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More woes - Anyone care for a wild Guess ?!!

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Well after all the grief I have had - I parked my car in the carpark at work and the wheel went down a hole that had been badly repaired - caught the front lower bumper on the kirb which has been repaired too high- bumper got damaged and cannot be repaired - Quote to replace is £600.00!!

Put the car in on Saturday for new tyres - they chipped the alloys - they vigourously deny doing it - but clever cloggs me took 5 mega pixel pictures of the wheels before and after and the damage is clearly not there before - but they still deny it!

Repair bill £65.00 and 4 days off the road or £225.00+ VAT for a new wheel!

Solicitors love people with Luck like me!

And now to top it all - on my way home - Engine malfunction light came on - and now the car limps home violently jerking forwards - Anyone care to make a guess on a 9,000 mile 2004 9 month old aero which I have hardly driven cos of these lousy active head restraints (Long Story - see previous posts- I normally do about 3 to 6,000 miles a month)

So what could be the problem ?

ANY IDEAS ON WHAT IT COULD BE ?!!!!

MAYBE A CHANGE OF CAR ?- Like a BMW ?!!!
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Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]Well after all the grief I have had - I parked my car in the carpark at work and the wheel went down a hole that had been badly repaired - caught the front lower bumper on the kirb which has been repaired too high- bumper got damaged and cannot be repaired - Quote to replace is £600.00!![/qb][/b]
Does this translate to "I drove down a hole in the road and then into a kerb"

Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]Put the car in on Saturday for new tyres.................... Anyone care to make a guess on a 9,000 mile 2004 9 month old aero which I have hardly driven [/qb][/b]
Just 9,000 miles and needs a fell set of tyres


As for the malfunction light, maybe the car is scared of you
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To be fair, Chris, the standard P zero rossos on 04 Aeros have a half life of about 3 milliseconds, so 9000 miles is actually about right.

For the rest, bad luck, stuff like that can happen to all of us.
Originally posted by fliptop (9-5 V6 AgaPower):
[qb]To be fair, Chris, the standard P zero rossos on 04 Aeros have a half life of about 3 milliseconds, so 9000 miles is actually about right.[/qb][/b]
Oh, ok
Polaris,

for gods sake don't get a BMW!!!!!!


Bad luck on the other front.....I think I've read about this sort of bumper problem before on here, and yes it is expensive. Is it an insurance job??

As for the alloy wheel, b***ards!!! I hope you get them to cough up.

But the engine malfunction light has got to be fixable under warranty??
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I say go for the BMW, would be interesting to get an objective comparison, to see if they're worth the extra £££ for a comparable car
Originally posted by Steve McF:
[qb]for gods sake don't get a BMW!!!!!!    :eek:    
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Sorry, but there have been so many problems with this bl00dy Saab, I think Polaris would be better off with a BMW. Go and buy a BMW, Polaris. They are better engineered, better handling and retain their value
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Originally posted by /john:
[qb]They are better engineered, better handling and retain their value  
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I'll agree with the last one of those 3...
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Originally posted by /john:
[qb] They are better engineered, better handling and retain their value  
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They have great headrests too
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John's right. I also heard their tyres last longer And people in garages respect their drivers so much more than lowly Saabers
Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb] they chipped the alloys [/qb][/b]
I've not seen that upgrade on the speedparts website
Thanks for everyones comments :-

1) As for the Pirrelli P-zeros - I would not touch them with a barge pole - these Michelins are fantastic - grip is incredible in the dry - I can't find out tommorrow in the wet when it chucks down as I will have to get a loan car.
I told one of the guys at Saab about getting 7,000 miles of wear when the tyres were just legal and he was gob smacked - these are the wrong tyres to supply for an aero - they don't grip as well as the Michelins- but if they are only gonna last 7-9000 miles - then that is the right way to p*ss off your customers - and well done Saab!- you have. That's an extra £300 on the price of a car!

2) As far as the Kerb goes - it was a parking bay - I am claiming against the private landlord where I work - he must be insured - I have plenty of good pictures to demonstrate that this parking bay is not fit to be used as one - and there are no warning signs and no disclaimer signs and we have not signed a lease for the premises yet - so no conditions can apply. The Owner has a duty towards people who pay for these parking bays so that they are fit for the purpose. As far as we can see they should in theory pay up - but after over 20 law suits in the last 10 years - it kinds of gets boring - I have a good hit rate - so I am going to take them on - I have legal insurance - so I will use it! The other cars that use this parking spaces are Porsches, 3 series, 5 Series and the likes - the Porsches have lower suspensions - and the claim would be thousands if they hit the kerb! If you don't park over the kerb - then the other cars cannot get it!

