I bought a 99 Viggen in January with 18K on the clock, milage confirmed via CarFax and DOT.
Well I got the engine warrenty mail from Saab a couple of weeks ago and seeing as the car now has eclipsed 24K I figured I would bring it to the dealer for the 20K service. Im good with a wrench and Im sure the service is just a inspection but I want to be sure the proper services show up on the cars history so when I sell it I can say it been well maintained and such.
Well a call to the dealership this morning resulted in being told that Saab goes more by years than milage and seeing how the car is 6 years old they want to do the full 5hr 60K service at a cost of $725. Ouch.
So what do you guys reccomend, its important that the car has the proper service history but at this mileage Im not sure its $725 important. Im assuming they do belts, serp and fluids seeing as I dont think it takes 5 hours to lift the car and poke around with a flashlight.
I plan on keeping the car for a couple years and doing some mods eventually but this is my daily driver so nothing too extreme. And at that point the engine extened warrenty is voided anyway.
What do you think?
Well I got the engine warrenty mail from Saab a couple of weeks ago and seeing as the car now has eclipsed 24K I figured I would bring it to the dealer for the 20K service. Im good with a wrench and Im sure the service is just a inspection but I want to be sure the proper services show up on the cars history so when I sell it I can say it been well maintained and such.
Well a call to the dealership this morning resulted in being told that Saab goes more by years than milage and seeing how the car is 6 years old they want to do the full 5hr 60K service at a cost of $725. Ouch.
So what do you guys reccomend, its important that the car has the proper service history but at this mileage Im not sure its $725 important. Im assuming they do belts, serp and fluids seeing as I dont think it takes 5 hours to lift the car and poke around with a flashlight.
I plan on keeping the car for a couple years and doing some mods eventually but this is my daily driver so nothing too extreme. And at that point the engine extened warrenty is voided anyway.
What do you think?