Horn failed without warning. *ak
2003 Saturn Ion electrical complaints
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The horn did not work all the time. The design for the horn, only allowed it to be used when the consumer's fingers were directly on the horn indicator symbol. *ak the dealer suggested that the horn worked as designed.
Operation of the vehicle horn is very difficult as the activation locations are not prominent enough to find when involved in an emergency situation. In fact I believe that the horn did not operate on one occasion when positive activation was achieved. This is a dangerous design. One that more than likely has or will result in an accident.
Consumer found it difficult to depress the horns button when needed due to its location. This made it impossible to warn other motorist in a emergency situation. Also, when accelerating on wet surface tires will spin but vehicle will not accelerate.
Bought a saturn 2003 ion 1 this past summer ,june 2003. It work just fine until colorado got its first cold spell, this is when the car started to act-up. The car will not start up in the early cold morrings. When I first try to start the car there is nothing, just a clicking sound. Then after trying for a while the car finally starts up, but it is a very rough start. I have taken the car to my saturn dealship for the 3rd time and today will be the fourth the same problem. The car will not start up in the early cold morrings. I am getting very tried of this. I hope with the fourth try the problem will be fixed. If not, you will hear from me again.
I own a 2003 saturn ion. The battery went dead today because my wife left the lights on by accident. When the battery in this model car becomes discharged two undesireable problems arise. I feel that both of them introduce safety concerns. First, the key won't come out of the ignition switch through normal means. Second, the car can't be moved! The gear shift lever remains in the park position. I feel that a car designed such that these two problems occur when the battery fails is a poor design. The instruction manual provided with the car makes no mention of these problems occuring with a dead battery. In order to jump a dead battery in a car it is often necessary to move the car I n order to jump the battery from another car. I feel having an intentional design in a car that prevents it from being moved by the owner creates a safety concern. Regarding the key situation, my wife left her entire set of keys in the car when they got stuck in the ignition switch. Many important keys were left in the car unattended. It could have made a bad situation much worse. It turns out that the instruction manual in the car discusses how to get stuck keys out of the ignition switch, but no mention is made in the book that keys will get stuck in the ignition switch when the battery goes dead. I spoke to the consumer complaint department at saturn regarding this concern, but it is not saturn's policy to respond to this type of customer complaint. Since I feel these two problems do have a safety impact, I decided to register this complaint with the federal safety agency.
In a panic situation, the owner was unable to locate the horn button due to the size and location. This caused a distraction, due to the consumer having to take her eyes off the road and look on the steering wheel to locate the horn button.*ak the consumer noted the driver's head rest was tilted too far forward, the problem was eventually corrected. *jb
I bought a saturn ion in early august of 2003. I have had 5 separate occasions where the vehicle has stalled out on me and had no control of the car what so ever! The latest time was at the interstate at 65 miles per hour with an eight wheeler truck right behind me. Had I not thought quick and put the car in neutral and restarted the car or else I would have been hit it the rear by a several ton vehicle. I could have been killed! The entire power to the car dies !! The steering column locks up and you the entire car "shuts down" and you are stuck in front of another car w/ only the prayer of restarting your saturn ion so that you are not killed! The first person I spoke with in the service department told me that he had heard of this in a "couple of other cars" the service manager claimed he had no knowledge of what the "first service technician was talking about." I am outraged that saturn said they would try to get the car to "duplicate" this problem for them. I have told them that it is not something that happens everyday or even every week. Their response was "we can't fix what we do not know is broken" I am going to ask that the car be returned to gmac which is the lean holder! I do not think this is a safe vehicle for myself and my small children. "I strongly discourage others from purchasing the saturn ion !!!! I feel as if I have been riding in a death trap!! *la outraged unfortunate saturn owner of winston-salem.
The front and rear turn signal light bulbs blew out 11 times. First the dealer told me the bulbs were bad, then too many amps for the turn signal circuit. They did some "conversion" 8 months ago and the bulbs blew out less frequent but still occurring. The driver front bulbs blew 3 weeks ago. The turn signal also malfunction whenever I plug the cell phone charger into the power outlet. I had many near accidents because of the turn signal.
Key always stuck in ignition, car doesn't start car door lock broken.
Electrical; door seals loose; car returned up to 3 times since purchase on 7/13/03. Saturn ion 3 coupe--turn signals burned out w/in one week of each other; requested check of electrical system. July 26, 2003 electrical system checked. Complained about door seal at same time & service dept did not check it out until they replaced the fuse box on july 31. Requested to return vehicle and was told "it would be fixed to my satisfaction". Door seal was not installed properly & I have to take the car back for a fourth time to get this repaired approximately one week from today.
My turn signals do not work in the front of my car due to a shortage or something and also my car shakes and looses power when I have my air conditioner on.
When the consumer plugged devices into the cigarette lighter the turn signal would not work.
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