Saab

Britannia rescue have sorted transport of my Saab to West Midland Saab Specialists They normally only transport it up to 10 miles, and after that it is £1/mile. I talked them up to 12 miles, but then I have a further 36 miles each way to pay, so an extra £72. The truck arrived within … Read more

Well, it had to happen sometime… After paying for breakdown cover for 9 years, I have finally used it. Drive back from Llandow was fine, drive to Gloucester was fine, but drive back wasn’t 🙁 First thing I noticed was that the air-con wasn’t blowing cold. Quick check of the gauges, temperature is right up … Read more

A good time was had by all at Llandow. Even the chap who slid his BMW sideways and backwards into a tire wall seemed happy. He had been pushing v.hard, and when he was behind me for a bit I was only able to get away slowly, despite having more than 2 times the power…. … Read more

It took 40 mins to swap to my older set of wheels and tyres. These are Bridgestone Potenza S03 tyres on my second set of Aero alloy wheels. The tyres are 4 years old, and have spent the last year in the garage, so are hopefully ok. They are much more work than the newer … Read more

Last night and this morning I put my car on a diet. No need for rear seats, parcel shelf, spare wheel, jack, and a few other bits and pieces. Results of the diet are listed below, everything in kg: Small Seat Base 6.9 Large seat Base 9.0 Big Seat Back 12.9 Small Seat Back 8.2 … Read more

Once again I am joining the Supra owners for a Trackday at Llandow. Since the Saab was coming up for its MOT, I thought it best to get this done early, to check the car was fine, and also to get the brake fluid changed. The fluid had only been in for a year, but … Read more

Google Analytics should now be working for this site, so I can see accurately how many people actually read this… Hence this post is really a ‘bump’ to show up on your RSS feeds etc. I wonder if RSS feeds work since you may be able to read this without visiting the site. If you … Read more

The blog is now running on the latest version of WordPress, thanks to assistance from a colleague of mine who knows about these things… Hopefully this means people won’t be able to corrupt the posts with hundreds of spam links as kept happening to latest oil and filter change post. As for the Saab, it’s … Read more

I am a bit late posting this, but Saturday 29th November was the Saab’s latest oil and filter change. The 5W40 Mobil 1 had been in since May, a whole 6 months, which included the Ring trip and Llandow trackday, but limited other driving. Went over to Steve’s who had kindly offered to help with … Read more

Went to Centre Gravity yesterday for a talk on suspension and car setup. This was organised through UKSaabs, as can be seen here Steve (who organised this year’s Ring and Llandow trips) had taken his fast Supra here earlier in the year. He wasn’t impressed with the handling of this car when he got it, … Read more