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I love the Mira and Mercury examples! Thats right up my stradale. The rally version looks very similar to a Solido model.

You can just pull them off with your hands without having to remove anything.

The Falkirk registration on the light blue one probably explains why it has received so many fails and advisories for corrosion!

Cyclone Sid on You Tube has an excellent video on how to sort it, that's how I did mine. I got a used blower from a guy who is local to me and breaks Saabs, mainly 9-3s. It was quite straightforward as it is just behind the glovebox.

Thats quite a list. Heater blower will just be a symptom of a blocked scuttle drain. Water then overflows into the passenger footwell via the pollen filter and drips on the heater blower, seizes the bearing and burns our the motor. The good news is that a new blower is about £50 new or less from a breaker and the whole lot is easily sorted, if a bit fiddly.

The caliper came today, it was dry outside and I had a few free hours in the afternoon and evening so I cracked on. Horrible job tbh. I've done a few calipers but this one was very awkward. For a start, the only spanner size I don't have is an 18 and guess what the caliper carriers are held on by? A quick dash to Halfords netted an offset ring 18 and a combination 18 as well. Although almost everything bar the carrier is aluminium, all the bolts were incredibly tight and hard to access. I had to use a scissor jack under the spanner to get some leverage as my breaker bar would not get near the carrier bolts. Got there eventually though: You can see that the rear seal of the piston has been pissing out fluid. Cheerio New one on: Comes with a new handbrake motor Theres a bit of a procedure surrounding all of this. First, you need to put the car in 'jacking mode' so the air suspension stays level when one corner is raised. Next, you need to wind back the handbrake motors via the scanner. Before fitting the new caliper, you need to remove the handbrake motor to access the torx fitting which allows you to wind the piston in with the pads fitted until they just touch the disc in no more. Next, after bleeding the caliper, you need to reset the parking brake with the scanner, before finally turning off jacking mode via the MMI menu. The brakes on this car aren't very good and the pedal has never been that sharp. The car rewarded my toil by throwing up a brake pad warning. There was at least 6 or 7 mm left on them so they were reused but obviously that's not good enough😅 I think it needs new pads all round but fuck that for today. At least I can drive it again when I come back from my holiday.

Amazing!

The options are on the bill of sale, you will know what those are without me even telling you though! I believe the wheels were a very expensive option.

Nothing wrong with nerdiness, thanks for confirming as I forgot the English name for the colour. I know all the colours for Fords from 1981, that's even more nerdy 😂

There's a queue I'm afraid Yes quite a long one!

Bouyed by this successful fix I gave it a wash and discovered that the OSR rear brake caliper is pissing fluid. New one seems to just be £94 and comes with a motor too. My code reader does the caliper windback as well so not so bad. I'll just have to use the Saab for a bit until it arrives!

Cheers Ronnie! I think our cars are indeed the same colour!

Sorted. A folded up bit of paper on top of the battery to press it down more has worked 😂

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I replaced the battery in my key a few weeks ago. Today the car would not recognise the key, it no longer locks/unlocks and I have to put the key in the ignition to start it (which sometimes does not work either) I'm also getting a message saying the key battery is low. So I replaced with the correct CR2032, Energiser brand with absolutely no difference at all. The key is stone dead with no green flashes when a button is pressed. I checked the owners manual but couldn't see a key reset procedure. I'm very patient with old cars and expect problems but this one's frustrating as I can't really chance driving anywhere at the moment. I was in a garage that my relationship did not end well with (but my mum still wants to use them) and I could not get the car to start at all as nothing was happening even when turning the key in the ignition. Very embarrassing. Hopefully I'll find a solution soon!