Saab 9-3 turbo

[garethj]

A bloke at work has offered me a year 2000 convertible with luxurious black coachwork and a slightly mouldy interior. It was taken off the road last year because the MoT required headlamps and foglamps that weren’t cracked, brake discs that were made of thick metal not thin rust, that kind of thing.

 

Are these worth anything, easy to sell on?

Anywhere good (cheap) to get parts from?

Any expensive faults I should look for?

 

I’m guessing that if it polishes up ok and it’s got an MoT, it should find a ready buyer this summer?

 

The buying price is right.

[Cavcraft]

GSF/Europarts for the bits, or a Saab specialist.

 

Manual boxes have (I believe) that soppy slave cylinder in gearbox arrangement which is great fun/expense when they leak.

 

Price wise they don't seem to fetch much money that I've seen. I'd been considering one but they don't seem especially easy to get rid of and as said don't seem to make decent money for what they are. There are far better qualified people on here than me when it comes to Saabs though so don't take the above as gospel.

[revolting peasant]

[Guest]

Cheap & stylish, what is not to like about these?

[rhetorical]

 

*Resists cheap 'Cavalier in drag' comment*

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Don't SAAB turbos of that era suffer from horrible oil sludging issues?

[ayd]

Don't SAAB turbos of that era suffer from horrible oil sludging issues?

 

apparently so, my 9-5 had to have a new turbo for oil starvation to the turbo for this reason, whent he sump was dropped the oil strianer was chocked with sludge.

 

The mechanic who looks after mine (yes I'm lazy) is ex Saab and says it's because the oil pick up pipe is far to close to the bottom of the sump.

 

Other than that I'd have another Saab tomorrow, the most relaible car I've ever owned (thats cursed it)

 

Only other thing to be aware of is the power steering, had a weep from mine for a while and it turned out to be a pipe, not just any old pipe though but a pre formed pipe that is a bugger to change, a common issue, and also hard to get hold of.

Managed to get a 2nd hand one fromt he bay for around £125 as Saab had a 3 month waiting list for em. Only mentioning this as it happened to me and again is 'supposed' to be a common issue.

 

I'd say buy it...love my Saab/vauxhall

[tooSavvy]

Sidestep...observation

 

Are all 9000s going Direct to Crusher, DO collect £200

 

had one - LPT2.0CD - Luxobargeissness parexcellence...and $h*t off $hovel

 

old and a bit knakkie, now, will 18/22MPG really kill them all off....sad

 

tooSavvy

[DCLane]

The place to ask is the UK Saabs forum.

 

Are they worth anything - yes, particularly since they're the post-98 version so they're less jelly-like and the bulkhead issue's fixed.

 

As above, watch the clutch slave cylinder and oil sludging.

 

Price - I'd give £250

 

UK Saabs would say £1500-2000 for an MOT'd one.

[tonedepear]

You see them up on uks for 4 figures but in reality no one seems to want them. Mine struggled to see 500 quid a couple of years back with a good bit of t&t, new clutch, plenty history, stage 2 tuned (but tidy and not chavved up, standard wheels, etc). No sling issues AFAIK, that only seemed to affect 9-5s. Good car, but thirsty and not desirable. Bulkhead separation is the killer, and not that easy to spot.

[garethj]

Thanks, kids. Unless there's someone here that wants one, I'll tell him I'm not interested. Something that could be tricky to diagnose with expensive parts doesn't sound great. Especially as I'm not interested in them particularly.