Other issues? Well... it's an Aero, but luckily not a super-duper loaded aero. It has nav, rain sense wipers, and auto xenon headlights which auto highbeam and point which way you are steering the car, (This is AWESOME), but NOT the heads-up display. These options relate to what sort of windshield it has. There are supposedly 5 different windshields for US model left hand drive cars... the reason I mention this? It has a cracked windshield. "authorized Saab service" searched by VIN says that they have 2 correct ones for this car in the Allentown warehouse. $1000. Safelite claims they have one too, for $400 installed but I am entirely suspicious that they do not know what they are talking about and are going to show up with the wrong windshield. We'll see on Monday I guess.
It also needs coil packs. Misfire when cold and at the torque peak. Got all 6 on the way. It also has a very odd thing where the nav memory module has developed a short-term memory fault. Apparently this is nearly universal NG-9-5 issue. The nav unit won't remember new settings, and when you shut down the car and re-start the radio will always be on the last thing it can remember (which is always the same thing)
But hey... Otherwise it's pretty good! It's as big as a pick-up truck, gets the same gas mileage as one but it zips when you put your foot down and it handles just super. I need to see about getting a plow for it.
As my Saab technician Jeff Shore said to me "Congratulations, you just bought the most complicated Saab ever built"
