\
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 12 October 2020, 17:16:31
It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty  :D
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: TheBoy on 12 October 2020, 17:43:40
It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty  :D
Shame it was a dealer warranty. So you were donald ducked before you started
Title: Re: bought another Saab today !
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 12 October 2020, 17:47:46
It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty  :D
Shame it was a dealer warranty. So you were donald ducked before you started
Not quite a Donald as when I found out that the finance manager had lied about the Gap insurance when I wrote it off >:(

Still, she ended up in prison, so what goes around etc...