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From: Adrian on 27 Mar 2010 04:46 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > Is it to buy a low mileage SAAB 9-5 3.0 Turbo? > > I'm concerned with a low mileage SAAB that it's spent a lot of time > doing shopping trips and has cooked the turbo bearings. Is that likely? No, not really. IIRC the v6 is an assymetric turbo - the turbo's only blown from one bank, and not particularly high boost. Very creamy, not a lot of kick-in- the-back. I'd ask over on saabcentral.com, I think. Lots of 'merkins, who are going to be far more familiar with v6 9-5s than over here, since they didn't shift many here.
From: Peter Hill on 27 Mar 2010 05:52 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:25:51 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >Is it to buy a low mileage SAAB 9-5 3.0 Turbo? > >I'm concerned with a low mileage SAAB that it's spent a lot of time >doing shopping trips and has cooked the turbo bearings. Is that likely? > >Mileage is less than 6000 per year. > >OTOH it's a stonking car and I want it. The only other problem is that >it's 400 miles away and I'm very, very busy. Shopping trips never did cook or coke turbocharger. Failing to change the oil of a low mileage car on time instead of miles could impact turbo life. It's a modern car and will have a water cooled turbo bearing housing. So turbo will last life of the car. I've got one that's done 170K. What killed oil cooled turbo was heat soak from cast manifolds after switching off after 80-90mph M-way run. Water cooled turbo fixed that issue for series 2 RST and R5 turbo but still idiots remove the turbo water cooling because it "overheats the engine". -- Peter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!
From: DervMan on 27 Mar 2010 07:10 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jfzhp8.idqbeu2vkpdsN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... > DervMan <thedervman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> But I know you don't >> mean the diesel... right? > > Too true, no this one is fuelled on God's own fuel and is priced at > pocket money levels for a car that's as good as the best that I have > seen. > > The problem is that to buy it I have to get up to Scotchland. Doesn't sound such a bad experience. Having decided I'm going to run this Saab into the ground, sometimes I think, hmm Saab 9-5. Or 9000. Or diesel conversion and MX-5. -- The DervMan www.dervman.com
From: Steve Firth on 27 Mar 2010 07:57 Peter Hill <peter.usenet1(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Shopping trips never did cook or coke turbocharger. Failing to change > the oil of a low mileage car on time instead of miles could impact > turbo life. Righto, that doesn't seem to be an issue for this one since it has a full MDSH.
From: Bob Sherunckle on 27 Mar 2010 08:34
"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jg0ecd.gwtjkitl8n0gN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... > Bob Sherunckle <zilspeed(a)beeteeopenworld.com> wrote: > >> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:1jfzhp8.idqbeu2vkpdsN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... >> > DervMan <thedervman(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> But I know you don't >> >> mean the diesel... right? >> > >> > Too true, no this one is fuelled on God's own fuel and is priced at >> > pocket money levels for a car that's as good as the best that I have >> > seen. >> > >> > The problem is that to buy it I have to get up to Scotchland. >> >> Which part of Scotchland ? >> >> We have many representatives up here ;-) > > It's not far from Glasgow, with a Motherwell post code. I work in the ML postcode pretty much all of the time and travel through it back and forwards to work. If you need more pics, a lift, blah blah blah, just mail me. Cheers JF |