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In defense of 1993

posted by  Lilitchpin on  Sun Jul 3 11:46 CST 2005
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As the owner of a 93 850 and a 94 855 and a 88 245, yes I've had my troubles but I would say the 93 is not that much different the the 94 in parts cost or trouble. And the 245 is better then both for parts, reliability and ease of maint.

Generally speaking if a 93 is still running it has probably had its serious problems fixed or it was one of the good ones. I communte 110 miles one way to work and I really depend on having a reliable car.

At 300,000 miles my 93 is currently giving 31 MPG highway beating the 30 MPG on the manual tranny 94 and well over the 24 MPG of the 245.

The tranny did go on the 93 at 287,000 miles - however about 5k mile previous my 17 yr old was driving when the tranny line to the radiator went and he had pumped out over half the fluid before he realized what happened. So I think that had more to do with it.

So while I would agree that its not a bad ideas to avoid 93s, they aren't as bad as some say!






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