My son has been driving my old 4-Runner around for two years now, nice to have a second car. It's drop dead reliable but rusting back to the Earth; chunks fall off at every pot hole. My friend Pete offered his 2003 SAAB Aero Wagon for ~$6k. 120,000 miles, but Pete's only put on 2,000 in the last 30 months. Recent hoses and belts, serpentine, shocks, brakes and comes with four snow mounted on SAAB steelies. There isn't a nick or ding on this car, unbelievable.
I'm afraid I like it.
Your son has a nice beard.
That's my friend Pete, my son (on the right) prefers a slippery face.
That's not Pete, that's the late David E. Davis.
914Driver wrote: Pete.
The wagon looks awesome. My brother had a slightly older Saab (pre GM IIRC) in a sedan model until the headlight was busted by some road debris. He tried to buy a replacement, but Saab simply stopped making them and had no spares. Junkyards were in very short supply, and were asking $2,000+ for the assembly if they could even locate one. Every replacement part was treated like solid gold, so he got rid of it. Might want to check on parts for that sucker first.
Parts for that car are easy to come by and not pricey. Mine is same year, same color, just a sedan with a stick and I really like it. I really tried to talk my wife into aa wagon but she put her foot down, it was to be her car at the time.
One thing, keep up on the spark plugs. I clean and regap mine every 5K when I change the oil. The DIC uses the plugs to monitor what is going on in the engine and if the plugs are out of spec it will burn up the DIC at about $300 a pop.
pinchvalve wrote: The wagon looks awesome. My brother had a slightly older Saab (pre GM IIRC) in a sedan model until the headlight was busted by some road debris. He tried to buy a replacement, but Saab simply stopped making them and had no spares. Junkyards were in very short supply, and were asking $2,000+ for the assembly if they could even locate one. Every replacement part was treated like solid gold, so he got rid of it. Might want to check on parts for that sucker first.
weird,. I have an 87 900.. headlight assembles are like $100 on ebay.. that is headlight and mountings. Unless you are talking about the newest of Saabs (the last 9-3) where headlight assemblies are completely unobtainable
This thread interests me as I've been seeing these pop up in my price range... and they happen to be one of the only manual wagons available.
I've been seeing these pop up more recently, too. I wonder if they're just getting to the age of replacement or if folks are getting skittish about parts and service. If it's the latter, I'm happy to encourage it. Like Spit mentioned, the 9-5 was largely unchanged for so long (13 years!), there are plenty of parts out there - just don't tell anybody else that...
If you need Saab parts, they must have them up here in MN. I see way more Saab's than Volvos....although when I did a craigslist search to confirm this observation there are like 5 times more volvos for sale than Saabs. Either way, the swedes that inhabit MN seem to really like their Saabs.
I need a beard...
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