Saab 9000 can't deal with the Nurburgring

This is a few clips of footage put together showing the death of my Saab 9000 engine. Breakdown company wouldn't bring the car home due to it being worth less than the cost of transporting it. So I drove it as far as it would go, a mere 40 miles, and then we towed it behind my mates BMW to the ferry terminal in Dunkerque. Once in Dover I got a rental car home and the break down company brought the Saab home a few days later.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• saab
• 9000
• nurburgring
• engine
• failure
• thrown
• con
• rod

[gnaloin]

Oil pump sucked air on the tight bend there and a conrod bearing got the initial damage. The bearing kept on grinding away and in the end it welded in the crank and snapped the conrod at about 1" below the pin and sent the rest of the conrod through cylinder skirt wall? :)

[Sindrey]

@gnaloin A very accurate account of what happend :-) Oil Surge

[928GTSR]

Wouldn't it have cost less to just find another tow company and have them take it home before the engine really went into a bad state? I'm sure you might have been able to save the block had you stopped as soon as you had heard the knocking.

[Sindrey]

Not atall, The cost of transporting the car back to the UK, if I'd of organised it myself, was 400euros. Then once the car was back home I'd of had to take the crank out, get it reground and buy new bearings. A £200+job easily. The price of a second hand engine, £150...

[skbbussines]

youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8m8gJNeG­A



[skbbussines]

You sure are a real dickhead . im sure that this is only ur own fault.. not that u put the pedal to the metal.. saab is a very endurable vehicle and u might want to look at this link to ask ur self the question is any other car manufacturer would be able to make a better car to be pushed to its limit for 100 000 kilometers straight.. and theres ur fact..

[DarkUserSnake]

Poor girl....she died on german soil.....least she died happy.. :<

Loved it when My dad and I ran our '98 9-5 Nordic around the Ring.....so much fun~

[Bluterus]

Saabs weren't exactly built for this that's maybe why she died but still good effort its the Nurburgring I would have given it a go too.

[TestECull]

@Sindrey Could have driven it back home if you backed off. Saab engines are difficult to kill. Still woulda needed a new engine but no tow bill necessary.

[DJBrennanHeart]

vieleicht mal eher die steuerketten ersetzen und dabei auch mal die kurbelwellenlagerschalen überprüfen kann man nämlich alles stauschen bei nem saab und nich gleich bei kaltem motor voll last fahren..... vollidiot......

[zezorb]

i got an 9000.. and i dont like to see this... hope my handle more 2 years.. :)

[junksaver1]

Poor 9000 =(