Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING | |||
| 10/16/2010 | |||
| The stop light stops functioning intermittently. i replace the bulb and it sometimes works for a few days and then again, it stops working. i tried to buy the tail light socket, but they come up with a different part even though they search through my vin at an authorized parts retailer. i believe it is related to the recall campaign number 05v245000 but since my car was of a later model by one year, it missed the recall. i wouldn't have cared if i found an exact replacement part, but since they came up with a modified part at the store, it makes me think my car has the defective tail lights but the manufacturers tried to get away with it by not including that year's model in their recall to avoid another thousands of replacements. | |||
| 05/01/2008 | 105000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2003 saturn l200. while driving at any speed or even while the vehicle is in park, the headlights turn on and off, the gauges constantly flash on the instrument panel, the door locks will lock and unlock themselves, and the windows will roll down and back up automatically. the windows are currently inoperative due to this failure. whenever the contact drives the vehicle, he smells burning wires, but there is no smoke. he feels that the vehicle is extremely dangerous to drive. he took the vehicle to the dealer for inspection and they stated that the body control module was the cause of the failure. the contact did not get the vehicle repaired because he believes it should be covered under a recall due to the safety risk involved. the manufacturer stated that the owner was responsible for the repairs. the failure mileage was 105,000 and current mileage was 115,000. | |||
| 05/21/2008 | 47233 | 1 | |
| Sometimes would have a hard time starting the car or the car would not start at all. after about a week,the check engine light and passenger seat airbag light would come on. when these lights were on, the speedometer and tachometer did not work. shortly after that the engine lock light came on and then nothing worked. the defrost front and rear, a/c, heating control, interior lights, airbag failure light lit up, seat belt light lit up and the self locking for the doors did not engage when putting the car into gear. sometimes i would turn the car off and about a half an hour later, the exterior lights would come on all by themselves, sometimes draining the battery if i did not notice this. i felt totally unsafe driving the car when this would happen - i had no safety features to rely on and i did not even know if i would have a car that would run. i took the car to a saturn dealer and had the bcm (body control module) replaced. i also found out that saturn is having a problem with this and i have asked others that own similar saturns also experienced this problem. this was quite costly to replace approximately $600.00 (the cheapest around). others paid more for this repair than i did. *tr | |||
| 09/21/2005 | 2 | 09/10/2003 | |
| Dt: 2003 saturn l200. all of the lights on the vehicle cut on and off. the vehicle has not been to the dealership to be inspected. this has been happening for 2 days. the vehicle was being taken to the dealership. the consumer checked all of the fuses himself and not found any problem. the consumer found this was a common problem from other complaints. all of the lights; front, back, and interior lights flashed on and off.*ak | |||
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING - TURN SIGNAL - SWITCH | |||
| 09/23/2005 | 44000 | 1 | 06/28/2004 |
| Dt: while driving on september 23, 2005 there was smoking coming from the steering wheel. there was no fire. the consumer has not taken it in to be repaired. the person on the phone told the consumer that she thought it was a short in the turn signal switch or wiring. there was nothing leading up to the occurrence. *ak | |||