Category: Saab 900 II & 9-3 I Forum

Hello ! I’m absolutely new here in the forum and not sure if this topic has been set correctly. Therefore here again a 2nd attempt (please for indulgence). I’m interested in a SAAB 900 SE convertible. Does anyone have experience with this model ? I’m interested in durability/repair vulnerability/consumption and other possible defects. Can you buy a 95’er with approx. 90-100000 km for approx. 10000,- Euro, or is this not recommended or too expensive ? Also for a recommendation concerning years of construction/motorization and still tolerable mileage would be very nice. A short-term feedback would be really very nice. Of course also a favorable offer can be sent, if available 😉 Thank you in advance by a (still) SAAB-unknown.

Saab 93 Tid – buy or fingers off? Good morning Saab community and happy new year 🙂 I had to return my beloved company car, Audi A4 TDI 130. If I could have bought it for 16,900€, but that was too expensive for me and he had already 125,000km down. Now I need a car ! 🙂 At the Saab dealer on site they offered me a SAAB 93 2.2 TID. EZL June 2001, 46,000km, check booklet, with climate and aluminum. To cost 14,000€ and has 1 year warranty. Measured at the Audi b I come here an equally old car in the same class, with about the same engine power and about a third of the driving power on the counter. Super bargain seen that way. If I search the internet now, I find many problem cases with this car and now wonder if this would actually be a good purchase (air mass meter, huge oil thirst, start problems, noise from 130km/h upwards etc),, Or at SAAB only the few people with problems manifest themselves and the satisfied people. ??? compared to BMW and Mercedes forums in which I read many of the posts with praise hymns (“My BMW is the greatest”, “Is there something better than Merceds”, etc… 😉 ) I find in the SAAB forums actually almost only problem cases,,,,, I like the 93 and moreover it is not as uniform as A4, BMW 3er etc…… Would I pay this individuality however with problems every day ???????? looking forward to feedback from SAAB 93 TID drivers !! Nice weekend ! e forget: all how many KM are the maintenance intervals due ? DC

Hello everyone! For a long time I was looking for the retrofitting of an original radio after an SID for my 900/II. Now I finally could buy on ebay of one. However, there is a minimal problem: My 900 is an ordinary i, was not delivered with Saab radio and therefore had only the SID 1 with small display (as shown in the user manual ). What I have bought is now a SID 2. The radio display – and that was actually the reason of the purchase – works perfectly. However, I have found that obviously some encoders for the displays of the SID 2 are not installed on my car … With the average consumption indicator, or the range indicator is just a pity – because they simply do not show any values. But this is uncomfortable with the error message for the cooling liquid: Every time I start the car appears after the brake check prompt the message, I should cool liquid I assume now that vehicles that are pre-equipped for the SID 2, have installed an encoder at the front of the container – at least there is an embodiment there that looks like there is a plug provided. Of course, is not a big drama to delete the error message manually after each start with the clear button – but just a little annoying. Therefore, my question: there is a way that without gr browsing effort to avoid ? ( I thought so about bridging the plug, which would have to be part of the non-existent encoder in the cooling liquid tank – however had to realize that obviously at the wire harness of my car this plug is also not provided ) Somehow knit the wire harness and install encoder with plug is of course not in question . But maybe someone knows something unmanageable ?

Hello, I would like to know what the regular maintenance or inspections cost for a 9-3 ( year 98-02 ). In my particular case it is an SE model with the 2.3 L engine. The 900 II models should be similar. Only the points that are also listed in the service booklet should play a role. So please do not “pull on winter tires” or similar. This serves on the one hand to make prices a little more transparent, to see the costs in general, as well as In comparison to this an offer of a free Saab workshop to face. Many interested parties in a Saab are perhaps afraid to buy such a vehicle, because very often is spoken of horrendous workshop costs. Therefore my second question, what costs a workshop hour at your dealer? Are there regional differences. Personally, I am interested in the price for the inspection 110,000 km, as this is probably one of the most extensive. Since I have not yet been Saab fa hre, would like to know how I can or must invest my Christmas money? Thank you for your efforts to look into the documents again. Give all this in the form: Model Saab Dealer / free dealer – Town name inspection XXX km Price at the appropriate date Gruss Thomas

