Used car guide · 1971–1984

Saab 99 buying guide: what to check

What goes wrong on a used Saab 99, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides and what to check before you buy one.

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Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

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What usually goes wrong with a Saab 99?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Saab 99 in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully.

Looking at a Saab 99?

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score