Small tip for any bolt you are about to hammer. Put the nut back on just a little bit so it covers the threads, then you go as wild on it as you want without any worries of damaging it 🙂
just to clarify to all people, the suspension settles as fast as you lower the car to the ground and drive it down your driveway. And it never really gets any lower its only allt the buchings and springs that hit all the right places. but the springs never changes or gets bad if it doesnt brakes in one spot
Those rear spring rubber isolators tend to wear thru and then you get to enjoy the squeak squeak squeak of the coil grinding against aluminum with every big bump. I ended up ordering new ones and she is nice and quiet again. Love upgrading my little linear.
Curious to know how they're doing 1 year later? Still good? I heard the B6s are usually with regular springs while the B8s are just shortened versions of the B6 for lowering springs.
Just had suspension work done a couple years ago (badly needed struts). So not doing this again, but it's still interesting to see in detail from start-to-finish. Also, great camera work here!
Michigan winter, Michigan roads... literally sitting in the garage put the '07 9-3 in reverse and heard that familiar BANG! and the $1,000 repair bill that comes with it. 180k miles and this will be my 4th set of front springs. Factory springs got me to 80k. 'OEM' replacements every 25k since like clockwork.
@@Frosty05 That's when you don't live in a rust belt. In that case you are wrestling one of the three bolts of whatever you are undoing for half an hour and then it falls down.
My 9-3 had a stiff ride from day one. It still has a stiff ride at 49k miles so I may be ok. Great to know options. Thanks for posting👍 Hope progress is being made on your Audi
I have the Eibach lowering springs and Bilstein shocks on my 02 9-3 SE. One thing to watch out for with lower stiffer springs is that the front sway bar may be too stiff and you can lose grip around corners because it impairs the front suspension from acting independently. I had this problem until I switched to the thinner front sway bar from the Viggen.
I like the stance on it. Coilovers aren't always the answer for infinite adjustability. I put them on my Mazda3 hatch, and the rear - at the highest setting - leaves almost no "gap", so I'm forced to put the front down equally (they could be set a full inch higher than the rear, for some reason) and the ride is pretty rough.
Good content! I have to do my suspension and not sure I want sport or stick with a touring option. Thanks for the tip on eSaabparts. I usually use eeuroparts but saabparts seems to have a better option in terms of suspension 'kits' so you don't have ti figure out all the parts. FYI, maptun is out of stock in the kit you installed.
I'm confident that I've built more 9-3 suspension kits than anyone other than someone who worked on the assembly line. If you want a suspension kit built to perfection, try an esaabparts kit :) If you like B6s, try the Koni Special Actives! Very comparable, although I do prefer Konis across the board. If you want comfort -- Bilstein B4 + Standard Chassis. It you want sporty -- Koni Special Active + Sport Chassis. I really don't see a reason to ever use B6s to be honest. They are more expensive and ride worse than Konis. B8s work if you are doing lowering springs, but if that is the case you don't care about comfort anyways! Bilstein B4 or Koni Special Active are really the only 2 options in my mind.
@@esaabparts6127 Just rebuilt my aero 2005 convertibles suspension with B4s. Replacing 2nd hand B6s and much prefer the ride comfort. Maybe not as tight in the bends but UK roads are poor so the B4s are far superior 👍🏻
Those rear shock mounts tend to corrode and fracture in the salt belt states. Every 9-3 I have owned has had that problem, so it is best to just order new ones when it is shock time.
I’m kind of thinking about putting Bilstein (“sport”) dampers on my S60, not quite sure when or which set I’m going to go for. I put regular, none sport Bilstein dampers in the back of my V50, after one of the upper rear damper mounts failed on a road trip 3-4 hours away from home, we limped it around and then back home. I ordered the mounts started to take it a part, spent an hour on the lower bolt, finally got it out, but it was stuck in the dampers bushing. So i tried to separate them and ended up separating the bushing from the damper, so new dampers it was. I probably should do something about the brakes on my S60 first though, took the car for a “spirited drive” with Studded winter tires (Nokian Hakkapeliitta 8 in the front and 9 in the back), which definitely has a negative effect on braking, so I probably should take a similarly “spirited drive” with the summer set before I decide, not really sure if I should start with a new set of front disks and performance brake pads or if I should hunt down a set for a R or get a “BBK”.
Oh great job. Very interesting! It's good that you continue to make videos about the Saab. Thank you!! Did the suspension become stiff after the replacement?
Good video very informative 👍 just wondering wouldn't it be possible to just remove the old bracket and put the brake line to the bracket that comes on the new strut instead of cutting that bracket off
A honest question Jacob, if I ship my car to Arizona from Gothenburg Sweden and I take in on a hotel we can fix my cars suspension and springs? I will pay you for the problem. :) Edit: "It's the Army SAAB Viggelin."
I had to replace the swaybar links on my 40k mile Aero! Thank God they're cheap, they should be considered a 40k-60k mile service item, seriously. I swear, if you have a 9-3 NG check them, unless you just changed them I bet they're bad 😐🤣😑
I have a question about ordering parts from MapTunParts. I want to order Bilstein B6 Absorbers for my generation 1 2001 9-3 SE, On the website it doesn’t say if it’s just 1 shock absorber. I wanna make sure if it’s a pair for $104 or just 1.
