2000 Saab 9-5 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 140 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Electrical system67 (47.9%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2000–2003.
• Brakes19 (13.6%)
• Fuel system15 (10.7%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2001–2005.
• Engine7 (5.0%)
• Exhaust & emissions control6 (4.3%)
• Heating & air conditioning6 (4.3%)

Other / uncategorized: 1 classifications (0.7%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,112 records, model years 1999–2011) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and air bags (restraint system).
• Manufacturer communications (2,910 records, model years 1999–2012) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 92reports included a mileage
• 82,498average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1999 162 records for 1999 162
2. 2000 184 records for 2000 184
3. 2001 168 records for 2001 168
4. 2002 140 records for 2002 140
5. 2003 136 records for 2003 136
6. 2004 106 records for 2004 106
7. 2005 127 records for 2005 127
8. 2006 183 records for 2006 183
9. 2007 194 records for 2007 194
10. 2008 213 records for 2008 213
11. 2009 458 records for 2009 458
12. 2010 524 records for 2010 524
13. 2011 132 records for 2011 132
14. 2012 125 records for 2012 125

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 3mention a crash
• 5mention a fire
• 4mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 3
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 58
• Investigations NHTSA 1
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 3
• Owner complaints NHTSA 119

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