It's Back On The Channel! - £897 250,000 Mile Saab 9-5 Aero Update! 

I can only agree with comments below. Why not reach out to the Saab community online ? You will miss it when it’s gone. That engine is bulletproof - I agree, a magnificent looking car and one of the most elegant estates ever made. Think twice Blee!!

Great to see the Saab.

Value a car by what it offers you not what you can sell it for

I have nearly an identical car, although mine is an '03 with 171,000 miles on it. I paid $5000 for mine back in 2009. I've done a ton of work on mine and continue to do work, but it's a great highway cruising car and is really reliable for the most part, so I'm keeping mine until the engine explodes. Yours looks like it's in better shape than mine, plus, you have the nicer front bumper cover, I have the older style. I have rust in the backend under the car was well, but here in the Midwest USA, our version of MOT does not check under the car, so they don't care. I can't believe that all of your bushings in the front end of the vehicle wouldn't be worn out at that mileage. Your car looks like it has spent its life in a garage, it's a keeper.

Fix it!! a future classic. will only go up in value

Great to see the old barge back on the channel!

I'd save that, I love a bit of welding.

I have already repaired 2 of these and I have another 2 lined up for the repairs you are facing here. It is relatively easy to do and if you do it yourself it costs peanuts. I reckon each time I do one it costs about £50 for materials, rust treatment and paint. Once done the car will last years more.

It's such a good combination. Performance, comfort and can loads tons of stuff. Pretty cheap with regards to repairs! Keep Saabin'! You can't kill it ;-)

Mate, I have a suggestion, I own a 05 2,0 estate, how about I come to pick it up from the UK just before the next MOT expires and drive it to Eastern Europe where I live and then get it to 500K miles? My 2.0 has done 320 K miles and aiming to get at least 500K on the odometer since MOT here doesn't care much about the state of the subframe. This way I'll give the 95 a second life that it deserves!

HonestJohn are listing these as future classics. I’ve just picked up my 7th Saab, a 2005 9-5 saloon 2.3t, but it’s off to SaabFlight in Sussex for a transformation into Aero spec plus a stage 1 on top of that next week. Mine only had 34k miles on the clock when I bought it so it was a bit more than £895, but it’s such an amazing car. I love Saab’s anyway, but the 9-5 is really really good.

Keep it!

Keep her going if you can! You could end up putting more money into a replacement , possibly non Saab , with lower miles but give you grief. This car has been good to you, better the devil you know , than the devil you don't ! Love these Saabs have a 9-3 convertible 1999 myself. Cheers for the vid nice one!

I love Saab 9-5's as I have owned two of them. However, I think that although as good looking as the Saab estate is, my current car, an Alfa Romeo 159 ti sportwagon in red is a very handsome estate. That being said, I have my eye on getting an 04/05 9-5 aero - they are probably the best 9-5's out there.

Don't do it! I scrapped my Aero estate a few years ago when the clutch went and regretted ever since. I'd paid £400 for mine, it was an earlier one ( X plate ), but was as tidy as yours. These are already increasing in value and will only carrying on doing so. Look at 9000's and 900 and 9-3's.

I can understand not wanting to throw money at it but if you sold it for what you bought it for, someone will get a cheap motor and get the welding done for a couple hundred and get a couple more years plus out of it.

a future classic?

Your channel made me want to buy one that i should get by the end of next week. From my perspective you shouldnt get rid of it as i struggled hard to find one at decent price.

2020 is a weird year, never thought I'd see it go!

Loving the videos, out of curiosity what MPG do you get?

Patch it up with fiberglass and paint it ;)

Sell for parts, scrap the rest if you’ve got the means to do it

Donate it to a SAAB enthusiast? There's plenty of people on various Facebook groups that will hunt you down if you scrap it! Since SAABs demise, the very idea of scrapping them has become a no-no and yet there are still loads of fans that would gladly take it. Maybe make them promise to restore rather than break it for parts as it seems to be in good nick apart from the rear rust.

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Keep it!