A&Q about 350Z
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A friend of ours stopped by last night about 8:00. She is a young woman w/ a 2 year old in her Saab 9.5, and said her power steering went out and all these lights went on in her dash. I asked her how far back, and she said about 3 miles. Temp was almost pegged on her 2.3 liter turbo, but I don't think it hurt the motor.
Sure enough, the idler pulley bearing went out and threw the serpentine belt. Now for the name part: That is the sound you make when you find out it will take THREE DAYS to order a simple idler assembly. That sucker is not within a 2 hour drive of here, we checked everywhere. Her husband had just spent $800 to get the throttle body replaced, and the Saab dealership had said they would replace the belt and idler for an additional $400. Looks like you have to pull the upper motor mount to get to the belt.
Her car is in my shop, told him to get the parts and we would put it in if he helped me.
Damn I love my Z after looking at that car. I have spent less on three parts cars than he did on one throttle body.
1983 280ZX N/A: 98% rust free, 118,000 actual miles.
1982 280ZX Turbo. $250 Parts car that was better than the rustbucket.
1983 280ZX Turbo. Hopeless rust case. The more I fixed, the more I found.
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Die Yuppie Scum!
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Me YORGO...You Not
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YORGO wonder what belt replacement cost on this SAAB....
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Me YORGO...You Not
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the saying i always heard is " its a saab story!" do any GM dealer carry saab parts? they are owned by gm i wonder if they maintnace them.
76 280 all stock exept full bushings,qwuik knuckles,tokico struts&springs,3-2 header,k&n cai,msa sway bars,konig rewinds with toyo proxis ra1.
78 rust bucket. (4 sale!)
2000 v-dub mk4 jetta vr6
2005 titan 4x4 with nismo cai,banks exhus
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S.wedish
A.utomobiles
A.ways
B.reak
Faster than a Motorola
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we have those in stock lol
God I love working for an import car part shop!
Dave
SpooledupRacing@comcast.net
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86' 13B 5spd, N/T
Rotary Power FTW!
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"Her husband had just spent $800 to get the throttle body replaced, and the Saab dealership had said they would replace the belt and idler for an additional $400".
Sounds like some of the dealership stories I have heard where the car goes in the shop for one expensive repair, and comes out needing numerous other expensive repairs within a few months.....you draw your own conclusions.
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Eurotrash cars are always big $$$ to maintain, why is anybody surprised?
Rusty but running.
Polish cell phone and two tubes of Aluma-seal.
And, now we are historic.
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What makes everybody here think a 350Z is going to be any better.
Scottie
71 240Z/GN Power/Corvette IRS
10.08 @ 134.44, 1.36 60'
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on my mom's 97 buick park avenue ultra, you have to remove the motor mount to change the belt. to remove the motor mount you have to remove the pressed on power steering pump pulley, and unbolt the water pump pulley. not to mention, it seems they only like using Torx sockets and male Torx studs. dang!! took me like 2 days to change the belt plus $20 in new bits and sockets.. oh well
1980 280zx w/L28ET MSnS-Extra, framerails are toast...
1982 280zx...newest acquisition...
1983 Maxima - just sits in the driveway these days...
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"What makes everybody here think a 350Z is going to be any better."
Because SnAABs are in SAABs, and they will pay to see SAAB written on their car? :-D
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Dark_Z wrote:
> Because SnAABs are in SAABs, and they will pay to see SAAB
> written on their car? :-D
This is the same mentality that has people hating Hondas because because they are driven by ricers. Brilliant.
Scottie
71 240Z/GN Power/Corvette IRS
10.08 @ 134.44, 1.36 60'
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I have owned 2 Saab 9000 Turbos and they are great cars. I did most of the maintenence work myself just using a regular Haynes manual. I was never stranded by either of these cars. They were very fun to drive (esp the turbos).
Now they are owned by GM, and have no idea what that's done to quality.
A top of the line Saab MSRP is about 41K. You can easily spend that much on a Maxima.
The old 900s and 9000s were definitely quirky cars, but very reliable. Don't know about the new ones.
Sean
73 240Z Turbo, Intercooled L28ET, T3/T04E .63/.50/57 trim, 8.8:1 CR, 88 EFI w/ custom EPROM, Z32 MAF, 47 lb injectors, Pallnet rail
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gm owns 1/3 of the shares of saab, they do not own saab. the 9-3 and 9-5 are still built in sweeden. the 9-2x is subi crap and the 9-7x is a glorified trailblazer. their are very fiew manufacturers that arn't owned partially by another company, includeing nissan.
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The trannies get mushy and finicky past 100k miles. SPG handles great when not torque steering.
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"the 9-2x is subi crap"
Hey buddy, I'd much rather have the Subi drivetrain in the 9-2x than one by Saab. The reason Saab used the Subie drivetrain is that they knew they couldn't make a better AWD drivetrain than Subaru. <---common sense would indicate this because there would be a GM or SAAB drivetrain in them if they were better than Subie's.
Us Subie owners affectionately refer to them as SAABarus. Haha.
We can always check the records of reliability of each company in the last 20 years and see who has a better track record. One of my best friends loves Saabs and even he will tell you that Subie blows them away in reliability. Subarus do have their quirks but they pale in comparison to Saab's quirks.
God must love stupid people, he made SOOOOO many of them!