SAAB 900 8 Valve Official Service Manual: 1981-1988 [Paperback]

Bentley Publishers (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Bentley Publishers (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0837603102
• ISBN-13: 978-0837603100
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,490,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1950, Bentley Publishers has helped professionals and do-it-yourself mechanics by publishing highly detailed automotive manuals and time-saving service guides. We started by reprinting and distributing hard-to-find British car manuals, such as Austin-Healey, MG, and Triumph. Today we offer a full line of technical automotive reference information for Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen and many other vehicles.

Everything that goes into a Bentley manual - from developing the outline, tearing down a car, authoring the repair information, taking our own photography, to meticulously disassembling the vehicle (and putting it back together again!) - is done by our team of Technical Editors right here in our Cambridge, Massachusetts office.

In authoring our manuals, our approach has been to go for the details, resulting in books that may look intimidating, but are easy to use. More detail and less "averaging of facts" leads to less guess work when you are working on a car.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Bently Bible!, January 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: SAAB 900 8 Valve Official Service Manual: 1981-1988 (Paperback)

This book is a must-have for any Saab owner who even thinks about doing any repair or maintenance work. More complete than other publisher's manuals. The one drawback, and I think this is common in an book of this type, is when you see the words "assembly is the opposite of disassembly" instead of a step by step procedure. But, this book contains info, specs, step-by-step directions, wiring diagrams, photos and drawings, etc for anything you'd need to do to your saab, except possibly rebuilding the tranny!

PS - The reviewer from Villanova, PA commented: "The firing order of the spark plug wires on the distributor - it seems to have an image from the 8 valve engine - not the 16 valve." I'd like to point out that this book is INTENDED for the 8-valve version of the classic 900, NOT the 16-valve versions - as the name implies. Thus, this diagram is correct. Bently publishes a DIFFERENT version of this book for the 16-valve cars, that has the correct diagram for those cars.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Saab repair Book, July 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: SAAB 900 8 Valve Official Service Manual: 1981-1988 (Paperback)

This is the best and easiest Saab repair book. This has easy to read wiring diagrams post 85. This gem stays in my car all the time. Just in case.

5.0 out of 5 stars service manual review, September 20, 2005

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Clay A. Wells - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAAB 900 8 Valve Official Service Manual: 1981-1988 (Paperback)

I now have three manuals for my 83 SAAB, this one is the only one I use.
Clay