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1997 Saab 900 Steering problems

Owners have filed 1 complaint about the 1997 Saab 900's steering with NHTSA - 5% of all its complaints, most recently on April 20, 2005. Loss of power steering, stiff or loose steering, wandering, column and rack problems.

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Steering complaints

SteeringBrakesElectrical system

1997 Saab 900 se turbo 2.0, Car began to stall, and would only restart once brought to a complete stop and the keys removed. Stalling continued randomly at high or low speeds. Very dangerous when it stalled at high speeds - the power steering cut out, power and abs brakes - it was as if the key had been removed and all power cut to the car.*Ak faulty ignition switch (electrical portion below keys) required replacement, stalling fixed. Car basically thought the keys were being removed (the electrical contacts...

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on the ignition switch were bad and would cut on and off). ~$400 After parts and labor to replace switch, had to be done immediatelly due to high risk of a dangerous failure at high speeds.

Filed Incident Steering · Service brakes, hydraulic · Electrical systemNHTSA 10118144

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