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June 6th, 2022, 01:21 PM
#821
Driver
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July 5th, 2022, 05:55 AM
#822
Administrator
Fun Saab things.
I need a roof rack to haul a kayak and/or a stand-up paddle board. My car doesn't have the long roof rails, just flip up panels to mount two cross bars.
Check Thule's website, the cross bars can be had, but are $550-$750 for the set. Yikes, and the kayak/sup carriers are about $250 each.
I spend the evening confirming that Saab bars exist, they must, right? They do! I found a Sportcombi for sale with the Saab cross bars on CarGurus. Then I pick through and search Saab product catalogs and finally find them, success!
The Saab cross bars are $155...and made by Thule. The Saab Kayak holder is $176.
Long live the Swedes.
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July 8th, 2022, 02:53 PM
#823
反重力
Yea went through that with the CR-V when I was looking for rails. It was either Chinese knock offs for 40, oem for 200 if I could find them, or Thule setup for like 700.
I went with the knock offs just because I am only doing it for looks anyway.
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July 8th, 2022, 03:34 PM
#824
Administrator
I looked on eBay and most of the results were non-loadbearing stick on rails.
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October 3rd, 2022, 04:59 AM
#825
Administrator
The Saab is never not fun.
Went down to Tennesse for some kayaking a few weeks ago. Despite being a little turbo 4 banger with a billboard on the roof it climbed mountains and cruised the interstate at 80+ just fine.
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October 3rd, 2022, 11:02 AM
#826
Driver
Love a good turbo 4 with midrange grunt for mountain passes. How much booost does that thing run?
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October 3rd, 2022, 11:39 AM
#827
Administrator
It's modest, something like 8lbs.
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October 3rd, 2022, 03:16 PM
#828
Driver
Less than I would have thought. The compression ratio must be decent. It's too old to be direct injected I imagine.
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October 3rd, 2022, 07:09 PM
#829
I *think* Isuzu did DI back in the early to mid 00's.
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October 4th, 2022, 06:17 PM
#830
Spiny beast
The Isuzu Axiom had it in 2004, while in Europe and Japan, Mitsubishi and others were doing gasoline DI as early as 1996.
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