Svenska Aeroplan Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Well, I was going around a corner last night and hit a patch of ice sending the 9000 in to a tizzy. I flew into the ditch and smacked the front left corner into the embankment, bounced off and spun around hitting the rear, and then did another half turn. I scuffed up the bumper a bit, lost a fog light, broke the front left headlight mounting bracket, and the front end seems to be about a half inch more to the right than it used to be. The sensor attached to the pipe coming out the right of the engine broke off, and my rough idle is gone, but now I get rewarded with a grinding noise when accelerating below 1,500 RPM's. SHIT! Quote Link to comment
Battle_Pope Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 sounds expensive. Quote Link to comment
Svenska Aeroplan Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 Yes. Saab = pay through the ass. Quote Link to comment
Battle_Pope Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 yeah, a friend of mine hit my other friend's 92x, it was only scratches on the front and side panels, but that alone cost almost $1,000 Quote Link to comment
Svenska Aeroplan Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 Wow. I've yet to even see a 9-2X. They're a bit of a black sheep. lol ---------------- HOLY SHIT! $215 for a headlight, and $93.00 for a new mounting bracket! Hell, for a couple hundred more I can just buy a old 900. I like those better anyway. Quote Link to comment
Siendra Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Dude... is that the picture you meant to post? Quote Link to comment
Battle_Pope Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 just pretend nothing happened. Quote Link to comment
Ceraziefish Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 That sucks. Cars are a big pain in the ass. Recently the back axle of my '66 Volvo Station Wagon (Wooh! Best car ever.) broke for no reason. Was ridiculously expensive. Fortunately my parents paid for it... But still. I'm a little worried about it happening again. This was after the car had been out of the shop for a week, because they had to rebuild the engine, which included piecing together two carbeurators since they haven't been in production since... I don't know, the seventies? Quote Link to comment
Svenska Aeroplan Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 I just got back from Les Schwab, and they said that doing the alignment would be pointless now as it would just be out of wack again by the time I got out of the parking lot. They quoted me: 1 Tie Rod End........$57.95 ..Tie Rod End Labor..$17.25 2 Drive Axels.......$184.76 1 CV Joint...........$71.50 ..The Alignment......$47.95 Total: $379.41 Quote Link to comment
thebornotaku Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 wait hold on a sec. you fucked up your tie rods (the rods that push the wheels so they turn) AND your axels? damn, pretty extensive. plus that grinding noise is probably something amiss in the engine. Quote Link to comment
Anime Gee Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I just got back from Les Schwab, and they said that doing the alignment would be pointless now as it would just be out of wack again by the time I got out of the parking lot. They quoted me: 1 Tie Rod End........$57.95 ..Tie Rod End Labor..$17.25 2 Drive Axels.......$184.76 1 CV Joint...........$71.50 ..The Alignment......$47.95 Total: $379.41 That's not too bad. I thought that it was going to cost way more than that. European cars tend to cost an arm & a leg. Sometimes they also want to jack your right testicle & on occasion they even yank on your left one. ('o' )!!! Quote Link to comment
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