flightless
06-18-2007, 06:17 AM
Hi, With one kit car, two children, a wife and a job - the chances of me either breaking the car for parts or repairing and selling as a repaired car are slim. I am therefore offering the car to you guys as repairable salvage.
For those who don't know this has been my car for about 5 years and for those 5 years it has been serviced and repaired by Haymill saab every 12,000 miles and included a new turbo, DI cartridge, head gasket, set of valve lifters and a new ACC compressor.
A non saab garage repaired the gearbox under warranty with full rebuild of input shaft and bearings, it has since then had a new fifth gear set replcaed.
Just before the accident (a truck decided to bump me on a roundabout) I had just changed the front bushes (for OEM rubber) and the rear brakes - it has had a new OS caliper and new CV joints.
The accident has caused damage to the rear bumper, reflector and spoiler - repair will require replacement parts for each of these plus a small amount of pulling to straighten one of the bumper fixings. I have pictures - and will be happy to take more.
Good points - smooth fast engine, fully working ACC, interior in good order, handles well
Bad points - accident damage, ABS sensor playing up, Clutch lost pressure since being sat but has had a new slave cylinder - so not sure what that's about, timing chain is getting noisy at idle, broken locking wheel nut - needs drilling out, 196k, not road legal until VIC and MOT, front spoiler damage (classic kerb damage)
I have checked with DVLA and I can sell it as repairable salvage and send teh V5 off the new owener would then be registered but would need to get a Vehicle Identity check and MOT before requesting a new v5 from DVLA (although the V5 would be given to them for free)
I was going to break it and sell the parts (and keep some for myself) so i have priced up the average sale price of these parts (from the previous saabs i have broken) took off some money for my time i wont be using and came up with a price of £700
so any offers close to that would be considered.
I'll update when either sold or I have got to the point of brekaing it...
thanks
Gareth
For those who don't know this has been my car for about 5 years and for those 5 years it has been serviced and repaired by Haymill saab every 12,000 miles and included a new turbo, DI cartridge, head gasket, set of valve lifters and a new ACC compressor.
A non saab garage repaired the gearbox under warranty with full rebuild of input shaft and bearings, it has since then had a new fifth gear set replcaed.
Just before the accident (a truck decided to bump me on a roundabout) I had just changed the front bushes (for OEM rubber) and the rear brakes - it has had a new OS caliper and new CV joints.
The accident has caused damage to the rear bumper, reflector and spoiler - repair will require replacement parts for each of these plus a small amount of pulling to straighten one of the bumper fixings. I have pictures - and will be happy to take more.
Good points - smooth fast engine, fully working ACC, interior in good order, handles well
Bad points - accident damage, ABS sensor playing up, Clutch lost pressure since being sat but has had a new slave cylinder - so not sure what that's about, timing chain is getting noisy at idle, broken locking wheel nut - needs drilling out, 196k, not road legal until VIC and MOT, front spoiler damage (classic kerb damage)
I have checked with DVLA and I can sell it as repairable salvage and send teh V5 off the new owener would then be registered but would need to get a Vehicle Identity check and MOT before requesting a new v5 from DVLA (although the V5 would be given to them for free)
I was going to break it and sell the parts (and keep some for myself) so i have priced up the average sale price of these parts (from the previous saabs i have broken) took off some money for my time i wont be using and came up with a price of £700
so any offers close to that would be considered.
I'll update when either sold or I have got to the point of brekaing it...
thanks
Gareth