3) The alloy wheel - I am in two minds - the guys who did it works under contract for my brother's firm - so if I go for them I will do them good and proper. I have them bang to rights!
But they got real nasty - and they are a rough bunch!

I would advise anyone with alloys to get a digital camera and do the same to stop these pirates!

4) As far as the car goes - getting it fixed under Warranty - I am sure that they will - but after effectively what is two and a half months of my normal mileage the car has to be towed to a garage - that is just unreal! I am just hoping that it is not contaminated fuel or something like that - That will be hard to prove - so fingers crossed!

Combined with a whole load of other things with Saab last week - this has all happened at the wrong time!!

I have a £35,000 car - all I want to do is to drive it, enjoy it, listen to the CD and radio, use the Sat Nav and for the damn thing to work. Or should I pay more to do that? ... I don't think so!
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LOL you gits mocking my bad luck !

As for the head restraints the 5 series go high enough and another 4 inches higher! And they are electricly adjusted- the 93 goes higher than the 95 even! But on the good news front Saab in Sweden has now conceded that they can make them go higher in the 95!! I have some replacements on the way - they were due on Friday - but the guy from Saab never turned up!

As for the chipped Alloys - you will see mine on ebay soon! Chipped for extra speed - designed by computer - built by robots - and chipped by Cowboys! I would like to say Driven by something here - but I can't as the thing don't go!
Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]As far as the Kerb goes - it was a parking bay - I am claiming against the private landlord where I work - he must be insured [/qb][/b]
So you are saying that someone else should pay for your pranging your car when you were parking it?


Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]but after over 20 law suits in the last 10 years - it kinds of gets boring [/qb][/b]
No, really?
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Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]3) The alloy wheel - I am in two minds - the guys who did it works under contract for my brother's firm ... But they got real nasty - and they are a rough bunch!
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Remind me who your brother's firm is so I make sure I never use them for tyres (or indeed anything else if this is the type of subcontractor he uses)
No I did not prang it. The only way you can park in these bays is for the front of the car to overhang the kerb. If there is a hole in the bay and the kerb has been fixed badly so that the kerb sits another 4 or 5 inches higher - then it is inevitable that someone is going to strike it - the kirb has scuff marks all over it and there are even pieces of car bumper that have fallen off next to it! And if you are paying to lease a property and parking spaces, the owner has a duty towards the occupants in the same way that someone walking along a path should have a safe walk so that they don't break a leg or fall down a hole or something. If I lived in the USA I would now be rich!!

As far as the law suits go ..

I have sued GM about 2 or 3 times - I won every time - their defence was so poor they crumbled - but they stood their ground until the writs were served. As for the others I won about 18 of them, part won about two and had one struck out of court - but when all the witnesses were lying and other witnesses failed to turn up as pressure was put on them - then there was not much point continuing - but I cost the other party about £20k in costs - so I made my point!

It is sad that the only way to get justice these days is to sue. Take out a good insurance policy - if you have a case - then they will take it on! After the 3rd or 4th case you get used to it - so you can do it yourself in similar matters - but now I don't have the time so - I pass it to the lawyers again - or the insurance company. The strangest one was suing the Dutch police who ripped the front of my car off whilst trying to tow it - when they saw the damage they ran away!!! I only found out from passers by!
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Originally posted by fliptop (9-5 V6 AgaPower):
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Originally posted by Polaris:
[qb]3) The alloy wheel - I am in two minds - the guys who did it works under contract for my brother's firm ... But they got real nasty - and they are a rough bunch!
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Remind me who your brother's firm is so I make sure I never use them for tyres (or indeed anything else if this is the type of subcontractor he uses) [/qb][/b][/quote]I don't think I can mention them - but you have nothing to worry about - I am sure you live a long way away !!
I wish I hit your point and missed the Kerb!
The point is, if you knew this shower are such a bunch of plonkers, why use them? If your brother has any influence on them (as a customer) why not use that?

And while I'm at it, if the kerb is so high and the pothole so deep (and you can SEE that, it's what our eyes are for) then why not be more careful? Or maybe try reversing into the space, as the rear skirt is much higher than the front?

Tell you what though, if I tried to sue everyone that peed me off I'd never do anything else
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