Saab

Visitied my local garage on Friday. They agreeed that servo assistance has failed. Following the servo vacuum pipe from the manifold reveals that the one-way valve is located exactly where battery acid spray wrecked my vacuum pipes. Hopefully replacing this pipe and valve will fix the problem. I also fitted a new battery at a … Read more

I hadn’t thought about the testing the warning light bulbs so have been outside turning the ignition on and off. With ignition on, the display in the bottom right hand corner comes up with the ABS, Battery and Handbrake warnings. After a second the ABS warning disapears. Some way right of the handbrake warning should … Read more

I have done some more testing of the servo. Before starting the car I pressed the pedal numerous times – it was fairly hard and may have become more so. I then started the car while pressing the pedal and it did indeed move downwards slightly. I drove the car for a bit and the … Read more

Visited my local autoparts store who can provide a FIAMM battery for £48 – should do the job but they have none in until Friday. As I drove home I had an idea about my brake problem. Upon reaching my road which slopes slightly downhill I slowed right down and turned the engine off. As … Read more

I have been in touch with technical support at EBC brakes regarding their Redstuff pads. Here is the information I received from a few e-mails. Redstuff pads are unsuitable for trackdays and they do not recommend it They only recommend yellowstuff for trackdays And directed me to www.ebcbrakes.com – where it did indeed say “Fast … Read more

The car is suffering from the trackday. Brakes first : As stated in the previous post they faded a bit on the track. From what I remember they were ok on the drive home. However now they have seriously limited stopping power. I can’t get the wheels to lock, and even gentle stops require plenty … Read more

A few more photos from the trackday, taken by /john and Scaero

Sunday was the 2006 Saab trackday at Croft in North Yorkshire. It’s a long drive up there on Saturday, especially if you have already driven to Oxford and back that morning, but the traffic was fine and it was quite a nice route and the car managed a healthy 36mpg. I had switched to my … Read more

Had the car serviced at WMSS on Friday, so another wander around Erdington. Went to the 11am showing of “Silent Hill”. This film is ok, but I am sure there are better things to watch. Had the whole screen to myself though. The car was ok – oil and filter change so have now used … Read more

Three topics for today’s post… Firstly, I finally got round to removing the hands-free phone kit that have been in my car for years. There are now some screw holes in the passenger footwell, but it’s better than the messy kit that preceeded it. There was sufficient space to hide the cables which saved me … Read more