Sold my 9-5 and congrats to Puntita and Krit

Yesterday evening I`ve sold my Saab 9-5 to a client. Her own car was too expensive to repair. She`s very happy with my 9-5 and I have still 3 Saabs left.

The 9-5 really is a good car, I really enjoyed driving the 9-5 but I did not use this car very often. It`s better this way. Besides that. I am in contact with the owner of my first new bought Saab (9-3 hatchback on petrol). He `s still a happy owner, but if he wants to sell in the future he`ll call me first.

Today Puntita and Krit are married in their "Sharp-Saab" in Thailand. Congratulations and good luck together!!!

With my Saab 9-3 Aero I`m still not finished by the way. Very often I have the "rear fog light" warning. I`m afraid I have to replace the whole fuse box (have replaced light, wires are ok).

New this fuse box is rather expensive, I hope to replace it with a used one. It`s not very urgent, so I have the time.

Clean oil pan for the 9-5

Yesterday evening we`ve proceeded with my Midnight Blue Saab 9-5. Last week we`ve cleaned the oil pan and strainer. This page of Frank Wulfers was very usefull for us (never done this before to be honest).

Yesterday we`ve installed the clean oil pan back in the car. After that we`ve filled the engine with fresh oil.

Starting the car was not easy with a dead battery, so the 9-3 convertible supplied the electricity. We`ve let the engine warm up but (fortunately) did not see leaks around the oil sump.

For the moment I`m finished with my own 9-5. We want to do the same maintenance now first for the Saab 9-5 of John (an other local Saabist). John helped me with my 9-5 too the last weeks, on the picture below he is cleaning my engine.

Article about Kazimir van Hooijdonk

In the dutch newspaper "het Financieele dagblad" of this morning an article was written about Kazimir van Hooijdonk (KCPerformance). He not only has a Phaeton but also a nice Saab 9-5 from `98 with 450hp (yes, 450hp is correct). If you double click on the image you can read the article (if you can read dutch).

Saab 9-5 oilpan check for sludge

Yesterday evening I`ve started (with help from other local Saabists) with the oil pan check of my Saab 9-5. Frank Wulfers has made a very usefull how-to-do page if you want to know how to do it yourself.

On the picture above the old oil is drained. In the mean time also my airfilter has been replaced with a new one.

My 9-5 oil pan was not very clean, but could be worse for a car of nearly 15 years of age (334.000km).

I`ve cleaned the oil pan and strainer with some Avgas but I`m not finished yet. It was midnight when we`ve stopped and my oil pan was rather clean. I hope to proceed soon.

Changing ATF for the Saab 9-5

Yesterday evening I`ve changed the oil for my automatic transmission (ATF) of the Saab 9-5. I`ve got some help from other local Saabists because I`m not so experienced yet with these kind of things. If you want to do it yourself too, please read this how-to-do page from Frank Wulfers.

My interior filter was rather "original" so I`ve ordered a new one. If time permits I`ll do the oil change very soon. First we`ll do the ATF change of John`s 9-5 (an other local Saabist) and then we proceed with my 9-5.

Article about the Saab 9-5 in Autovisie

That the Saab 9-5 is a very interesting used car we all know, but now the Dutch Autovisie has written a nice article about it. The value of the 9-5 is much lower than comparable other cars of its age. Click here to read the article.

Today I went to the airport to prepare the 95 for the Saabmeet this wednesday (10th of october at 18.00).

Save your own Saab!

A couple of day`s ago I`ve posted something about saving your own Saab. Fortunately some Saabists really do or want to. A good Saab-friend I have is looking now for an additional 9-5 to his Saab collection. He likes the 9-5 Estate, here in Holland a lot of them are for sale for very reasonable prices.

As prices are very low here for the 9-5, the 900NG prices really are dropped to a low level. A fellow saabforum.nl member (Menno) has saved a 900NG from the scrapheap (it`s the 3rd Saab in his collection). He`s made some nice pictures of his "new" Saab, I just wanted to share his nice pictures (got his permission).

Royal Saab 9-5

Fellow Saabists are not only sending nice pictures, yesterday I`ve got some very nice Saab gadgets from Simik from Los Angeles (see picture below). Thank you very much Simik! Feel free to look around at the Saab website of Simik!

Today the Swedish King, his Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf has visited the Saab Car museum. Of course he came in a Swedish car as you can see on the picture below.

Clearly visible on the picture is his Saab 9-5 (Dame Edna Griffin Aero), unfortunately (for him) he does not have the same 9-5 as I do (lol). But my 9-5 has at least the royal colour.

Nice Saab pictures

On the web I`ve found some nice Saab pictures so I`ve posted them on our Facebook page last week. I could not resist to post the "Winter Wonderland" Saab on this blog for the non-facebook Saabists.

Last week I`ve fitted a spoiler on my Saab 9-5, so I`ve made a picture myself too :). I`ve traded in my ugly black rims for aluminium ones, in my opinion my 9-5 is looking much better now.

The picture below is from a 96 I found somewhere for sale. I think these cars are underestimated classics. They are cheap to buy and to maintain. Maintanance is easy too. The only thing is that these cars need to sleep in a garage because the rustdevil likes these kind of Saabs very much.

Saab 9-5

Since new Saabs are not available anymore I`ve decided to collect more Saabs. Recently I`ve bought my 4th Saab, this time a 9-5 more or less saved from the scrapheap. This Saab 9-5 needs some TLC but I`m finished with the Saab 95 and was looking for a new project.

The 9-5 is the Saab with the most experience in my collection with 333.333 km (and still keeps on going on).

I`ve made a page for this Saab 9-5 with more pictures to come during the restoration.