RE: Shed Of The Week: Saab 9-5 Aero Estate
Discussion
Olivera said:
Appalling handling vehicles, so in no way a PH car, but otherwise decent for the money 
I wouldn't say "appalling" - the handling of mine was more fun than the Merc E class I replaced it with, which really is Boaty McBoatface. Will probably improve with some decent rubber, I hope. The Saab was competent, not exciting, a bit scrabbly under power. But neither of them is the epitome of fun handling, I think if you want that you probably shouldn't be looking at massive lardy estate cars.Olivera said:
Appalling handling vehicles, so in no way a PH car, but otherwise decent for the money
Tosh. Saabs have always been PH cars ever since they used the 93/95 for rallying. In the 80s they were hard as nails with masses of turbo lag. No Caterham perhaps but they are proper Saabs IMHO.
Arnold Cunningham said:
I might be interested in it!
Farnborough is too far from Manchester! Pity I was in the south east/London for Xmas in it. Could have easily gone home on the train. hora said:
Funnily enough I'm about to put my 06 9-5 Aero estate in black up for sale. 105,000miles. 1 previous owner but hopefully not a bloody grand! Lovely car but I've done 10,000miles in 6months in it 
In general- for the money, c280bhp, reliable, spacious, unflustured, different, dual a/c, Harman&Kardon multichange dash CD player and built in boot woofer- how wrong can you go for the money.
Shed got the bad bits wrong- it's cool packs that you have to watch out for.
I've scratched this itch, Boxster at some point, mk2.5 mx5 done- I won't be touching the mk3 mx5 or mr2 as I want cars with character.
Edited by hora on Friday 6th January 19:21
It's a 4 hour train ride door to door (to manchester station). Send me some decent pics, details, price etc. I'm tired of shyster "dealers" telling me something is nice and finding an utter dog - so if it's in genuinely decent nick, I don't mind getting the train up.
hora said:
Farnborough is too far from Manchester! Pity I was in the south east/London for Xmas in it. Could have easily gone home on the train.
Edited by Arnold Cunningham on Friday 6th January 19:42
V8junkie said:
My 04 Vector estate has just died.
Bought three years ago as a 'set of wheels to get to work' after a career change left me without a company van, it was only meant to be a short term car but having passed MOT's with little difficulty and not needing much work doing I kept it as it was just so comfortable, reliable and plain useful with a huge load area.
Over the last six months it has had an extremely random cold start issue, turning over but just not catching and then without changing procedure or doing anything it would start and run fine for weeks. Until last week! Wouldn't start and eventually ran battery pretty much flat, tried jumping too but still no good. Left it and went to work in missus car. Next day fired straight up, drove all day fine. Next morning - no start again. No codes showing, nothing obviously amiss under the bonnet, can hear fuel pump.
Alas I don't have the time to play with it so its got to go, a shame as its tested till October and drives great so would be ideal for someone who knows what they're doing / has a supply of spares they can throw at it.
I'd have another but the missus can't get on with the key/reverse malarky.
Prob the ECU failing - not an enormous cost or hassleBought three years ago as a 'set of wheels to get to work' after a career change left me without a company van, it was only meant to be a short term car but having passed MOT's with little difficulty and not needing much work doing I kept it as it was just so comfortable, reliable and plain useful with a huge load area.
Over the last six months it has had an extremely random cold start issue, turning over but just not catching and then without changing procedure or doing anything it would start and run fine for weeks. Until last week! Wouldn't start and eventually ran battery pretty much flat, tried jumping too but still no good. Left it and went to work in missus car. Next day fired straight up, drove all day fine. Next morning - no start again. No codes showing, nothing obviously amiss under the bonnet, can hear fuel pump.
Alas I don't have the time to play with it so its got to go, a shame as its tested till October and drives great so would be ideal for someone who knows what they're doing / has a supply of spares they can throw at it.
I'd have another but the missus can't get on with the key/reverse malarky.
MarJay said:
The whole Mrs Shed thing is hackneyed and dull....
Whilst entitled to an opinion, you are wrong. The Mrs Shed thing will never get boring. Long live Mrs Shed, although the her implied abundant girth would suggest heart disease or diabetes may actually grant you your wish sooner than the rest of us would like.I'd actually say probably not the ECU - at it's core at least. Based on the above, (fuel pump coming on), I think the fuel pump only spins up when the ECU tells it to - for about 2 seconds on ignition on & then when cranking. So if the pump comes on, I doubt it's the ECU itself. Although could easily be wiring.
