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 Post subject: MurderMitten's SAAB 9-3
PostPosted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:49 pm 
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Finally picked up the Saab last night. Merry Christmas to me! Bought the car with 192038 miles from the original owner since it was taken off the showroom floor at Grand Rapids Fox Saab in 2006. Bought the car with the genuine Saab roof rack and all special hardware. I have ever piece of paper this car has ever had. Original manual, dealership papers, original window sticker, all maintenance records since birth, two "keys", everything. Only problems were the front fender dent and the gas gauge does not work.
This morning me and pops did some work on the car. Took the front wheel off and fender rain guard and fixed the dent for the most part, it almost looks new and polished the black window trim, side trim, all the plastic, he waxed the hood and front bumper and I did a full interior detail and under the hood detail last night. Car drives straight down the road and the turbo definitely works! Without further adieu here are some pics (excuse my filters and fancy wide eye lens I only have photos I uploaded to my instagram

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Before and after pics. Dent has a few ripples but looks way better! The wheels on this car were trashed too, took a bit of time to clean all four!
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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Nice!
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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Looks super nice! Any questions you may have, I can help you.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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I'm in love with all the features. I am very happy with it.
Ryan, my IG handle is MikeCarmel

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Big T or little t?

Looks awesome. They're pretty good cars. Can't wait to see what you do with it!

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Little t. 2.0T

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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That looks nice. Nice to see one of the rarer wagon variants too.


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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Thanks! Yeah its growing on me more and more with every drive I take!

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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You say little t but you typed 2.0T?

I think for 2006, they dropped the linear engine, the 2.0t. Not entirely sure.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Oh I thought he meant little t like the 2.0 was the little and the v6 turbo was the big T.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Its got the big T on the back. Not as big of a turbo as I'd like but it does the job ;)

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Looks great!!!! Can't wait to see what you do with it.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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With the milage I don't plan on any stressful motor mods. Current plan is to add a new air filter, turboback exhaust if I can find one. Tint, yellow tinted headlights. Buying the rims off my sisters car. 18's with low pro tires painted gold or bronze with 1" spacers to flush the wheels with the fenders. Possibly lowering springs. Really all cosmetic because of the miles. It's been maintained extremely well but still has high miles

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Tint next week, headlight film in the mail!

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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You'll want to find out the offset of the wheels off your sis. Usually 10-15mm up front and 20 mm will flush most wheels.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Also double post, the 2.8T is simply that, only available on 2006-2008 Aeros.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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Tint tomorrow and hopefully tinting the headlights. Will upload pics :)

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Okay so, got the windows tinted 5% in the back 35% in the front same as the Bonneville. I also experimented with tinting the headlights yellow, I am still debating on rocking it for a bit or ripping it off, I am getting equal amounts of love and hate on them. I also tinted my ambers and red reflectors, I did not get any pics of them I forgot, in the last garage pic you can notice on the black trim the ambers are black and blend in a lot more. I will upload more pics when its more then 10 degrees in MI... for now enjoy

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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How about some normal pictures and not fish's balls shots. Whatever that photographing style is called.

Makes it hard to properly judge.

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 Post subject: Re: The New Saab
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I'm going to take some today when it gets thawed out in the garage but

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