Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL | |||
| 09/27/2012 | 24220 | 1 | |
| Traveling on an interstate at 65 mph we heard a tone indicating something was wrong, steering became difficult and we noticed that the power steering indicator light was on. the power steering was gone and it became very hard to steer and was unable to quickly maneuver. we pulled over, turned off the car and then restarted it and the power steering came back on. same thing happened again after traveling a few miles. we were able to get home and now the power steering shuts down every few minutes. car is unsafe on public roads in regards to being able to make quick maneuvers and could lead to accidents and injuries. clearly a manufacturing problem not normal wear and tear. chev. & pont. cars with same equipment and complaints were recalled. saturns should be also. there is an open action number of ea11014. *tr | |||
| 09/27/2012 | 24220 | ||
| Traveling on an interstate at 65 mph we heard a tone indicating something was wrong, steering became difficult and we noticed that the power steering indicator light was on. the power steering was gone and it became very hard to steer and was unable to quickly maneuver. we pulled over, turned off the car and then restarted it and the power steering came back on. same thing happened again after traveling a few miles. we were able to get home and now the power steering shuts down every few minutes. car is unsafe on public roads in regards to being able to make quick maneuvers and could lead to accidents and injuries. clearly a manufacturing problem not normal wear and tear. chev. & pont. cars with same equipment and complaints were recalled. saturns should be also. there is an open action number of ea11014. | |||
| 08/08/2012 | 148158 | 1 | |
| Today 8/8/12, i jumped into my 2004 saturn ion at 5pm after work & immediately noticed that i could not turn my wheel as i exited the parking lot, i had to swerve hard to my right to by avoid a collision with two cars from the opposite direction. i was terrified! my display showed pwr str i had never seen that before, i left my car diagonally parked, since it would not move went for assistance, a passerby looked under my hood for a while then turned my car on and the display was back to mileage and my wheel was working fine!! i drove my car home and immediately started to do some research to find out what it could be and how i could fix it, i find out that their is a known problem with the power steering! i have not received any letters at all. my car has been reliable up until now. it has close to 150k mil (mileage is an estimate on this form) since this appears to be a gm problem, what are my options? thank you *tr | |||
| 08/08/2012 | 148158 | ||
| Today 8/8/12, i jumped into my 2004 saturn ion at 5pm after work & immediately noticed that i could not turn my wheel as i exited the parking lot, i had to swerve hard to my right to by avoid a collison with two cars from the opposite direction. i was terrified! my display showed pwr str i had never seen that before, i left my car diagonally parked, since it would not move went for assistance, a passerby looked under my hood for a while then turned my car on and the display was back to mileage and my wheel was working fine!! i drove my car home and immediatley started to do some research to find out what it could be and how i could fix it, i find out that their is a known problem with the power steering! i have not received any letters at all. my car has been reliable up until now. it has close to 150k mil (mileage is an estimate on this form) since this appears to be a gm problem, what are my options? thank you | |||
| 08/15/2011 | 108400 | ||
| While driving my saturn ion 2004 the power steering light in the dashboard came on while i was engaging in a curve on highway 15, i was barely able to control the vehicle no to crash on the concrete middle divider and had to immobilize the vehicle, stop the engine and restart it in order to get the power steering to work again. this has happen to me few time per year over the last 3 years but now i am afraid for my life and it is happening more and more frequently. | |||