SID in '02 9-3

Apr 17, 2005 6 Replies
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From discussions, it seems the SID in 9-3s, even later years, has a long and venerable tradition of losing pixels (of which there aren't too many). The SID in my car now is occasionally missing a column of pixels. What I am wondering is:



(1) Since it seems such a common issue, is it even worth fixing? I mean, if it's simplya flawed design, then I don't see the point in going through the ritual of fixing it every 2 years. (2) Do they fix the SID, or just replace it? (3) Is this just the start, and more and more pixels will disappear and make the display unreadable?



Thanks for insights!



...pablo


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It's difficult to tell what the real failure rate is on these things by looking at online forums - you only get to hear about the ones that fail. The most you can say is that it's the most common SID failure mode. My guess is that you'd be unlucky to have two units fail on you.

There are a few "fixes" published on the web, so you can try those for a start. Other than that, you need to decide if it's worth the money to get all your pixels back.

SAAB probably build new ones, but they're expensive. I got mine from here:-

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These are recon units. I paid them GBP232 for it, but they give a refund of GBP38 if you send the old SID back. Then you need to get it programmed for your car. I paid a local independent SAAB specialist GBP20 for that. One plus point is that the new unit will be a SID2, even if your old one was only a SID1.

Once it's started, it'll probably get slowly worse. I replaced mine when about 7 or 8 columns were coming and going. The final straw was when some segments of the clock display also died so I couldn't tell what the time was.

Cheers,

Colin.

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Thanks a bunch, Colin, very useful advice and info for me.

...pablo

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hi there here are 2 sites explaining how to fix the gulty column on the SID.... issues are commun between 9-5 and 9-3, I had 2 columns off and used the "iron" method... on the 9-3 you can extract the SID with 2 credit cards that will not damage the the plastic surround.

See

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these are olny workaround solutions that may not work...

Pascal B

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It is not difficult at all. The failure rate is 100%

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That's not a failure rate.

Cheers,

Colin.

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