Does anyone regularly hit the Night Display button to lengthen the screen
life on the SID etc? Is there any advantage to turning all those lights in
the "aircraft cockpit" off?

Rich

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:28:39 -0800, "Richard Sauer"
<chongkil (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote:

If it's a 9-5 your SID will go on the blink right after the 3yr
warranty is up, Night Panel or not. In fact mine behaves on a frosty
morning and misbehaves on a hot sunny day. I don't think I've ever
seen an old Saab with dim SID. Their plugs will do for them long
before any burnout IMHO.

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Colum Mylod <cmylod (AT) bigfoot (DOT) comREMOVE> wrote:
I hope I won't draw the wrath of the Saab gremlins by saying so, but my '02
9-5 Aero Wagon is coming up on 5 years old, and so far no problems with the
SID.

"Richard Sauer" <chongkil (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

Kinda. When the SID is cool, more pixels work...

Yes, there's less distraction at night.

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On Feb 26, 8:28 am, "Richard Sauer" <chong... (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote:
I've owned 3 saabs. my 99 9-3 has had the same panel with no
problem. my wife's 2001 9-5 se yes the one with the Saturn (or so it
seems) v6 engine had to have the panel replaced after only a couple
years (under warranty). the other saab is just too new. we got rid
of the 01

Richard Sauer wrote:

bit as I lived out of town and did a lot of highway commuting. When
dark (fairly good chunk of my commute for a good portion of the year at
the time) it really did reduce the amount of distraction. Between the
night panel and keeping things dimmer anyway, it was easy to concentrate
on the road and not have your eyes drawn down to this or that.

I keep the panel lights adjusted so they are not brighter than what's
seen out the windshield anyway....keeps from ruining your night vision.

Michael

Richard Sauer wrote:
is extremely poor design of the internal cable - after some time the
solder points come apart and you gradually lose the pixels...

Gary Fritz schrieb:
in. There the second, sometimes the third "row" in SID is of or a little
bit darker. But additionally: Some segments in the temp-display are
going off, too!!!

Greetz Chris

"Christoph Kessler" <zeepeekah (AT) gmx (DOT) de> wrote in message
Third engine?? I wonder if there are any 9-5 v6s with 200,000
miles -original engine, original SID, original DI cassette. I'm at 90,000
miles on my 2000-all original stuff.....I suppose the ax will fall any day
now. Reading you guys on SAABs is like reading the Gospel of St. John...a
sort of automotive apocalypse. "Behold a Pale SAAB....

Rich