I vote Aeros!

 

Yea those wheels are nice but I think they would look better on a older saab I think the style of the car is ahead of the style of the rims. Btw my second car ever was that card twin it was a f* ING tank .. looks good either way thanks for the memories

 

Did yours have the blue leather interior, too? :vomit:

 

Sadly no it did not

 

Aeros of course

 

I think the diamond spokes would be better suited to a c900.. But they don't look horrible on that 9k.

Props on uncommon wheels!

In the end though... I vote aeros.

 

AEROS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i vote for other.

specifically some borbets lol

 

Qft:th_MySaab900Like:

 

I vote for your garage, looks pretty nice!

 

Thanks! One of the main reasons I bought the house: 1200 sqft garage.

Sadly, the garage is only so clean because I moved (almost) everything out... gotta be completely out of there be the end of the month. I still don't have a place to park the CD yet, but I'm sure I'll work something out.

The new place doesn't have as much garage/shop space, which is why I've been stripping/parting/selling 9000's for the last six months.

 

Update: found a set of Super Aeros with tires locally for $180.

I love Craigslist.

 

I love Craigslist.

Can't put that any better myself

 

Not a bad deal. Is that pic of your car or the one they came off of?

 

It's the '91 CD Turbo mentioned above.

There has been a lot of progress on it in the last couple of weeks... I have been working to correct any flaw we run across.

Water pump and thermostat are next... then headliner and door panels.

 

Are the headliners shaped any different from the hatchback models. I've never actually had the pleasure of driving or being inside a CD model 9000 before. I think my next addition to my collection of 9000's is gonna be a CD or CDE. Mix it up a bit, all I've ever had was hatchback Saabs.

 

Are the headliners shaped any different from the hatchback models.

I'm not sure. When I pull the headliner, I'll snap a few pictures with dimensions.

 

Update: took some pictures this morning

 

Shes pretty.. she is going to love getting spoiled with the aero door panels

 

Silver paint and Aeros look awesome on Saab 9000s of any year. Can't remember, is it a manual or auto?

 

It's an auto. I normally avoid them but this car is amazingly rust free, came with a thick stack of records, and the right price.

The guy that I bought it from said it had a bad head gasket. It actually had a bad heater core. Lol.

I've already replaced core and blower motor... Water pump is just starting to leak, so Im gonna replace it and the rest of the cooling system for good measure: heater hoses, radiator hoses, thermostat, different thermoswitch, expansion tank cap.

I bought some suede and I'm going to try to re-cover the door panels. I'm still not sure what will happen to this car... I never cared for CDs before but it's really growing on me!

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This is now a build thread.

Since I was unable to find a replacement blue seat, I decided to try to refurbish them. I collected a lot of product and did a lot of experimenting. I ended up using Leatherique Rejuvenating Oil and Pristine Clean. SEM Leather/Vinyl Prep. SEM Leather/Vinyl Filler, Leatherique Crack Filler. Local Auto Paint shop matched the color of the leather and put it in an aerosol can.

I cut the "Bridge of Weir" tag off of the headrest to use as a sample. The paint matched the sample perfectly... however, the seats were a little bit lighter/faded. Lesson learned!

So far, so good. If I had to do it over, it would take 1/4 of the time. And the results would be a lot better. But, i'm happy with the improvement.

Before

After

I'm not happy with the gloss, so I'm gonna hit the seat with SEM Texture and then re-paint. The passenger seat will also get a coat, but doesn't need any repair.

 

My carpet cleaner broke when I was using it, so I kludged together a DIY extractor. I cut the clear nozzle/wand end off of the broken carpet cleaner and duct taped it to the shop vac hose. I then run hot water into a pump sprayer like you would use in a garden.

Fleet Farm didn't have Simple Green, so I tried Jungle Jake. It's not a good carpet cleaner... I need to find some real carpet cleaner juice, I guess.

 

Wow. Thats an impressive improvement.

 

Just sprayed passenger seat.

Sat down at computer to order a respirator... really shouldn't have painted without one. :redface:

 

A couple shots of the bolster after I sprayed with SEM texture and re-sprayed the color coat.

 

That looks great.. What did you use