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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: Any takers?
« on: 09 April 2013, 09:45:14 AM »
If one had £30K to spend on one's transport, would one be driving a Saab...?
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: Anyone tried one of these?
« on: 04 April 2013, 01:43:43 PM »
I'd be fascinated if it worked as stated by using the OBD2 port on all the cars listed, some of which are not OBD2 compliant.
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: radio issues
« on: 29 March 2013, 08:09:52 PM »
Before going mad and getting a replacement, and now you have the correct tools for the job, may be worth squirting a dollop of switch cleaner on the contacts, and doing the hokey-cokey with the unit, which may solve the problem if it's just poor/dirty connection.
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: Charging a flat battery by driving
« on: 25 March 2013, 01:26:17 PM »I replaced the first dead battery in my car at 5 years old.
An engineering child prodigy! How did you manage to reach over the wing??
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: Winter tyres again.
« on: 25 March 2013, 01:22:32 PM »
Tropical down here in Hampshire - I'm getting my t-shirts out....
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: Coming soon to a Saab 9-5 near you....
« on: 19 March 2013, 07:52:09 AM »
A stark demonstration of why I still have the standard AS2 and a road atlas.
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: What I Did To My Saab Today.
« on: 15 March 2013, 01:07:36 PM »
.......and cured with a big dose of switchcleaner up the MAF........
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: Insurance renewal
« on: 11 March 2013, 02:19:24 PM »
Chris Knott just turned me down flat.
Apparently because I have a claim in my name (different car, different policy, different driver...just my car and insurance....I wasn't even in it at the time!) in the last 12 months, they won't offer insurance because the car is modified.
15 years without so much as a scratch with me at the helm....
Apparently because I have a claim in my name (different car, different policy, different driver...just my car and insurance....I wasn't even in it at the time!) in the last 12 months, they won't offer insurance because the car is modified.
15 years without so much as a scratch with me at the helm....
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: MAF sensor 2.2TiD
« on: 06 March 2013, 11:39:51 AM »
Hoping that I'm not speaking too soon, but the clean-up with switch cleaner seems to have solved the "dieselling" issue and the CEL has gone.
Effing expensive items to replace if they have a SAAB badge on them, but I think the same type was also used on one or two models of Corsa, so keeping fingers crossed I can keep the arm and leg.
Don't understand why the sensor itself can be about £90 but people want over £200 for one when it's still mounted in the duct - when is the duct ever going to need replacing???
Anyway, curse the man who invented the 5-point security torx screw (or is it "screw the man who invented the 5-point security torx curse"?)
Effing expensive items to replace if they have a SAAB badge on them, but I think the same type was also used on one or two models of Corsa, so keeping fingers crossed I can keep the arm and leg.
Don't understand why the sensor itself can be about £90 but people want over £200 for one when it's still mounted in the duct - when is the duct ever going to need replacing???
Anyway, curse the man who invented the 5-point security torx screw (or is it "screw the man who invented the 5-point security torx curse"?)
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: MAF sensor 2.2TiD
« on: 05 March 2013, 06:23:40 PM »
This is it...
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / Re: MAF sensor 2.2TiD
« on: 05 March 2013, 09:49:46 AM »
Here - my picture vanished!
I'll get back to this when I get home. Basically the wire with the little glass capsule on it has corrosion rather than dirt on it, and I'm wondering what effect this may have on the functioning of the sensor.
Anyhoo, sluiced it all out with switch-cleaner and we'll see how it goes....
I'll get back to this when I get home. Basically the wire with the little glass capsule on it has corrosion rather than dirt on it, and I'm wondering what effect this may have on the functioning of the sensor.
Anyhoo, sluiced it all out with switch-cleaner and we'll see how it goes....
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: Insurance renewal
« on: 05 March 2013, 08:02:24 AM »
Audax - the point is, mine IS considered modified (albeit only sufficiently to make up some of the power shortfall to the 1.9TiD) which is why I went to Flux!
I can easily match or better their renewal figure - which is provided by some anonymous small-scale operator - using "confused" and declaring the mod, with lower figures coming from a number of well-known* companies.
* Not necessarily well-loved, though!
I can easily match or better their renewal figure - which is provided by some anonymous small-scale operator - using "confused" and declaring the mod, with lower figures coming from a number of well-known* companies.
* Not necessarily well-loved, though!
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Classic Saab 9-5 (MY 1998-2010) / MAF sensor 2.2TiD
« on: 04 March 2013, 08:49:16 PM »
Does this look bad to you lot? Car started clattering this arvo when I started it - a noise described by my Indie as "dieselling" and previously put down to a dirty sensor fooling the ECU into under-fuelling.
This looks a bit worse than "dirty" though - will the additional resistance of a corroded wire cause/contribute to the problem, chaps?
This looks a bit worse than "dirty" though - will the additional resistance of a corroded wire cause/contribute to the problem, chaps?
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Insurance renewal
« on: 04 March 2013, 07:56:28 PM »
Adrian Flux just notified me of my new premium. Now with an extra year's no claims, and no changes to the car, it's an extra £110, taking it to £489.
60 years old, office job, low crime area, home owner, no business cover, 12000 miles per year, 2.2TiD Estate.
My crime? Steinbauer P-Box, I guess.
Just checked "Confused" and I could get an Aero HOT insured for £250 and a 1.9TiD for £175
60 years old, office job, low crime area, home owner, no business cover, 12000 miles per year, 2.2TiD Estate.
My crime? Steinbauer P-Box, I guess.
Just checked "Confused" and I could get an Aero HOT insured for £250 and a 1.9TiD for £175
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Off-topic chat, Help, Advice, General motoring issues / Re: What I Did To My Saab Today.
« on: 04 March 2013, 01:12:11 PM »
....and Hello to a symptomless CEL this morning! It was fine when I took it out last night...........