Steering Problems of SAAB 95

Tl- the contact owns 2003 SAAB 9-5. The contact stated that the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. And the vechicle is not part of the NHTSA campaign number.

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Have a 2011 9-5 aero and just hit 58k. Very recently I've been noticing the popping/thudding when driving away quickly with the wheel turned, when pulling away from a stop sign and turning left/right. I also can force the car to exhibit the binding/grinding deep noise when in first with the wheel turned almost at lock either right or left with very little throttle depression. Reading any SAAB forum I could, and speaking to dealers and reading service bulletins in relation to this car, all other SAAB vehicles with the haled 4. 0 system which debuted on the SAAB 9-3 turbox, it is very evident this is not a small amount of affected vehicles. From what it looks like, every owner of a SAAB that had the all wheel drive system provided by haldex has these catastrophic failures of the system causing the inability to drive once the system shuts itself off, or locks which could potentially leave owners stranded or cause the prop-shaft to bind, then lock at speed and cause the rear wheels to bind and hop and lock causing a potential accident. The dealers have admitted to the system having design flaws and updated parts and redesigned components have been released multiple times. If this is an admitted design flaw and potentially dangerous, it should be a recall as dealers are charging thousands and thousands of dollars to fix issues that are imminent and not at the fault of the owners. Quotes to fix this issue range from $3-7,000 and that is unacceptable. It needs to be recalled and covered for repairs for the owners of these vehicles. A simple search on xwd issues on google can bring up dozens of forum links with large counts of page numbers for each of complaining owners listing their issues and discrepancies and prices to fix this bogus issue caused by a flawed design.

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This car had a simultaneous failure involving the steering, xenon headlamps and power train, specifically the all wheel drive system. All systems need to be replaced but gm has not made replacement parts available, has not corrected production errors in current parts. Current parts on market fail with 10000 miles.

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I have owned a 2004 SAAB 9-5 sport combi wagon since 2006. Twice, over the last several years (2011, 2014), my husband and I have been on the highway and had an ignition switch incident where he was the driver and I was the passenger. In both incidents, I turned around to talk to my daughter (2011) and then daughters (2014) and inadvertently bumped the the key in the ignition with my knee. The ignition switch is located in the center of the car by the console. It only took a slight tap of my knee and my car shut off while going at speeds of 75-80 mph on the highway. Fortunately, both times my husband was able to put the car into neutral and get the car off to the side of the road.

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