Here are a few photos from the aero-kit project I tackled last summer. I sourced the aero panels from Kieran in UK. They were in very nice shape but I had them repainted in anthracite gray just to make them perfect. I also got the original Saab Airflow bumpers from Kie. They needed some serious TLC and I had to admit to myself that I did not have the tools to make them perfect myself - or the guts to pay someone else to make them perfect for me. So I made a deal with Mikko and traded the bumpers for the original aero bumper extensions which are pretty hard to find an darn expensive, too! So lots of stuff was shipped around Europe and ended up in my car... :)
It took about a week or so with the aero kit on that I realized the kit will have to be accompanied with an original Saab wheel design. Since I already had 16" rims I did not want to switch back to 15" original aero wheels which would have been easy to get hold of. Instead I made up my mind to go for the 16" aero rims. They are - if at all possible - even more difficult to find than the aero kit itself in a decent shape and for a reasonable price. With lots of luck I came across Graham's ad on the Saab Club of UK's site. He had for sale a set of brand-new 16" Super Aero II rims. The price was, though not cheap, reasonable. Thanks Graham for taking the time and trouble of shipping the rims all the way to Finland!
The rims are a fairly special model which is distinguished from the "ordinary" Super Aero rims by the exposed lug nuts. They came standard in the very last 9000 CSE models in 1998. I like the appearance of them very much, but that's my opinion. See for yourself, there are two photo shots of my car in its current shape up there. Thanks go to Edvin Pihlström for the photos.
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