Electric cars are good for you, save money on gas
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Had to service the head gasket on my 1999 SAAB which has gone 120k miles and that cost $200 with planing the surfaces. That's the first major overhaul on any of the parts of that aluminium block engine.
Man, I always wanted a Saab. My cousin has a 9-5 from... 1998, I believe. When I was buying my current car about 2 years ago, I had my eyes on a nice 2007 9-3 with the 2.0t, but someone bought it before I had the chance.
I'm Swedish so they are abundant here as are the spare parts, custom kits and mechanical knowledge, custom ECU's etc.
In the current market you would pay $700 to 3k USD depending on condition for a 9-5 from 1998. There's literally a 2003 9-5 for $1500 on the market right now.
Well, I'm from Europe too, but quite a bit more south. The 9-5 is too big for me, I prefer smaller cars, and hatchbacks instead of sedans. My basic requirement is to easily fit 2x50l beer kegs and a tap in the back. But really, I bought a quite unusual car the last time around, which I still have and it's awesome, but the fuel economy is horrible (12l/100km of 98+ octane) and more importantly, it's so difficult to buy spare parts. The whole exhaust assembly was rusted to shit (the car is from 2007 and it was all original), so I needed a new one; Mazda quoted me a nonsensical price and then followed it up with "Oh yeah and it's not in stock anyway", so I had to get a Simons from Sweden, which is great but it took a month to get here. That sort of stuff. And since where I'm from, Saabs are very uncommon, it would be the same. So I guess I'm just gonna have to buy something painfully boring the next time around, like a Škoda Octavia - plenty of parts for those here.
If your local area produces parts that is probably what you will have to do, as lots of OEM spec parts get denied due to some random serial number not being aligned correctly during manufacture, and so you get OEM parts for half price.
Also the modding scene is crazy here in Sweden for SAABs and Volvos.
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