2004 9-5 changes, yet again...

Just stick a green transparent plastic cover over the display - or wear sunglasses.

Groan!

You could clean the car more frequently and use Scotchguard, and foot mats.

Lots, and I wouldn't have called back either. You could just do over the seats with black shoe dye then polish the seat leather with black boot polish.....

and will result in a car that looks bitsy and is worth less than it was before you started modifying it. You should re-spray the body too, to get away from that horrible gray (silver?)

So don't be a slave to an unrealisable task. You could spend many thousands and still have an unsatisfactory result.

Yes, if you can, but why not just sell the car and buy another with the colours you want?

PS If you hate the colours so much, why did you buy the car in the first place?

--=20 Regards, Peter Wilkins

Peter Wilkins wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Wow. Thanks so much for the useful advice.

I must have missed that fist time round. It would be pretty easy to change the colour on my 2001 9-3 SID. Yours may well be the same. The LCD panel is clear and the illumination is white. The orange colour comes from a piece of orange plastic between the bulbs and the display. Finding a suitable bit of plastic in your favorite shade would be the most difficult part.

How about leaving a tin of paint in the car and then parking it in a desert until the tin explodes. I'm sure the insurance company would be sympathetic...

Cheers,

Colin.

May have been sarcastic .... but. My single line would have been instead of spending a lot of money modifying the car, take the money and exchange for a car you would rather have. Whatever the loss you make it may not be that large (it may not even be a loss) if you are considering buying brand new saab parts to redo the inside of the car. Carpets linings, door panels, seats and whatever else it has.

The dealer probably does not want to know ... not becuase they make enough money (they can always make more) ... but because once the work is carried out they see it as a certainty that you might complain. Also , how serious do you appear to the dealer in wanting this done. It will cost them a lot of time to price all the parts (and the labour is another story. This kind of alteration is more common to body shops than dealers (unless in oz saab dealers combine with bodyshops ... not common in the UK).

IMHO look for another car. One you know the price to change ... the picture will be clearer.

Regards Charles

Probably really easy actually.

Buy some of the colour filter that's used in theatre lighting. There's a vast range of colours.

Graham

You could all so get the interior painted the colour that you like, Here in Perth Aust there is a mobile guy that does it, looks very good when finished there maybe someone similar where you live