Thankyou for the welcomes.
I have been lurking (reading) for some months now looking for the 'right one' to turn up at the right price.
This is one of the friendliest forums about, UK Saabs being another.
I have a penchant for cleaning (some like to say 'detailing' these days) and I have to start with a decent base, and this one has been looked after.
I was looking for a 2001 model with the hard surface buttons, but this one isn't criminal, and the recent thread on swapping buttons from an A4 air con unit took me over the edge into buying this car.
I want to bring her up to a better standard and the items below are either worn, broken or degraded substantially.
So I do need a few pieces, the later Aero wiper kit, a fuel cap release button, two wheel centre caps, rear number plate light units, a headlamp switch to start with.
But the price paid allows for these things (I think).
One biggie at the moment is that one seat folded down and lifted out easily enough, but then....
doesn't want to latch into the floor, the back rest not being allowed up!
So if all the sellers of five seat A2's think theirs are rare (according to many of the adverts out there) my three seater must be verging on the extinct.
Any ideas for this issue?
It seems to me that the ball bearings are not shooting out to hold the seat pegs in the floor, all it does is bounce back up on the springs.
Thanks in advance.
Nick.
P.S. Just remembered it also has the removable rear cup holders / bin. (I really was lucky finding this one) Anyone want to guess at the price paid?