I have just bought a 2003 9-5 Aero estate in Graphite Green, with light accident damage.
My intention is to put it back on the road, rather than break it, subject to any advice given on here, and to do a little re-build thread.
It's a high spec car, sunroof, ventilated seats, sat nav and I believe the Harmon Kardon Prestige audio system as there is a speaker on the right hand side of the boot, 128,000 miles with mainly main dealer history.
This is as I picked it up
Today I have removed the damaged wing and front bumper. The bumper will repair, but it needs a splitter. The plastic part of the headlamp is damaged so it needs one of those, but the rest of the metalwork is fine, and though dry the washer bottle too..
The tailgate wasn't shutting / opening correctly, neither did the warning lights work. The problem there was the plastic covering over the latch in the tailgate was damaged, stopping the latch from retracting easily. The microswitch is also u/s, the giveaway being the connector was hanging loose. When I reconnected it the lights stayed on when the tailgate was shut. So probably a mechanism needed.
I was a bit surprised to see corrosion on the panel behind the bumper, is that normal ?
SID is telling me "Service Theft Alarm". The remote control isn't opening / closing the locks either.
Might this be the issue, many pieces of broken plastic deposited themselved when I removed the arch liner