Dave1980

Morning All

Thinking of changing cars come tax rebate time in April and fancied a Saab 93 for ages now. The 2.2TTid model to be precise as it has plenty of poke.

Any saab owners on here that can give me some pointers of what to look out for when buying one?.

Also anyone know anything of the future of Saab?, cant see them totally dissapearing if the Chinese were interested. On the plus side though it does mean i can pick one up for less .

Be a shame to see them totally dissapear.

Luan Pra bang

They generally ok some weird maf issue can pop up on occasion but reliable cars.

mart360

MAF & MAP are biggest issues for TiD 9-3 saabs
Sid units fail - £50 for a repair
Headlamp wiper units fail - £75 per side for a replacememt
(Just pull the fuse and leave not working)


Plus side - Chain driven engines

- side - Nothing major, but lots of niggles

Audio - all in one system - basic at best - MP3 input (although a head unit fix can be applied)

OBDII compliancy -
Everthing needs a good OBDII reader to get to CEL codes etc... TechII is the oem unit (£1000!) Basic ones from ebay dont work!
ELM27 works, will read and reset all opcodes but will not read live data or oem specific stuff - see below

Aux heater - disabled by default - needs a TECHII session to enable
Budget (£50) dealer (£23 indy)

Oil - odd spec from GM 5-30 semi synth so most use 5-40 fully which is a tad pricy

Lots of fixings are torx head, so you need loads of new sockets / spamnners etc due to limited clearance


Mart

The Pink Ninja

iTrader: (23)

We've got an MY06 93 estate vector sport, nice motor with all the toys, not had any issues apart form a glow plug that went faulty, this is the 2nd Saab we have had, just make sure you get one with a decent history with it and you shouldn't go wrong

Dave1980

Thanks for that, sure it cant be worse than my current french work shed so fingers crossed.

Roll on april now then.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I'd be cautious.

Had a 9-5 in a during summer last year needing a new windcsreen (cracked - failed MOT).

Could we get one? Could we f**k....on "back order" was the excuse. Car had to be laid up for a month until we managed to find one.

ChrisB

AFAIK...

A 2.2 TiD is chain driven but the 1.9 TiD (the Fiat/GM engine shared with Vectras, Alfas etc) is belt drive. Watch out for the water pump siezing on the 1.9, taking the cambelt with it and the ensuing carnage that can cause.

The people who ran Saab GB have setup Saab Parts now (AutoTrader). Saab Parts AB is outside Saab Automobile AB and is still supplying parts. Some of the new / nearly cars that were in stock are UK are starting to be cleared.

Mike-K

Most parts were on backorder due to saab not paying their suppliers. No new saab's were made from April last year. The twin turbo is a lovely car to drive. Some of the early ones had plastic swirl flaps in the inlet manifold that were breaking and causing internal damage to the engine. If the turbos fail I think they are around £2k to replace. Usual egr faults Road tax is very cheap too. Some are nil!
If you do get one I have tech2 with the saab and Vauxhall software.

+Doc+

Parts have doubled in price, be warned.

Jamescsti

Probably easily written off then. I speak as a previous mg owner so I know how these things go.

rickya

iTrader: (18)

Dont !! My bro in law has had nothing but problems with his 05 plate 95. Almost every part has been replaced!!

Leslie

Are Saab able to stay in business. I heard they were goping bankrupt.

Thay always made decent cars and good aircraft. It would be a shame if they went to the wall.

Les

alloy

Filed for bankruptcy in Dec

Luan Pra bang

I have had a couple, one 2.2 with 140k and one 1.9 with 289k, the one with 289k I sold to a friend who did 35k miles in a year with no problems and the 140k one had 2 maf related issues in a year and is still going fine now. I would rate those 2 cars as the most reliable high mileage cars I have every owned bar the 1989 golf diesel with 500k on the clock that I drove to Estonia.

The Trooper 1815

iTrader: (31)

The local SAAB Dealer did not re-open after the New Tear hols. "Sorry we are closed".