SiC's Silver Saab 9-5 2.3t Vector - Gone!

[mrbenn]

Buy it and raffle this one?

[SiC]

I've never thought of that as an option!

 

Would their be much interest for a roffle on this here?

 

With 59 numbers (I think that's how many lotto has?) I guess it'd be like £4 to £5 a ticket or something like that?

 

The irony is that I would be more confident that someone wouldn't have a problem driving this to the other end of the country for a collection, than driving it during rush hour into the centre of Bristol! Motorway she's great, city rush hour not so.

[SiC]

Found this forum post that details how to get access to the valve body on the 9-5:

http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244902#/topics/244902?_k=wkncwu

 

Doesn't look particularly tricky task to do. Just a bit messy with all the oil.

[Kiltox]

Fix first then roffle

[schonker]

Buy it!!!!

[SiC]

My wife really didn't want me to bid until I got rid of this one first. So I didn't.

 

Ended with no bids at a cheap price.

 

So very tempted to make a even lower ball offer and see if he'll bite - despite the trouble it will bring with my wife.

It has an electronic fault which is my favourite type of fault (much more than mechanical problems) but scares most people off!

[Kiltox]

Cheap storage in Cheltenham available for as long as you need to keep it's presence unknown.......

[SiC]

While fixing my interior fan (update will follow on this task when not on mobile...), I leant on the rigid breather pipe and cracked it.

 

 

Utter fuck sticks. Even worse, I'm not sure where the broken bit fell to. The turbo is right below there and I rather not it cause a melting/fire hazard if it's sitting on there.

 

Being rigid pipe, I'm not sure what to replace it with. I don't think large bore fish tank pipe would withstand the heat of the engine bay. A replacement part I suspect won't be that cheap either.

 

Any ideas?

[Barry Cade]

Bit of rubber pipe and a couple of jubilee clips would be fine there...

[SiC]

I just need to find a reasonably priced source of some on a Sunday tomorrow now! Unfortunately in the last clear out I threw out some scrap pipe that would have been perfect.

 

I have some old fuel resistant pipe that came with a crap, cheap Chinese hand petrol pump. However I don't think the pipe is rigid enough to not collapse from the suction

[SiC]

I also broke the recirculation flaps, so they're now stuck closed. Hopefully I've just knocked a linkage off the back of the heater box. Not been a very good fixing day today.

 

On the plus side, after going through the whole procedure of stripping out of the motor and then resistor pack, they turned out all ok. I plugged it together and it bloody well started working.

 

Pretty certain it was a dodgy/dirty contact on the motor spade connectors that caused the no run. I bent them out a bit more to give a better grip and gave it a good spray of electrical contact cleaner.

[twosmoke300]

On the plus side the silver rocker cover means it's a later sludge free Saab engine

[SiC]

Fixed.

 

£6 of 13mm heater hose and 2 jubilee clips from the local motor factor/motor shop. The pipe is quite bent but as it's pretty thick walled it hasn't kinked. Felt like a bodge doing it, but looking at the picture now, it looks a pretty respectable fix.

 

I also ripped the saggy underbonnet sound proofing off. Quite a few of the clips have broken or fallen off. It keeps hitting the top of the bits of the engine and melting on the hotter bits + breaking off bits all over the place. Apparently makes removing it makes a nice turbo swishing noise too. May also help heat build up under the bonnet and screwing up the gearbox.

[Captain Furious]

Awaiting URGENT gearbox update on this

[SiC]

Awaiting URGENT gearbox update on this

I'm awaiting on a rather expensive tool to arrive first so I can do this job properly

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Think we are all waiting for the gearbox update!

 

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[SiC]

What's in the box?

 

Another box!

 

Inside that box?

A big screen thing...

 

...that is so very bright!

 

Ooooo. Diagnostics tools

 

 

Do I unlock some sort of achievement for spending more on a diagnostic tool than what I spent buying the car?!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

ooh!!!!! That looks interesting, tell us more

[SiC]

It's the dealer diagnostics tool for Saabs. Swap the memory card in it around and it can also do dealer stuff on Vauxhalls (upto around 2009), Isuzu, Suzuki and American GM based vehicles.

 

Literally can do everything the dealer can do - because this is the tool they use.

 

Basically the same type of thing that Rovers Techbook is.

[Kiltox]

Does it have pirate memory cards for all those?

[twosmoke300]

I have them !

[Shep Shepherd]

I bought a Tech 2 at the beginning of the year to ease working on the hapless 9-5 2.2 TiD Linear estate I owned at the time. It was really useful when working on that car (for one, it diagnosed that its fuel pump had failed terminally), and since then it has been even more useful when diagnosing faults and adjusting settings on The Aero and my friend's 9-5 2.0t Arc estate.

 

To quote Ferris Bueller: if you have the means, I thoroughly recommend picking one up. 

[Kiltox]

It's got to be a winner because you don't need to arse around setting up dodgy cracked software on a laptop

[5speedracer]

I'm awaiting on a rather expensive tool to arrive first so I can do this job properly

From being nearly dumped 2 weeks ago this Saab appears to be being treated like a wife the week after the mistress dumped you.

 

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[SiC]

Tbh this car is starting to annoy me and I feel like dumping it!

 

Resetting the adaptations made it shift bad to start (expected), then as it warmed up it got progressively better. Then I did some stop+start driving to test it again and it went back to its old clunky self.

 

With the current, ever colder weather the thought of being on my back under a car, scraping my knuckles for a hour or two is not feeling very appealing right now. Add that to the fact that the journey into work on my road bike is getting more dangerous with the very slippy falling leaves and early sunsets.

 

I really could do with a cheap, reliable, small car that I can drive in, squidge into available free street parking and abandon without caring if it gets damaged.

 

I know everyone wants me to get this valve body done, but I'm really loosing the appetite to fiddle and fix the damn thing. Plus after changing it, there still is no guarantee it will work properly. Not only that, I'd also need to buy 2 new rear tyres (2x £40 for ditch finders), gearbox mount (£30) and replace the interior fan (£15 S/H). Which also requires more time fucking around in the cold.

[Kiltox]

I have a Mk6 Fiesta petrol manual you can borrow for as long as you need, just bung me a bit for it's tax

[SiC]

Thanks for the kind offer. Unfortunately the wife has banned me from having more than 3 cars in my possession...

 

I could ignore that of course, but sometimes you need to pick your battles.

 

The easiest solution is for my numbers to come up in the lotto tonight and I win a nice shiney Smart, solving all* my problems.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

How much would it cost in labour to swap the solenoids?

 

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[Bren]

That looks a right piece of kit. Will it show "gearbox fucked"?

[SiC]

It can do, if the gearbox computer is throwing up codes. However it's not. This would typically lead a main dealer to be stumped trying to diagnose it. Therefore they'd revert to their typical "repair" scenario - replace the whole god damn box.

 

In other news, I've been looking at shit small semi auto cars. More practical & economical around the city, but I know will be a painful sitting experience compared to the lush Saab seats. The other half did suggest that I should remove the Saab seats and fit it into the crappy small cars I was looking at. I think she was semi serious too...