The brake lights illuminate randomly during the operation of the vehicle. I will be driving on the highway at night and can see a reflection in my rearview mirror that my top brake light is illuminated for a majority of the trip and cars behind me believe that I am braking and will try to speed up past me despite my car traveling at the speed limit. Additionally, when the brake lights come on, it disengages the cruise control feature as the car tends to believe that I am braking. I bought the car in may, 2011, started noticing that the cruise control feature stopped working but didn't think much of it. Then a friend was driving behind me and asked why I was braking the entire time we were driving. I brought it to the original dealership where it was purchased in july 2011 and brought it back on two separate occasions. The dealership could not repair it thinking it was a brakelight switch, then they tried to replace the cruise control. I then brought it to a gm dealership in august 2011 and they repaired it. The repair lasted for about a year, until it started occurring again in sept. 2012. I brought it to a local repair shop and their repairs lasted until february 2013 when it started happening again. I am unsure who to take it to because I do not want to have to pay for this a third time for an issue that never seems to be fixed and makes me feel unsafe on the road.
2008 Saturn Aura lights complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2008 saturn aura. The contact stated that the brake lights illuminated independently without the brakes being engaged. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician was unable to diagnose the failure. As a precaution, the mechanic replaced the brake switch however, the remedy failed to repair the problem. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not further repaired. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 84,000 and the current mileage was 85,000.
I have a 2008 saturn aura xe. While driving, I noticed that occasionally the brake lights (all 3) would illuminate when the brake pedal was not pressed and they would occasionally not illuminate when the brake pedal was pressed.
Was driving on freeway with cruise control on then suddenly the cruise control disengaged. When I looked in the rear view mirror I noticed that my 3rd brake light was coming on by itself and staying on and I was not pressing brake. Brakes come on and stay on when not pressing brake pedal and turn off when brake pedal is pressed. Makes other cars behind me think I'm braking when I'm not and when I do brake it looks as if I'm not braking. Risk getting rear ended because of this. Safety issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 saturn aura. The contact stated that while driving 25 MPH, the brake lights were illuminated even though the brake pedal was not depressed. The contact also stated that the brake lights stopped illuminating once the brake pedal was engaged. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer and the switch stop lamp was replaced. The failure continued. The vehicle was not taken back for additional repairs. The failure mileage was 66,000.
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