2000 Saab Aero

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the tires. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Tires2
000
Fuel System, Gasoline › Fuel Injection System › Fuel Rail1
000
Electrical System1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Tires
Filed May 18, 2014CT

I AM WRITING TO REPORT THE HIGH FAILURE RATE OF THE SIDEWALLS OF CONTINENTAL EXTREMECONTACT DWS ALL-SEASON TIRE - 225/45R17 91W. WITHIN A YEAR OF BUYING FOUR (4) NEW SETS OF THESE TIRES, THREE (3) OF THEM HAVE ALREADY FAILED. NOTICEABLY, ALL THE FAILURES STARTED OUT AS A BULGE IN THE SIDEWALL. IF THESE BULGING WENT UNDETECTED THEY WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN FATAL BLOW OUT WHILES DRIVING. I HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THESE BULGING TO COMPANY WHERE I PURCHASED THESE TIRES AND DID NOT GET ANY HELP SINCE THEY BLAME IT ON ME ON HITTING POTHOLES AND THAT ALL TIRES WILL DO THAT. BUT THAT IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH. I HAVE RESEARCHED THIS PROBLEM/ISSUE ON THE INTERNET AND REALIZED THAT I'M NOT ALONE. *JS

Electrical System
Filed Jun 11, 2011130,000 milesMN

MY 2000 SAAB 9-5 AERO WAGON HAS A PROBLEM OF OCCASIONALLY NOT STARTING. YOU CAN TUNE THE IGNITION SWITCH AND POWER COMES ON BUT THE ENGINE WILL NOT TURN OVER. IF YOU ALLOW IT TO SIT AWHILE, THEN IT SEEMS TO START. I REPLACED THE CRANKSHAFT SENSOR, BUT IT STILL DOES THIS. I NOTICED THERE MAY HAVE BEEN RECALLS. *TR

Fuel System, Gasoline › Fuel Injection System › Fuel Rail
Filed Jul 26, 200550,000 milesMN

SAAB 95 HAS BAD DI CASSETTE UNIT THAT MAY CAUSE FIRE (QUOTE FROM DEALER), AND HAS CAUSED STALLING ON OTHER CARS (QUOTE FROM DEALER). SOFTWARE FIX WAS AVAILABLE BUT NO MADE AVAILABLE UNTIL AFTER FAILURE, AND EXPENSIVE REPAIR

Tires
Filed Sep 18, 2000NY

THREE OF THE ORIGINAL MICHELIN MXM NOO6 TIRES ON THE VEHICLE HAVE GONE FLAT ON SEPARATE OCCASIONS. *MJS

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200111010Routine
2000 — this page4000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.