Saab 9-5 share same parts as Vectra ?

Barr · 05-06-2010 11:08am #1

Hi All

I'm looking to buy rear swinging arms and links for a 2000 Saab 9-5 estate. The local auto factor says they have nothing listed for the SAAB but thought the Vectra mite be the same.

Could anyone advise if thy share the above parts ?

Thanks

Mycroft H · 05-06-2010 12:30pm

Barr wrote: »

Hi All

I'm looking to buy rear swinging arms and links for a 2000 Saab 9-5 estate. The local auto factor says they have nothing listed for the SAAB but thought the Vectra mite be the same.

Could anyo9ne advise if thy share the above parts ?

Thanks

No. As far as i know the 95 has a fancy multi link rear suspension thats slightly different to the one the vectra.

I am open to correction on this though :pac:

Go to a proper motor factors if they cant supply you Saab parts.

05-06-2010 12:34pm

Barr wrote: »

The local auto factor says they have nothing listed for the SAAB but thought the Vectra mite be the same.

The dude in the factors is a muppet tbh, if they were the same then the manufacturer would list them.

Tasmanian Devil · 05-06-2010 8:51pm

Have you tried a SAAB Dealer?

ShadowHearth · 05-06-2010 9:55pm

i thought only newer 9-3 shared same platform with vectra? 9-5 should be on its own, no?

Mr Benevolent · 05-06-2010 9:58pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

i thought only newer 9-3 shared same platform with vectra? 9-5 should be on its own, no?

Nope, the Vectra has been polluting SAAB's proud heritage *snigger* for the past 15 years.

bazz26 · 06-06-2010 1:25pm

Saab 9-5 uses the 1995 to 2002 Vectra platform afaik. Current 9-3 uses the 02 to 09 Vectra platform.

unkel · 06-06-2010 1:57pm

bazz26 wrote: »

Saab 9-5 uses the 1995 to 2002 Vectra platform afaik.

Saab 9-5 uses the '89 Vectra platform! :eek:

08-06-2010 12:11pm

I think 900 uses the '89 Vectra, 9-5 uses the "more advanced" :-) '96 platform.

OP, at least some of the rear bushings (the 4 small ones at the end of the trailing arm) are the same as in Vectra.

furtzy · 08-06-2010 12:28pm

The 9-5 shares some elements of the vectra b platform while the 9-3 shares quite a lot of the vectra c platform. I have used several suspension parts, discs and pads etc on the vectra using saab parts. They were identical just different part numbers

unkel · 08-06-2010 12:29pm

samih wrote: »

I think 900 uses the '89 Vectra, 9-5 uses the "more advanced" :-) '96 platform.

I can imagine the 9-5 was improved over the years, but in 2010 it still uses the GM2900 platform first used by the Vectra A in '88. The 9-3 also used this platform until the new model in '03, which used the much improved epsilon platform, but the 9-5 never switched over!

furtzy · 08-06-2010 12:33pm

unkel wrote: »

I can imagine the 9-5 was improved over the years, but in 2010 it still uses the GM2900 platform first used by the Vectra A in '88. The 9-3 also used this platform until the new model in '03, which used the much improved epsilon platform, but the 9-5 never switched over!

Isn't it a mixture of the old Vectra A platform and the vectra B suspension?

unkel · 08-06-2010 1:26pm

furtzy wrote: »

Isn't it a mixture of the old Vectra A platform and the vectra B suspension?

You could very well be right there - I only know the platform is very old and it wasn't even good when it went on sale 22 years ago

furtzy · 08-06-2010 1:43pm

unkel wrote: »

You could very well be right there - I only know the platform is very old and it wasn't even good when it went on sale 22 years ago

Yeah shocking that GM let it slide so badly. The 9-3 is referred to as a Vectra in a dinner jacket....guaranteed to piss off a 9-3 owner that

Saab 9-5 share same parts as Vectra ?

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