Needs a /bit/ of work but cheap enough for it to only need to last a few days.
Suffers from the usual worn engine mounts and dicky TB (drive by wire) which will hopefully be sorted tomorrow
All for the same price as the cheapest bike halfords had which i nearly bought instead
Next up is a 164 v6 i think...
Pretty much standard par for the course. If that is sorted prepare for the coil pack cartridge (D.I cartridge) to go, they tend to go at arround 100k ish. Quite often, regular owners replace the current one early, and keep it in the boot as a spare, because the new ones don't last as long as the originals. They then swap it over if they still have the car when the new one fails, and get a new one ASAP.
Currently on 155k so will have a look at the bundle of invoices to see whats been replaced
Found and fixed a major mount problem, much much better now!
It may be fixed for now but you created a fine spot where it will rust as hell.
Why didn't you just buy or make another bracket?
The more I am confronted with the "English" way of repairs, maintenance and restauration, the more I see things done for today that will scrapped tomorrow. I would be very surprised if the weld is clean or that the underside of the bracket is welded too.
Any car I inspect and I see such repairs, that particular car isn't a car anymore but a parts-carrier.
Tom De Moor
Well, looks like that bit won't break again in a hurry.
Good job.
Post corrected :)
TBH the car's worth tuppence, so I can see why Chet wouldn't GAF. OTOH bodgery does seem to be a bit of a national pastime and I like things
*right*.
Because the car cost 120 euro and its main purpose was to the trashed around a field, as it happens its actually quite driveable so has been spared for at least a few days
Coil pack replaced at 130k :)
Excellent. That is the big job apart from bushes and fly by wire throttle that goes on them.
The TCS models can be a pain because the car into limp home, but that is related to the fly by wire anyway.
From the receipts it was very well looked after until it fell into cheap car territory
Throttle issue is proving difficult to sort as its not displaying the traditional symptoms so a fix/bodge isn't so easy to find
Whats the best technical saab website/forum?
must have been thrashed wihin an inch of it's life for that to break....
Nice one!
I got quite alot of bodging done today
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