# Service bulletin 641

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 602369
- Published by NHTSA: 1998\-10\-29
- Manufacturer's number: 641
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-07\-10
- NHTSA component: STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

COMPLAINTS REGARDING NOISY OR HARD TO OPERATE TELESCOPIC STEERING ACTION. \*YC

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering

## Vehicles listed

- 1999 SAAB 9\-3
- 1994 to 1998 SAAB 900

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [1996046](/recalls/tc/1996046.md), 1996-03-18: Steering
- [96V008000](/recalls/nhtsa/96V008000.md), 1996-01-23: STEERING: STEERING WHEEL/HANDLE BAR

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [6442196](/bulletins/614096.md), 2000-09-28, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. CUSTOMER SATISFACTION CAMPAIGN 482 REGARDING NOISE FROM POWER STEERING SYSTEM. THE CHECK VALVE MOUNTED INSIDE THE POWER STEERING BANJO BOLT MAY LOOSEN AND CREATE POWER STEERING NOISE. OTHER POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS ARE HIGH FLUID LEVEL IN THE FLUID RESERVOIR, OR THAT THE FLUID GETS ABNORMALLY WARM ON VEHICLES WITHIN CERTAIN VIN RANGES. \*TT
- [6442196ED2](/bulletins/614093.md), 2000-09-28, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. SUBJECT REGARDING UPDATED CAMPAIGN INSTRUCTIONS FOR CUSTOMER SATISFICATION CAMPAIGN 482 ON NOISE FROM POWER STEERING SYSTEM. THE CHECK VALVE MOUNTED INSIDE THE POWER STEERING BANJO BOLT MAY LOOSEN AND CREATE POWER STEERING NOISE. OTHER POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS ARE HIGH FLUID LEVEL IN THE FLUID RESERVOIR, OR THAT THE FLUID GETS ABNORMALLY WARM ON VEHICLES WITHIN CERTAIN VIN RANGES. \*TT
- [644](/bulletins/608081.md), 1999-11-02, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. INFORMATION ADDRESSING COMPLAINTS OF EXCESSIVE NOISE, LOW POWER ASSIST, LEAKAGE, OR OVERHEATING OF THE POWER STEERING SYSTEM. \*TT
- [3832046](/bulletins/607547.md), 1999-09-28, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE. SUBJECT ON REPLACING THE ANTI\-THEFT SYSTEM SIREN. \*TT
- [3832046](/bulletins/602955.md), 1999-01-21, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE. REPLACING ANTI \- THEFT SYSTEM SIREN FOR MODELS WITHIN VIN X2000001 \- X2004200 AND MODELS WITHIN VIN X7000001 \- X7001033. \*YC
- [05/950580](/bulletins/44075.md), 1995-11-01, Service bulletin: STEERING: STEERING WHEEL/HANDLE BAR. SQUEAKING STEERING COLUMN. \*TW

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