I'm big fan of my 2004 Aero estate (auto), but this one seems a little bit on the ropey side. I bought mine in September with 105,000 miles on the clock and a stack on history to back it up with service stamps/details every 6 months, the guy who owned it before was an architect too to fit the stereotype.
Anyway, I'd echo a lot of the sentiments on here, it's such a good car, loads of kit (I mean heated rear seats?) very smooth and comfortable with the most comfortable seats (leather laz-e-boy recliners more like) i've ever parked my backside on. The handling is somewhat 'floaty' as mentioned but then I did come from a 208gti which was the most unruffled and clinical car in the twisties I've ever owned, besides it's not what it's about.
It goes well too, pretty slow to pick up with the weight and auto box but as an 'overtaking tool' it's pretty effective, that mid range is well known and it does punch pretty hard, it can catch out a lot of cars, all in comfort, those seats I tell you.....
MPG wise the auto blunts it, but I'm running around 28mpg average which I'm happy enough with, that's mostly for my work commute which is a mix of fast A roads and some town driving, on a long run I see mid 30's plus quite easily and have even had 45mpg (Yes I know) pop up on the SID before thanks to a long empty stretch of 50mph speed limit.
I've no idea what I'd replace it with whenever the time comes tbh......Did I mention the seats?
Anyway, I'd echo a lot of the sentiments on here, it's such a good car, loads of kit (I mean heated rear seats?) very smooth and comfortable with the most comfortable seats (leather laz-e-boy recliners more like) i've ever parked my backside on. The handling is somewhat 'floaty' as mentioned but then I did come from a 208gti which was the most unruffled and clinical car in the twisties I've ever owned, besides it's not what it's about.
It goes well too, pretty slow to pick up with the weight and auto box but as an 'overtaking tool' it's pretty effective, that mid range is well known and it does punch pretty hard, it can catch out a lot of cars, all in comfort, those seats I tell you.....
MPG wise the auto blunts it, but I'm running around 28mpg average which I'm happy enough with, that's mostly for my work commute which is a mix of fast A roads and some town driving, on a long run I see mid 30's plus quite easily and have even had 45mpg (Yes I know) pop up on the SID before thanks to a long empty stretch of 50mph speed limit.
I've no idea what I'd replace it with whenever the time comes tbh......Did I mention the seats?
bearman68 said:
V8junkie said:
My 04 Vector estate has just died.
Bought three years ago as a 'set of wheels to get to work' after a career change left me without a company van, it was only meant to be a short term car but having passed MOT's with little difficulty and not needing much work doing I kept it as it was just so comfortable, reliable and plain useful with a huge load area.
Over the last six months it has had an extremely random cold start issue, turning over but just not catching and then without changing procedure or doing anything it would start and run fine for weeks. Until last week! Wouldn't start and eventually ran battery pretty much flat, tried jumping too but still no good. Left it and went to work in missus car. Next day fired straight up, drove all day fine. Next morning - no start again. No codes showing, nothing obviously amiss under the bonnet, can hear fuel pump.
Alas I don't have the time to play with it so its got to go, a shame as its tested till October and drives great so would be ideal for someone who knows what they're doing / has a supply of spares they can throw at it.
I'd have another but the missus can't get on with the key/reverse malarky.
Prob the ECU failing - not an enormous cost or hassleBought three years ago as a 'set of wheels to get to work' after a career change left me without a company van, it was only meant to be a short term car but having passed MOT's with little difficulty and not needing much work doing I kept it as it was just so comfortable, reliable and plain useful with a huge load area.
Over the last six months it has had an extremely random cold start issue, turning over but just not catching and then without changing procedure or doing anything it would start and run fine for weeks. Until last week! Wouldn't start and eventually ran battery pretty much flat, tried jumping too but still no good. Left it and went to work in missus car. Next day fired straight up, drove all day fine. Next morning - no start again. No codes showing, nothing obviously amiss under the bonnet, can hear fuel pump.
Alas I don't have the time to play with it so its got to go, a shame as its tested till October and drives great so would be ideal for someone who knows what they're doing / has a supply of spares they can throw at it.
I'd have another but the missus can't get on with the key/reverse malarky.
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