stick70
Big dreams, medium skills
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2006
- Location
- North Carolina
Landed me a 1993 960 wagon this weekend. Bought it from a high school kid that used it has his first car. I did an autocheck that said this car has spent most of it's life in the Durham/Chapel Hill area, so it's funny it's returning to the same general area again. I've never had a 9 series before so I'm jumping into a bit of unknown here...but hey it's clean enough and I love big ol' wagons. Overall cosmetically it's very acceptable.
It's allegedly lowered on ipd springs with sways and a panhard rod. The car originally had nivomats so I'm not sure what rear springs are actually in there, but the nivomats are trash. There are service records showing ball joints and other assorted things replaced but that doesn't mean a whole lot currently. My god is this car clunky and bouncy to drive. It for sure needs struts/shocks, and probably all of the bushings as well. There's also what sounds like a driveshaft rub/vibration when accelerating in first gear, I guess I need to see what's up with that. Not sure how I'll adjust the pinion angle, but we'll find out. Anyways:
Remnants of a removed roof rack
I've gotta see if I can take those grills off and put the stock ones back on.
Typical, dog chewed the shift knob
So far it's only broken down once over the 12 hours I've owned it. It doesn't seem to have spark when it gets good and hot, starts misfiring, and cuts off. The previous owner said that the coil harness has been repaired, so I need to check out the power stages and see if it's one of them. Other things that don't work include the power antenna and sunroof. Overall pleased with the purchase.
740s still suck but this 960 is pretty cool.
It's allegedly lowered on ipd springs with sways and a panhard rod. The car originally had nivomats so I'm not sure what rear springs are actually in there, but the nivomats are trash. There are service records showing ball joints and other assorted things replaced but that doesn't mean a whole lot currently. My god is this car clunky and bouncy to drive. It for sure needs struts/shocks, and probably all of the bushings as well. There's also what sounds like a driveshaft rub/vibration when accelerating in first gear, I guess I need to see what's up with that. Not sure how I'll adjust the pinion angle, but we'll find out. Anyways:
Remnants of a removed roof rack
I've gotta see if I can take those grills off and put the stock ones back on.
Typical, dog chewed the shift knob
So far it's only broken down once over the 12 hours I've owned it. It doesn't seem to have spark when it gets good and hot, starts misfiring, and cuts off. The previous owner said that the coil harness has been repaired, so I need to check out the power stages and see if it's one of them. Other things that don't work include the power antenna and sunroof. Overall pleased with the purchase.
740s still suck but this 960 is pretty cool.
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