When Did You First Visit Saturnalia? Before or After You Owned Your First Saturn?

[Charlie]

When did you first visit Saturnalia/SaturnFans.com? Was it before or after you owned your first Saturn?

Charlie

[unkle bik]

After.
I had already purchased my third. If I would have read about all the L-series problems here, I probably woldn't have purchased mine.

[GmG]

I first visited just over 3 years after I got my first Saturn, a 92 SL1.

George

[eRic 02sc2]

i would say after since i got my first saturn in 1992 and saturnalia/saturnfans didn't exist yet...

[PAGuy77]

It was a few years after my SL1 purchase, but before my Ion purchase. I was surfing the internet about Saturn information in general. The search yielded a few links to the threads here. I am glad I clicked on them....:)

[silverblueL200]

I lurked here for a year or two then signed up when I traded the SC1 on the L.

[swoker183]

after. found it when looking for info on saturn performance topics

[Privix]

After...

After buying my SL2 I wandering the board for awhile myself before joining.... I've had more fun since joining the board.:yes:

[SpiderWebb]

Before

Wanted to get as much information as I could before I drove off with my first new car.

[mikthehickNC]

before, then my dad bought me my car, coincidence??

[Galileo]

Originally posted by UNKLE BIK
After.
I had already purchased my third.
Me too! I had been a Saturn owner for 9 years when I found and joined SaturnFans.com... I'm on my 4th Saturn now (as of 09/17/04)... be sure to check out the new addition in my gallery!

[skijay]

I found it after while doing a search on Yahoo! for Saturn L series and Problems. I can not remember exactly what the criteria was.

[IndyVUE]

After purchasing the wife's AWD V6, and looking for accessories for it, I found SaturnFans.

Despite the beating the ION was getting, I LOVED the look of the QC3 and bought it anyway.

We've been glad since :D

[piney]

The 486DX was still a good computer when I got my first Saturn... and the Internet was almost unknown, Bill Gates was still just a millionaire and the Corvette only cost 31k new.

[SW2Muck]

After I bought my first SW2. I forget what made me come here, though.

[GR898SL2]

After purchasing my SL2. It was completely by accident that I happened upon the Saturnfans website and I'm glad I did.

:flag:

[Spazie]

I actually have another username on here where I think the only post I made was where I said I'm looking for a first gen SC2. Then I promptly forgot the password and never posted again until many many months later.

I stumbled across this site after I saw what became my dream car - a dark purple 96 SC2 - sitting in front of my brother's apartment when I was 14. I spent a long time looking around the streets and on the web for pictures that looked like this car. I had NO clue it was a Saturn, the only part I remembered was the "Twin Cam" on the tail light. Finally, I found out it was a Saturn, and started my search. Came across pictures of Eric 96SC2's 92 SC2 and figured out what model of a Saturn it was. And actually, I think it was a link on his webpage that brought me here, about two years before I had my driver's license. It progressed into an obsession.

On August 23, 2001, I got my first Saturn, a 94 SL1, which was my car through high school. Just a few days after I bought it, I became a member here again, and have been the infamous Spazie ever since. :yes:

You have all now heard my endearing and heart warming tale of the obsession with purple SC2s. And four years after I first saw one, I bought my dream car, and now she is my baby, the Katmobile. :D

[Galileo]

Originally posted by Spazie
IYou have all now heard my endearing and heart warming tale of the obsession with purple SC2s.
That story brought a tear to my eye...:cry: Who's going to play you in the movie version?

[eRic 02sc2]

Originally posted by Spazie

I stumbled across this site after I saw what became my dream car - a dark purple 96 SC2 - tail light. Finally, I found out it was a Saturn, and started my search. Came across pictures of Eric 96SC2's 92 SC2 and figured out what model of a Saturn it was. And actually, I think it was a link on his webpage that brought me here, about two years before I had my driver's license. It progressed into an obsession.

I feel really old now. thanks. ;)

[scorpio_e]

I found this site before. I did a lot of research before I bought my ION.

[Hiddenlites]

I think I came across this site shortly after I bought my SC2. If this was indeed the site I visited, I lurked around in here researching oil consumption problems on the S-series, and then realized I did not have a problem with my car.

Several months later I was looking at web pages of people that have made performance mods to their SC2s. A link on Lane's Saturn Car Audio & Performance Page (http://www57.pair.com/lane/) brought me to this site 11 months after purchasing my Saturn, and shortly after, I became a member.

I seem to remember reading information posted by wolfman before becoming a member, which was undoubtably during my oil consumption research. Before becoming a member here I also inquired about removing the interior door handles on my car on allexperts.com. I don't remember for sure who replied to my question, but I seem to think it was a volunteer with the screen name "Wolfman." My God! He's everywhere!

[nkyleft]

Before. I was planning on getting one in about a month and i was checking out all the saturn sites.

