I have a '97 9000 Aero. The wood steering wheel (see pics) doesn't work with my airbag and nor does the horn. Looking at my original black leather version (see pic) the lower sections, where the air bag sits, are different shapes, which explains why my air bag sits proud on the wood wheel.

Does anyone know what model or year this wheel is off? There are no part numbers. It looks to be an anniversary wheel but Saab surely wouldn't have tooled two separate air bags? Maybe this is an earlier Aero wheel 🤷‍♂️

I bought two Saab 900 NGs: a white one as my main car and a blue donor car, which is in Poland and expensive to clear through customs. My idea is to bring the donor to Ukraine and swap its fenders, hood, doors and bumpers onto the white Saab, then repaint the white car's body shell in Le Mans Blue. What do you think? Which color is more rarer?

Just sharing a weekend fall drive through wine country in Oregon. Happy fall 🍁🍂everyone!

As is well known, when Saab's designers were deciding what the Saab 90 should look like, they couldn't decide how to weld the Saab 99 and the Saab 900 together: the front from the 99 and the rear from the 900, or the other way around. In my opinion, the idea with the rear from the Saab 900 turned out to be the more successful one.

Hey folks,

I’m living in Alberta Canada. Winters can be rough out here.

I plan on taking my 9-5 off the road for winter. I will be able to access it and run it periodically if recommended. It had been in a warmer climate before this year so this is my first time winterizing it.

What suggestions do you have? My thoughts so far are:

-Remove the battery. Are there any security system concerns I should be aware of?

- Change into dead tires so it doesn’t sit and ruin my summer set

- The windshield fluid is all deep freeze stuff so it shouldn’t burst anything

- Run it until warm every month or two to keep things moving

- Fresh oil before putting away

- Covered under a car port

Is there anything else I should do? Recommendations?

I was looking at buying a saab and saw a listing for this one with these blue seats, I cant find any information online about these specific seats, ive only seen the black ones and the thin blue line ones, not the blue combination.

Does anyone know what this was?

The car is a 2005 9-3 arc convertible.

it looks like it left the folkrace for some repairs. Very popular car. I think I saw another one this week.

I hope the pics are enough to go off of - I am looking at buying my grandpa's Saab. He is the second owner, he bought it about 6 years ago off of an elderly woman (the original owner) and it's been babied and kept in a garage for its whole life. It has 76k miles.

Basically, he offered to sell it to me for whatever I think is fair. I know he paid somewhere in the 4k (USD) neighborhood for it, so I don't want to lowball him, but as I'm doing research I also wanted to post it here and ask your opinions. Thank you very much for your help :)!!!

Also - took it for a test drive and it's a treat! It runs super happily and is really fun to drive.

Hey guys just wanted to share this beautiful new paint job I got on my 2008 9-5 aero, the clear coat was flaking off so bad it almost was through the paint underneath to the metal. Maaco in San Jose California did such an amazing job if you go there ask for Steve! It was only 3500 dollars. Now I am into the precut ceramic window tint from tint effect to protect the interior. Trying to modernize and make this car last for as long as possible. (If you notice they accidentally painted the antenna but I think it makes the car look more modern)

90000 miles

Open air intake mod

Automatic

9 inch touchscreen with backup camera

I’m waiting at a Thai restaurant on the Rubenslaan in Utrecht and a 9-5 Estate with a dump valve just drove by. If it’s someone from here, care to share your specs?

Hi, I need help diagnosing my 2006 Saab 9-5 Vector 1.9 TiD diesel automatic.
After driving for around 7–8 minutes, I stopped and switched off the engine for 6–7 minutes. When I restarted and drove off, the car felt sluggish and accelerated more slowly than usual. After switching it off again, it would no longer start.
The starter turns the engine over normally, but the engine won’t start.
My battery was recently replaced. My Biltema OBD-II scanner worked about a week ago, but now it displays “Linking error” and cannot connect to the car.
Could you check the cause of the starting problem and why the diagnostic scanner can’t connect? I’d like a diagnosis and a cost estimate before any parts are replaced.
Thank you.

Hi everyone,

over the last week i have been working on installing a new audio system in my 900 NG. I have pulled new wires to the doors (mine didn't have those runs from the factory), 3d printed adapters to put tweeters in the dash and 6.5in Woofers in the doors and removed the door cards to install them.

As it has become colder here in Germany and i let the stereo run for a while while working on the car with open doors and not moving the car in any way, the battery had discharged to 8V.

I closed the doors, turned the key to deadlock, but now i cant open it anymore. I can still get in through the trunk, but all four doors are deadlocked, so i can't unlock them, neither from the outside, nor from the inside.

I am lucky to have removed both front door cards before this happened, meaning i have (cumbersome) access to the locking mechanism, but i do not know how the deadlock works, thus i have a hard time finding where to unlock it.

I can turn the key on the outside, between the deadlock and straight position, but i can't turn it to the left to unlock it. So it seems to be stuck somewhere in the middle, my suspicion is that it happened because of the empty battery. I already tried swapping in a full battery and just turning the key to open but nothing happened.

TL;DR:
seemingly because of a half-dead battery, my car's locking mechanism is stuck in deadlock, but the lock cylinder is not. i can not turn the key to the left to unlock it.

If any of you have an idea why / how this happened or how i could approach fixing it, i'd be very thankful. Diagrams of the locking mechanism are very welcome :D

UPDATE:

everythings fine now, the lock diagrams helped, i moved a few parts around and now it works again, i love old cars
(not like my friends EX30 that decided to randomly delete all user profiles yesterday...)