Fleet Occurrences

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paulplom wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 4:06 pm Those cracked dash clocks on your saab must be a common problem. My 9-5 binnacle was cracked in the same place.
An intact spare came with the car but I cba changing it. I really should as it detracts from the otherwise nice interior.
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What causes it do you think? It's an odd fault.
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paulplom wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 6:46 pm What causes it do you think? It's an odd fault.
Seems to be a case of TADTS. My 9-3 has a crack in the same place but hasn't spread too far upwards yet like the red one
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paulplom wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 6:46 pm What causes it do you think? It's an odd fault.
Clearances wrong so one bit expands or shrinks too much for the gap it's hot?
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Sri05 wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 8:43 pm
paulplom wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 6:46 pm What causes it do you think? It's an odd fault.
Seems to be a case of TADTS. My 9-3 has a crack in the same place but hasn't spread too far upwards yet like the red one
That's weird how it's so common. My wife's one is a bit older on a 54 plate but it's fine, I wonder if it's a 2006 batch issue with that part.
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Fucking SAAB. Useless.
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My usual postie who is a sound cunt and leaves my parcels under my cars or with a neighbour is on bigger parcels this week in the van. So the jobsworth replacement left me a nice card on a Saturday when I was out to tell me the 75 PCV filter is at my local sorting office. Just doing his job but I'm a grumpy arsehole.

I fitted some wheel spacers to my red Saab 93 as the black one already has them and it gives it a beefier look.
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I mustn't have tightened the battery terminal enough after rewiring the drivers seat as I had a weird and intermittent starting issue for the past few weeks. The negative terminal was halfway up the battery post and not particularly tight. Hopefully I've cured that.
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Time to send off the ECU on the red Saab to Noobtune.

£100 for a hike from 150bhp to 220bhp and the standard internals can absolutely cope with it.

Rude not to!
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I sent the ECU via Special Delivery to Noobtune today.

I can't say I'm not slightly nervous, thank fuck the car was cheap and owes me nothing!
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Noobtune has been going years as far as I know, seemed to have a good rep on Saab forums when I frequented them.
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