[madpogue]

Originally posted by piney
The 486DX was still a good computer when I got my first Saturn... and the Internet was almost unknown, Bill Gates was still just a millionaire and the Corvette only cost 31k new. And the nose-picking guy in your avatar was still guv'ner of a banana "republic" (or was he still just the owner of a mediocre team of a sport about which he probably knew just about nothing?).

Oh, after, in my case. Just a week or so ago. Catching up on some, er, deferred maintenance (engine, coolant, muffler, rear wiper, etc), and googling for advice/info, this joint popped up.

[IONgirl03]

I found this site after. Saturn owners are such a great community. Im so happy that I bought into this family. Im on my 2nd saturn the 1st being a 97 SL1 ok car got me through a couple years till I bought my 03 ION3. Now that's my true baby!

[Evil_Oppie]

Just before I ordered my Ion.

[cabo5150]

I found it after my '97 SC2 was a few years old googling 'Saturn Performance'!
Was there even an internet in 1997?

[kinless]

Before.

I found this site in late 2002/early 2003. I didn't "join" at the time, as I was just reading the occasional articles that popped up every now and then. I didn't get involved until January 2004 when I had my sights set on a new car by the end of the year. It also helped my researching and whatnot.

When I started the process of getting my 2005 L300, my sales lady, assuming I was just an "average car browser," was blown away at all the stuff I knew about Saturn and all the models, because of reading everything at Saturnalia. She wanted to keep me in her back pocket. :D

[cdp326]

now that you have a purple sc2, spazie, do you really care if your sl1 gets fixed? just a thought...

[Bsmith]

For me it was after. Like several of you guys/gals I was looking for things to do to my 95SC2. Found serveral Saturn sites. Joined a few. I rarely if ever hit the other sites. The population there just isn't as civil and helpful.

[Cap138]

Originally posted by piney
The 486DX was still a good computer when I got my first Saturn... and the Internet was almost unknown, Bill Gates was still just a millionaire and the Corvette only cost 31k new.

Classic stuff piney...when I got my first Saturn, the Pentium III 600 MHz was a good buy (after rebates for a 3 yr internet service contract with a company called Compuserve), I was considering buying a 1.3 MP digital camera for $400+, and Al Gore was running against one of those Bush sons for the presidency...

I found Saturnalia when I was looking for some accesories to my newly bought 2000 SL1, but I didn't find the forum section and it's great host of members until early 2003 when I was looking for info about Saturn's new Ion.

[geartooth94]

before

I remember stumbling on the home page and thought to myself this site is crap! It was because most of the front page links weren't working.

I was looking to get out of my Olds Cutlass Calais, and I was looking at my uncle's 1994 SL2 5spd. I thought I would never get a Saturn because the engine was so small. "1.9L 4 cylinder"! I remember thinking to myself! I wanted V-6. Then gas prices skyrocketed and even the 26 mpg I had with the 2.5L 4 cylinder engine in the Olds was getting expensive.

It wasn't until 2 years later that I bought my uncle's Saturn for $1500 and I was set. A few months later I came by here again and registered for an account. I think I was having some minor squeaking noises and it ended up needing the belt and tensioner replaced. I knew, because of this site, how much to expect to pay at the dealer.

[Dimundave911]

After

I owned my SC1 for about 3 years before I stumbled onto this site, not really sure how I ended up here. But im glad I did!

[quasar]

Many years after. I bought my first in Jan. 98.

[swzine]

As someone else pointed out in the L forum - the people who came here before buying are very unlikely to be L owners. Our forum is known for complaints :(

[hsv sc2]

after The Saturn was a "gift" from my niece. Promised I'd take good care of it, so i came here to see what I was up against. It's a nice little 97sc2/5sp. Everything here has been helpful, especially the side marker blinkiing mod.

[Specialist]

I found this site before I purchased a new Saturn....

[Old Bob]

Before. I visited here often for a couple of months to see what everybody thought of the Saturn.

[beachkeefes]

The same day I bought my VUE I brought home several Saturnalia print-outs that Saturn of Huntington Beach had on display.

[ChgoBlues]

After. Was the site even around in 1994?

[saturnowner2001]

After both of my Saturns.

[saturnowner2001]

That story brought a tear to my eye...:cry: Who's going to play you in the movie version?

MOre likely "Tori Spelling" that b*tch gets all the roles you know...ha ha!!
I love the "Scream" movies.

[kvngwynth]

After. :usa:

[FL ION BY]

After. But I came here researching the new ION in 2003, then bought one. I had always liked Saturn products and was unknowingly a Saturnfan, but upon my purchase of the 03 ION3 I became an official Saturnfan.

[SaturnVLN]

I first visited Saturnalia after I bought my '97 SL1 in 2000, but did not sign up until I bought my '01 SL2 last month.

[thermal_dragoon]

before, bought my SC2 but signed up for saturnalia 2 weex before

[rgnelson]

I didn't even own a computer that had a modem when I purchased my first Saturn!

[patcal]

The afternoon I bought my 99 I came here to check things out while I was thinking of buying it. After some reading I went back to the dealer & bought it.