Hello all! With my 9-3 2.0t SE (Bj 9/98) the display of the SID has been defective for some time: In random order, individual pixels of the display are missing up to the complete “absence” of whole lines. The display of the climate automation now has the same problem. In the Saab workshop one already nodded knowingly: Problem be known, but repair costs around 500 € (well only the display, not a new system…), a guarantee that it does not occur again after 2 years, but there is there That’s why my question is: Does someone in the forum know a different remedy or do you have to accept it? Apart from the fact that the usability is very limited, if you don’t see what you’re using, I also feel the thing visually unsightly… PS: Is my first post, therefore indulgence, if too long, too short, too imprecise etc…

Hi I have a question. My neighbour drives a Saab 900 built in 1998. As far as I know this was the last model with the name 900 before the change of model or the renaming to 9-3 came. This Saab is equipped with a 2 liter 16V petrol engine with 96kw(130hp). My neighbor now claims that this is an Opel construction. Because the 2.5 liter V6 (C25XE) comes from the Opel shelf, he thinks this 2 liter 4 cylinder also comes from Opel. I believe that however I’ve been trying to convince him avon for quite some time, but I’m sure that this engine is derived from the X20XEV (Opel 2 Litre 16V with 136hp). I say that this engine is a Saab-own construction. I know that Opel and Saab are operating under a large GM roof, and other engines (primarily diesel) are identical or only slightly changed. Just not this engine, ode r?? Can someone tell me who’s right now? Greetings Hoffi

Hello, since I will be 18 in just under a year I naturally think about a car Since I was too expensive after a Skoda Fabia, a Volvo 460 too old and a Mercedes 250er too boring was the Saab 9-3 2.2 TID with 116hp in mind. If someone has experience with the vehicle, can tell me how much I have to spend on a good 2000 model, which running power of the engine (which comes from Opel), perhaps the consumption and important for me would be the maintenance costs. Because it’s no use if I get a car cheaply and have to invest all the more in taxes, insurance or fuel. Yes, it’s best to explain the car on MFG. Classisi.

Hello Saab friends, today I was on my way as I drove towards a junction, whose traffic light turned yellow when I was still quite far away. So I braked and flashed the opposite left turner so that they knew that I was stopping. After I drove and looked again at the fittings, I noticed that the main-beam lamp was shining. I thought I once again pulled too hard on the lever (no great art at the labber parts) and wanted to get the distance by pulling again On the way there I tried whether the main light went out when I switched on the light switch on the stand light or completely switched on (day running light is activated with safety number 15), nothing happened. At the position “stand light” the dipped light went out but the main light remained on. Even when I turned off my Saab at the gas station, pulled off the key and locked it, the main light remained on. I had the safety switch off, nothing happened. No. 15 pulled off, which did not help and then the fuse No. 27 (Fernlicht & ACC); when this was pulled off neither dipped- or main-beam went. When I put it back in again, the main-beam was also on again. Only after I had removed the relay No. B in the electric center at the front of the engine compartment and then activated the ignition and deactivated again and the relay again inserted, the main-beam was off. I then switched on the main-beam again for the test and it let itself be Then I repeated the procedure with the relay and it was out again. Now I’m driving without high-light and light horn but in the long run this is annoying, especially with long road nets in the dark. Who knows how to fix this problem and what it is about? Thanks & Greeting, Henning

Dear friends of the well-kept Swedish automobile, I have noticed recently that the coolant temperature of my 900, 2.0 during the ride regularly sinks for a short time and lets me think about the function of the thermostat. However, after the cold start the engine gets warm quite quickly, so that the thermostat can not actually be completely failed. During the ride the thermometer is typically exactly horizontal and sinks more often in the short term (e.g. up to the point under 1/4 on the tank display .. mirror image) to climb up again a little later and adjust the horizontal position. This effect occurs about every five to ten minutes. Could this be normal (I don’t know where the coolant temperature is actually measured) or can such a thermostat become unappealing over time..?

Dear Saab friends, I (or my little black) have the following problem: On the highway (approx. 160 km/h) the car suddenly started to smoke extremely, the power was gone and when rolling out on the roadside it went out completely. OK – by towing service and a small detour over a workshop near the roadside the car is now in my workshop. Diagnosis: Turbo fastened – 1st cylinder “cut through” MOTORSCHADEN! Now comes: I have the car a A new water pump was installed and worked on the fuel bridge (on the bill there is conversion work on the E. nozzles). The workshop is actually quite kulant. The company liability insurance is already switched on and tomorrow an expert will look at the car. Now the question: Can it be that the damage caused by errors in the inspection have occurred? Couldn’t it be discovered during an inspection that It is a 9-3 Tid 2.2 from 2001 with 141 tkm According to the report of the workshop it is an economic total damage… I am looking forward to the report and would be very pleased about your opinions / experiences.