Thanks for that. I think what needs to happen now (and it's something I expectedto do once I'd got a "feel" for the car and learned a bit more from great sites like this) is that I take it to the Canberra SAAB dealer to do a detailed diagnostic on the car so I have a baseline for fixing up anything else that's not quite right. Whatever's making the alert show up will be evident by specific codes I guess. I must admit trolling through reviews and forums doesn't leave you brimming with confidence about how healthy my wallet will be in the future and that's on a car that's picture perfect and still feels new at 103K kilometres. Maybe it's like new parents to be; they should definitely not read books on obsetrics ... In terms of forums and the like, naturally you're mainly going to read about problems that occur.