Dt: contact purchased a saturn in march. She had problems getting it started within the first few weeks. 3 months later on 6-28-05 it stopped suddenly on the road. The contact had initially trouble to start the car. It took 3 tries to get it started. .she took vehicle back to the dealer, and they could not duplicate it. One month and one day later it happened again. It did start back right away then. It has been in the repair shop for 3 weeks, and they could not duplicate the problem. Saturn was supposed to come and look at the car, they never came. The contact was afraid to get in the car and drive it. The dealership provided the contact a loaner. The dealership had other dealerships come from the area to look at the car, and could not find anything. Saturn offered the contact an extended warranty , but she did not want the car. She did not know what good an extended warranty was it the vehicle quit on the highway.
2005 Saturn Ion electrical complaints
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Ignition problems, car will not start and then starts after a while. Dealer is blaming it on remote start.
Dt: relay van. The rear sliding doors intermittently open, and consumer is concerned if it is in an accident, consumer couldn't get children out. The dealer can not duplicate the problem, and have replaced the alternator with a higher amperage one. This helped with the lights dimming problem, but not the indicator alarm sounding or the rear door problem.
Dt: the car is losing power at 70mph and is shutting itself off. The car was purchased on june 3 and it was returned to the dealer on june 4 with this happening 4 times in less than 24 hours. The sales person said "stay there and I know what it is, it's happened before". The sales person did come and pick up the consumer. The sales person said that the ignition was defective and the consumer's keychain was at fault. The keychain weighed about an ounce or less. The dealership is in control of the vehicle at this point. There are no indicators lights coming on in the vehicle. It just loses power and dies. This is a 2005 saturn ion 2. The owner had a saturn ion 2 without anti-lock brakes and changed mind to upgrade to one with ABS, now saturn is not so eager to help consumer. The car is starting right back, after it quits.
Consumer complained about electrical problems. While driving and looking at the dashboard all the gauges shined, indicating that nothing was operating normally. The gas gauge/ speedometer, and battery meter, etc.
All dash gauges failed, including gas gauge, speedometer, odometer, etc. On at least two separate occaisions. Car was two weeks old to the day. My son (the owner/lessee) was attempting to take it from his work to the dealer less than a half mile away for "advice" when he was involved in accident that probably didn't contribute to the accident. However, it's important to note that when I called the dealer and let them know the situation with the dash was the reason he was returning the car, the salesman then informed me that "oh, yeah, those cars sometimes have a software problem in them, and while we had to wait a while to get a "fix", we now have one." so if they knew there was a problem, why didn't they fix it during the "dealer prep" stage? Or at least warn the consumer of this problem? We now have a 2 week old car with body damage and are awaiting word from our insurance on which body shop it should go to. But, in the meantime, we still have a car in need of a "software upgrade" even after it's fixed. I will be horrified to ever set foot in that car again, let alone know that this car is the primary transportation for my college-age son. The car has approx 500 miles on it now, less the mileage it had on it when we purchased it.
Upon driving the indicator lights illuminated the dashboard. Consumer stated that the fuel gauge did not indicate how much gas was in the vehicle. The speedometer failed. Consumer contacted saturn, they checked the vehicle three times but the problem recurred.
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