SAAB's Night Panel

[adamsfireworks]

"And ahh kinda useless"

[greenteacamo]

If I knew you, I probably would not like you.

[VooDooXII]

@greenteacamo

Oh sure you would.

[AWKman259]

You have to love the quirkiness of these cars. The fact that it is so different is what makes it so appealing.

[VooDooXII]

@AWKman259

That's one reason I regret selling the car. I love quirks like this. They really give the car some character.

[roadwraith86]

I live in sweden and went to mekanikschool. and hated saab just cus i loved volvo.. you know how that work :) but after been on a saab workshop I was turnd. thy are nice weird cars that you start to like. And later i was on a new volvo workshop and the new volvos are NOT mekanikfreindly

[casualgiraffe]

I dunno, I was driving in a snowstorm at night last week and turned my night panel on (2005 9-5 sportkombi). I found it alleviated that tunnel vision effect you get while driving in snow a bit, or at least it helped me focus.

[seriousbe]

Got the same feature on my 900 and it's useless.

[brbn93]

I love the car for its weirdness too! Especially that transforming cup holder. Got my friends head spinning when they first saw it in action. Too bad it doesn't want to hold their freakishly large Coke cup. Saab makes you feel like you are in a cockpit of a jet fighter, due to all the complicated buttons. Almost got into an accident by just tinkering with the illuminated buttons. Nevertheless, great car, just gotta watch out for the turbo though. Mad expensive to fix.

[xReventonx]

SAAB FTW!!!!! :D

[Rodolcort]

hahaha its awesome to hear the enthusiasm in the way u describe it.. im a volvo fan and starting to become a saab one..

[capitalistpigdogus]

Hmm. I wonder if my 2K's speedo has a dead bulb.. never had it over 75 with the lights on.

[VooDooXII]

@capitalistpigdogus

There is a separate bulb for that section of the speedometer, so it's possible.

[capitalistpigdogus]

@VooDooXII Hmm. Thanks. Honestly, never saw it do that on the 2008, but can't confirm if it does /anything/ like that on the 2K. Must be Tech-2 related. Don't recall that being an option, though.

[wowshiqptar]

@capitalistpigdogus in the setting on the controll thing you can choose were its illuminated up to. my full speed gauge is litup and the turbo gauge (costum) the rest is dim

[croc17046]

Good vid - nice demo

[EChid]

Two Questions:

How reliabable has this car been?

And are your steering wheel controls lit?

[VooDooXII]

The steering wheel controls are lit.

This car was hit-and-miss. The CD player stopped working but that was a simple fix, however it started devouring oil and coolant around 60,000 miles.

I no longer have the car. I regret selling it though.

[Pendragon1989]

@VooDooXII Same with my 1999 Saab 9-3. It will go through a full coolant in about 2 days. But you can't make it burn oil. It's got 137,000 miles on it. It's a great car

[SaraShanae]

STAY IN YOUR LANE! omg. this video gave me anxiety.

[VooDooXII]

Oh relax...I've never been in an accident. I'm a great driver!

[GunsOfThePhoenix]

I have one of the original SAAB 900SE 2.0 liters from 1996, and something interesting, my button says "Black Panel" instead of "Night Panel" like most of the later Saab's

[panchitoturbo]

They changed the name officially from "Black Panel" to "Night Panel"... I guess for marketing reasons...

[trikovich]

they used to "pimp up" rather than dim the lights

[halflifemasta]

way to leave a random ass comment at the end -have fun- with what

[VooDooXII]

Have fun...in life...in general. I don't know. I don't know why I said it either. Way to read into the most impertinent part of the video.

[halflifemasta]

lol thanks for noticing

[Gent1985]

I also have the night panel and I realy love it! It's very practical when driving at night, it's so much better for your eyes. The advantage of the night panel realy surprised me.

[VooDooXII]

Haha I find it more and more useful day by day...or night by night, as it were.

[xReventonx]

lol my family like saabs, we got another one today there so cool, and fast, and everything else,

[phantomloita]

useful when trying to line up a bombing run on the service station...

[SusanSally88]

i heard you sick much dick in your saab :ninja:

[VooDooXII]

That insult is way too specific to be from someone I don't know...haha who the hail is this?

[SusanSally88]

watch some of my videos and it may give you a pretty good idea. lol u should be able to tell by my cars.

[VooDooXII]

Really? Do you have an Aero model?

Mine's a 2.0T Aero, but it's gone all the way up to ~145 before. Don't know...an ECU reflash may help.

[trancegsi]

not useless at all. saab are one of the safest cars you can by, thats just little feature to support why.

dimmer can help your night vision, and stop disttractions etc etc.

[VooDooXII]

Hah, either way...I enjoy the car, and the feature's fun.