Wives 9-3 2.8 Aero Convertible Coming On Monday ! ! !
Discussion
discodave said:
bought the wife a new 9-3 2.8 aero convertible in silver last month and have been advised its coming on monday (31st), just wondering if there is anything we should look out for when it comes ?
cheers in advance
cheers in advance
Er, a very expensive road tax day if you pick it up on the 31st and you are only one month off the reg change ... but then a month of open top motoring in the summer makes it worthwhile to not wait for the change I would guess.
Otherwise, what the Prof. said I would imagine. If you or the Mrs. have not driven a Saab top end turbo vehicle before you may find the low rev torque gets you moving faster than you would imagine without realising what has happened. It took me several weeks and a couple of surprises (at relatively low speeds and not pushing things) before I adjusted the the difference between my previous 3ltr engined cars and the 2.3 HOT Aero in my 9-5. I would imagine the 2.8 Aero 9-3 will have similar traits.
LongQ said:
discodave said:
bought the wife a new 9-3 2.8 aero convertible in silver last month and have been advised its coming on monday (31st), just wondering if there is anything we should look out for when it comes ?
cheers in advance
cheers in advance
Er, a very expensive road tax day if you pick it up on the 31st and you are only one month off the reg change ... but then a month of open top motoring in the summer makes it worthwhile to not wait for the change I would guess.
Otherwise, what the Prof. said I would imagine. If you or the Mrs. have not driven a Saab top end turbo vehicle before you may find the low rev torque gets you moving faster than you would imagine without realising what has happened. It took me several weeks and a couple of surprises (at relatively low speeds and not pushing things) before I adjusted the the difference between my previous 3ltr engined cars and the 2.3 HOT Aero in my 9-5. I would imagine the 2.8 Aero 9-3 will have similar traits.
i previously drove a saab 9-5 HOT AERO as a hired car ( strange but true ) and found the power control had to be thought about before take off
cheers for the comments
its arrived 
but not with the aero bodykit 
but we have contacted the saab garage and they were advised that we ARE happy with the car delived for just now untill further arrangments are made & they are willing to refund us the difference between the aero & the vector as it is their mistake
paying a visit to a family members today so will try and take a pic of it then
rgrds
but not with the aero bodykit but we have contacted the saab garage and they were advised that we ARE happy with the car delived for just now untill further arrangments are made & they are willing to refund us the difference between the aero & the vector as it is their mistake
paying a visit to a family members today so will try and take a pic of it then
rgrds
Edited by discodave on Sunday 30th July 13:43
The 2.8 Turbo is a cracking engine. We have it in the Vectra VXR. Run it on Super Unleaded if you can and just wait until it gets to around 7K miles. I was advised to really excersise the engine in the first 4K miles if I wanted it to be a quick car and I can confirm it is.
Our's is going next week to be replaced by a Boxster but there is no way in a straight line that the Boxster would have a chance of getting close to the 2.8 Vectra.
Our's is going next week to be replaced by a Boxster but there is no way in a straight line that the Boxster would have a chance of getting close to the 2.8 Vectra.
CatherineJ said:
Err I would be rejecting that straight away. There is a huge difference in performance between the 2.8 and the 1.8.
saab have been contacted & they are arranging OUR car to be delivered ASAP
but she is rather pi$$ed off
in the mean time she will have to make do with it as the alfa gt is gone
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