1996 SAAB 900 Cabriolet SE from UK and Ireland - Comments

The electric roof broke.

The fuel consumption is too high.

The cd autochanger is jammed.

The gearstick gear display keeps popping out.

This car looks fantastic.

I have lowered it by 60mm, and have 225 16 inch profile wheels all round.

It also has colour keyed bumpers and coloured keyed front grille.

I would say it's one of the nicest Saab Cabriolets I have seen.

However to drive is another story. Every pothole I can feel and the steering shakes.

The performance is adequate, but nothing special, I have tried to race a Subaru Impreza, but it left me for dead, also a Bentley Continental R did the same, and that wasnt even a GT!

But when the roof works and it's a sunny day I can get almost any girl I want.

Now, it should be made clear the major drawback of that generation of SAAB convertibles is their relative lack of rigidity. To put it otherwise, chopping off the roof never made life easier to any platform - let alone a SAAB 900 (or Vauxhall Cavalier whose underpinnings the 96 SAAB 900 shares- yes, it goes that back...). Note, also that wide low profile tires may look cool but they also put more strain to that poor (and already flexible) structure...

I think that the problem is that the SAAB convertible isn't a sports car, but as a top down cruiser its fine.

Lowering any car and fitting big alloys and low profile tyres will make it ride more harshly, especially on our rubbish UK roads!

I suspect the other problems may relate to increased vibration and harshness transmitting additional stress to the mechanical and electrical components on the vehicle.

You should have known that racing against Subaru's and Bently's would only leave you in the dust and embarassed.

Fancy Wheels won't make it go any faster (though I'm sure they look nice)

a.n. other 900 driver.

Has anyone got a cure for that nasty steering wheel shake

kenneth@zoom.co.uk.

Wheel balancing?

Racing a Scooby in a saab convertible, oh dear!