New SAAB owner.
Discussion
julianm said:
For tuning the best bet would be http://www.noobtune.co.uk/ - highly regarded by lots of owners & very well priced. Nottingham based so not too far away. I understand the drive home usually takes less time somehow. Lots of +ve reviews on UK saabs. Good luck with it!
He's just done mine- I'm delighted.
Right this really is due an update...
So she's just ticke over 96k and the bills keep coming.
First off at the end of last year Novemberish the alternator went, managed to get hold of a warrented recondishend bosch unit. So I had Waymills Garage, Whitchurch fit that, as I was still at uni. At cost £300 excluding labour.
Next at the end of Christmas term, I had booked her in with Classic 900 in Hull, back at my parents, was trying to hold off spending money before then, but of course she had other plans, new pads on the front, just so I could get it home, without risking the disks.
So on the way home, engine management light came on, rang classic 900 to confirm my booking at the beginning of Jan mentioned the EML, this was at 10am Christmas eve. They said if I got there before half 11 they would plug it in and tell me what it was at a couple of 1000 miles to do over Christmas. Got there in time plugged it in. Direct ignition cassette, fortunately they had a genuine SAAB one in stock (£250ish), fitted there and then. Before lunch on Christmas Eve. Great service!
Right Christmas done, back to classic 900 for service and few bits and bobs. Mainly managed to save the front discs, scrapped the back ones. New pads new disk pleas handbrake mec. Another £400 but the car came back feeling good.
I think that was it until Tuesday night. Knowing I needed two new tyres on the front, thought i'd replace them with something a little more hard wearing. That was until I got a puncher on the rear, hitting a pothole, in the dark on a country lane. So that would now actually be a full set. Settled on some Bridgestone another £335.00.
So their we go lots of money (as student) spent on my car, what else is a student loan for!?
Russ
So she's just ticke over 96k and the bills keep coming.
First off at the end of last year Novemberish the alternator went, managed to get hold of a warrented recondishend bosch unit. So I had Waymills Garage, Whitchurch fit that, as I was still at uni. At cost £300 excluding labour.
Next at the end of Christmas term, I had booked her in with Classic 900 in Hull, back at my parents, was trying to hold off spending money before then, but of course she had other plans, new pads on the front, just so I could get it home, without risking the disks.
So on the way home, engine management light came on, rang classic 900 to confirm my booking at the beginning of Jan mentioned the EML, this was at 10am Christmas eve. They said if I got there before half 11 they would plug it in and tell me what it was at a couple of 1000 miles to do over Christmas. Got there in time plugged it in. Direct ignition cassette, fortunately they had a genuine SAAB one in stock (£250ish), fitted there and then. Before lunch on Christmas Eve. Great service!
Right Christmas done, back to classic 900 for service and few bits and bobs. Mainly managed to save the front discs, scrapped the back ones. New pads new disk pleas handbrake mec. Another £400 but the car came back feeling good.
I think that was it until Tuesday night. Knowing I needed two new tyres on the front, thought i'd replace them with something a little more hard wearing. That was until I got a puncher on the rear, hitting a pothole, in the dark on a country lane. So that would now actually be a full set. Settled on some Bridgestone another £335.00.
So their we go lots of money (as student) spent on my car, what else is a student loan for!?
Russ
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