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From: Steve Firth on 26 Mar 2010 17:25 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.
From: DervMan on 26 Mar 2010 18:52 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jfzcqw.4zsi2mgslwo0N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... > 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? Depends on how low... > Mileage is less than 6000 per year. That isn't too bad. Guess it'll depend on how it's driven and where; this could be a ten mile (each way) commute for five days a week through a busy city in rush hour, by one "careful lady owner," or less frequent, longer trips. > 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. The 3.0 doesn't tend to be well liked, but how much of this is because of "if it ain't four cylinders, it ain't a Saab" crud, and how much is genuine, that's something else... The diesels have a bad reputation, because that Isuzu V6 is a horrid piece of kit by all accounts. But I know you don't mean the diesel... right? -- The DervMan www.dervman.com
From: Steve Firth on 26 Mar 2010 19:14 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.
From: Bob Sherunckle on 27 Mar 2010 04:00 "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 ;-)
From: Douglas Payne on 27 Mar 2010 04:25
Steve Firth wrote: > 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. I'm sure someone would make an effort to pick you up at Scotland airport. -- Douglas |