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Spent the day replacing my rear brake pads and patching up some rust spots on the Saab - I'll take a bondo-bubble over a rust bubble any day.

Just changed the oil in the Saab. First time I've done my own oil in over a decade - the 70.00 bill from Jiffy Lube because of the Synthetic upgrade is what urged me to do it myself. Jacking a 9000 needs a good floor jack, and I bought a bad one that didn't lift the car high enough; I wonder if I might have been better off with a good bottle jack ( Read more... )

I'm calling the bodywork done, basically - just a final bit of sealing. I'm not totally happy with it, but its as good as its getting on the budget I have to give it. I paid Gregg of Gregg's autobody to do $400.00 worth of metalwork. Told him what my priorities were, and he met them. I was very impressed with his work. After he was done, I ( Read more... )

So, after running a variety of medical and school related errands with Morgan, I thought I would do some work on my Saab, which was rear-ended a week and a half after I bought it. I was backing, the other driver was skidding, and the Insurance company assigned fault to me, because she had a broken headlight, and I had about $2000 in damage.* So ( Read more... )

Late last week, Morgan was perusing the Bulletin Board at work, one of which was a Saab 9000. She thought of me, shivering in my snowpants on my 24 mile commute on the 0 degree days we had last week in my heaterless Cavalier wagon with the stink that makes her sick. She alerted me to it, and I test drove it.

Long story short, I am now the owner of ( Read more... )