Congrats! And welcome. 

Welcome 

Thanks all.  I've done a few hours of reading on here and discovered the absolute worst thing I could do is take it to a SAAB dealer.  Coincidentally, that's also the worst thing you can do to non-Japanese SAABs.

The reason I wanted to take it in, as I normally do all of my maintenance myself, is that I'm new to Subarus and wanted an experienced eye to look over the whole thing and all the little noises.  Apparently the audible valve noise and excessive gear noise during deceleration in the low gears is normal.  It's getting close to the 90K mi/144K Km service and I'm mostly interested in new fluids all around, just not sure if it's worth ~$700.  Your thoughts? 

They can *&^% right off unscrewing my glove box for 0.5 hours to change the cabin air filter though; I can do that in the parking lot at Crappy Tire!

Out to lunch wrote:

They can *&^% right off unscrewing my glove box for 0.5 hours to change the cabin air filter though; I can do that in the parking lot at Crappy Tire!

Don't worry, when I had my 92-X the dealer couldn't even find my cabin air filter and claimed that my model didn't come with one! That was after me telling them that I thought that it was in behind the glove box.

Back home in my driveway I had the old filter out in five minutes!

Not to clutter the forums, I'm going to take the opportunity to introduce myself also.

I bought a 9.2x Linear last month and been babying it ever since. I bought it from a dealer, I guess that where the honor started because they were so incompetent and so diligent to just sale and not care of anything else for delivery.

Anyways, once it was in my hands, I did most of the preliminary maintenance stuff, starting with the oil change which looked like wasn't changed for 10k, air filter was black, and I'm not even joking.

I'm loving the car, I'll be honest. It has everything I need and she'll get the total love and care package from now on 
It is in my tradition to name all my cars, so this one's Abby 

I'm a rookie when it comes to Saabs and Subarus so I'll be reading through the forum for info that may help me throughout ownership of the ride.

Cheers, Alex.

Superchunk wrote:

We were going to name ours Wasaabi....get it?

It didn't stick though, now it's just the silver car.  She'll get a name as she gets a bit older I'm sure.

I think that one's taken by a saabnet member, got the plates, too.  But they're in Cali somewhere, so it's up for grabs.  I'm just going with 'Aero' for mine.  Nobody else I know drives a SAAB, so no confusion there.